[Webteam] the Squeak board's recommendation for the web team, 2008-03-19

[Janko Mivšek]

Hi Brad,

Thank you for your warm welcome!

Yes, content is our main concern, that's why our "users" see and expect 
from us and that's what we need to provide them in a time we have and it 
is always short. Here comes also my idea to extend content maintenance 
duties to at least all teams, so that for instance a release team will 
be responsible to keep up-to-date the downloads section. Duty of web 
team will then be more a coordination and specially the new incentives 
to improve the website.

As you said, our website is a special one and to show a real Squeak 
strength we need to run it on Squeak. I think we all agree to that 
point. What we don't yet agree is a technology to use. And as you are 
all aware a "competition" is going right now. Well, so far so good, both 
contending communities will at the end have a better product, so I 
currently don't see a problem on that. And because I am part of of one 
side I'll also try to provide the best possible solution on our 
technology. For you to decide later, which way to go. I think that's 
most fair way to go.

Best regards
JAnko

Brad Fuller wrote:
> Welcome aboard Janko! And thanks for all the work you've done showing Aida.
> 
> The most important job is making sure content is updated in a timely
> manner. There are dedicated people on the team  - we just have little
> time to update the content, let alone fix lengthy pages. There's lots
> to do on the site to bring it up to date. But, I must say, that it's
> come a long way.
> 
> I want to state that I stand by my statement that I believe we should
> continue utilizing Smalltalk as the engine to the website. (I also
> want to point out that I didn't see that the SqF concluded that Aida
> should be utilized. I think that's up to us.) There are lots of great
> website engines that have the capabilities that would work just fine
> for our needs - easy to deploy and easy keep up to date (Mambo/Joomla
> comes to mind.) But, we are a special website. We represent a
> community of people that believe Smalltalk, and Squeak in particular,
> is a great development and deployment environment. The community's
> goals are the promotion and enhancement of Squeak, among many others.
> Utilizing another engine does not promote these goals, it detracts
> from it. I think it's a shame that we would not use Smalltalk in this
> endeavor, to show visitors as well as old-timers, that we walk the
> talk.
> 
> brad
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