[squeak-dev] Squeak People (was: Time to Vote!)

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 09:11:38 UTC 2018


2018-02-04 2:01 GMT+01:00 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:

> On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 06:01:22PM -0300, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
> > Eliot,
> >
> > > ?? ?? Jeremy's thoughtful message below prompts me to suggest
> > > that we add two pages to Squeak.org, one for the election and
> > > another for members of the community to add mini bios with
> > > optional links to more extensive information, similar to the Pharo
> > > contributors list at??https://pharo.org/about.
> >
> > Squeak information has always been divided among different sites, like
> > squeak.org, the swiki, squeaksource, the bug system, squeak news and
> > there was one called Squeak People. The last one had mini bios (though
> > the swiki does too) and a blog. It also implemented a "trust" system
> > with the idea of using this to control the project after "Squeak
> > Central" had gone away and before the Squeak Oversight Board was
> > created.
> >
> > Eventually the site went away and though there was an overlap with what
> > we still have I think it has left a major hole in our community
> > resources.
> >
> > -- Jecel
> >
>
> I had forgotten about "Squeak people" but here is the link to a
> swiki page about it:
>
>    http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/8
>
> This is page number 8 on the swiki, so it must be of fairly ancient
> provenance. IIRC there was also an actual web site for "squeak people"
> but I do not remember any details.
>
> For me it is interesting to follow a few of the links on this swiki page.
> There is a listing of "Who's Where" that shows three people in Michigan,
> USA. I am one of the three, but I have never met the other two, both
> of whom apparently lived in the city of Ann Arbor at the time of the
> "Squeak people" listings. I now live in Ann Arbor myself, but I still
> have never met or spoken with any other Squeakers aside from other
> members of the Squeak oversight board who I now know from our video
> conference board meetings.
>
> Dave
>
> Hi Dave,
unfortunately, http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/8.history shows a serious drop
of interest after 2005...

Nicolas
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