Dear Squeakers,

I'm writing this to follow up our recent effort to get Squeak By Example 
Slashdotted. Unless somebody has evidence to the contrary, I think our 
effort to get Slashdotted is -- for now -- at an end. I made the PR Team 
request on Wednesday. At least five people did submit the story to Slashdot. 
The status of my submission was 'pending' for two days, until Friday. Then 
it was rejected. I'm assuming that the others have also been rejected.

My impression of this is that the editors did not know what to do with the 
story and so left it in the Firehose section to see what kind of reaction 
the story had on the Slashdot forums. There was not a great deal of forum 
activity for the story, and so I think they took that as an indication that 
they could pass the story over.

That's OK. One Slashdoting does not a new future for Squeak make. What I 
think is most important here is how positive and willing the Squeak 
community was to take this idea seriously. Nobody thought trying to get 
Slashdotted was a waste of time. It is my impression that people in the 
Squeak community are ready for a higher profile. If the community starts to 
think in this way, and this is something that Squeakers want, then we can 
make it happen over time.

Chris Cunnington
PR Team leader