[squeak-dev] Sunday Squeakers (was: Fwd: ServerDirectory example login is dead)

John-Reed Maffeo jrmaffeo at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 02:11:07 UTC 2018


Well I guess that is me too, except these days, my effort is not limited to
Sundays ;-)

- jrm

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 6:30 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:48:56PM -0700, John-Reed Maffeo wrote:
> > Hmmm... Did I miss the memo? Is "Sunday Squeaker" a new role in the
> "Great
> > Chain of Squeakers"? something between noob and Knight of the Square
> > Bracket?
> >
> > Let me know and I will update the WackyWiki ;-)
>
> I think it is a very old role. A Sunday Squeaker is someone who enjoys
> working or playing with Squeak with a nice fresh pot of good coffee at
> hand on a relaxing Sunday morning or afternoon.
>
> I have always thought of myself as a Sunday Squeaker, but I guess I'm not
> sure if anyone ever put out the memo. After all, that would require more
> initiative than someone like me would ever be likely to muster on a Sunday.
>
> Just in case it turns out to be me who accidentally introduced the term
> "Sunday Squeaker", I want to note for the historical record that I would
> have been inspired by the late great Ken Willard who for many years wrote
> my favorite column in the "Model Airplane News" or "Radio Control Modeler"
> magazine (one of those, I don't quite remember which). Ken was a committed
> amateur enthusiast, and he inspired me when I was a kid and probably still
> subliminally inspires me today.
>
> Reference: https://www.modelaircraft.org/files/WillardKen.pdf
>
> Dave
>
> >
> > -jrm
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 4:13 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:57:09AM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> > > > The ideal solution to this must surely be a working demo that
> connects
> > > to our own site?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes for sure, files.squeak.org seems like the obvious thing to use as
> > > an example. I also think that an ideal solution is going to require a
> > > bit of work on somebody's part, because that ServerDirectory hierarchy
> > > needs some love. Commits to the inbox would be welcome, but maybe hold
> > > off until after the 5.2 release to move changes to trunk.
> > >
> > > This would be a great "Sunday Squeaker" project. Any takers?
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> >
>
>
>
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