Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> I think he was spot on.  If you want Squeak to be taken seriously as a
> development platform, you need to find people like me who can take an open
> source product and provide all the infrastructure around it (tutorials,
> courses, books, trainings), and find a way to be financially self-supporting.
> 
> For success in the marketplace, you need:
> 
> * a stable usable working product
> * expectation of responsiveness to bug fixes and enhancement requests
> * documentation (user, developer, maintenance)
> * after-market support: conferences, trainings, books, tutorials
> * consulting and contracting companies
> * job boards to indicate a marketplace of human resources
> * user groups (real or virtual)
> * manager acceptance (requires press releases and other publicity)
> * active solicitation of visible large "design wins" (like OLPC and Qwaq)
> 
> If Squeak has all that, Squeak will succeed.  Fail any of those,
> and Squeak will become "just another interesting project".

Assuming that you're not planning to solve all of the above issues 
single-handedly yourself, what do you think needs to happen to address 
the above and how would you approach it?

Cheers,
   - Andreas