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Sounds like we have some expertise here. So what do we have to offer
those general communities? Can we "sell" them Swiki's, or anything else
we already have? is anyone in their lists, and knows what they need?

Daniel

Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@texoma.net> wrote:
> I agree general communities are better. No need for direct confrontation 
> in any of the other language groups. The people of interest in those 
> groups will also read general community sites. I think that we need to 
> be relatively inclusive of general communities as Squeak is so 
> multiplatform. *nix is very open source and an easy target, but I 
> believe we should also inform and educate the Win and Mac camps, too.
> 
> I believe that there is no need for being confrontational. We will do 
> well enough being informational.
> 
> Jimmie Houchin
> 
> Cees de Groot wrote:
> >  <danielv@netvision.net.il> said:
> > 
> >>Great. I'd suggest to make ourselves visible to Python and Ruby people.
> >>They might be attracted, since the languages are relatively similar. 
> >>
> > 
> > Yeah, but you must be careful not to tread on long toes and incite language
> > flame wars. So it's probably wiser to stick to the general community:
> > - SEUL project (www.seul.org), especially the educational subproject and
> >   the spin-off (IIRC) schoolforge.net;
> > - Freshmeat, Avogato, Kuro5hin, Slashdot, Linux News, ...;
> > - Whysmalltalk, STIC, goodstart, ...
> > - c.o.l.announce, c.l.smalltalk;
> > etcetera. 
> 
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