[Squeakfoundation]Order of business ...

[Jimmie Houchin]

I don't know about expertise. ;)
I have some opinions and many ideas and I may have kissed the Blarney 
Stone early in life. :)

I have been part of the c.s.mac* communities, c.l.python, zope, long 
time reader and subscriber to LWN.

I am not a professional programmer, nor do I play one on TV.
I am merely a very high level end user. And I view Squeak through such 
eyes. I know what I want and have seen others want as end users.

I see Squeak as an enabling technology for people at all levels. There 
is no "Operating Environment" or development technology more enabling 
and more open for all users than Squeak. JMHO. :)

I have many app ideas I want to build in Squeak, because of the many 
virtues Squeak brings to the table. I am teaching my 14 year old son 
Squeak. I hope as Squeak matures to have apps that the rest of my family 
use in Squeak.

I am willing to volunteer my expertise towards whatever direction is 
deemed best.

Thanks,

Jimmie Houchin



danielv@netvision.net.il wrote:
> 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.