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ghoetker

Re: Catalog statistics (Who know this projects?)

Many thanks to Esteban for starting this effort and to everyone who has contributed. As a newish member of the community, the lack of such descriptions creates a huge barrier. Not so much that I need to know what "FlyingMongoose" does, but the presence of so many any documented projects in the catalog makes me feel like I must be "missing" a big part of the Pharo picture. It gives an unwelcoming face to one of the most welcoming communities I've encountered in the software world.

So, extra encouragement to those pitching in and thanks again.

Glenn Hoetker
ghoetker@me.com
http://hoetker.faculty.asu.edu

ghoetker

Re: Catalog statistics (Who know this projects?)

In reply to this post by EstebanLM

Many thanks to Esteban for starting this effort and to everyone who has contributed. As a newish member of the community, the lack of such descriptions creates a huge barrier. Not so much that I need to know what "FlyingMongoose" does, but the presence of so many documented projects in the catalog makes me feel like I must be "missing" a big part of the Pharo picture. It gives an unwelcoming face to one of the most welcoming communities I've encountered in the software world.

So, extra encouragement to those pitching in and thanks again.

Glenn Hoetker
ghoetker@me.com
http://hoetker.faculty.asu.edu

Stephane Ducasse-3

Re: Catalog statistics (Who know this projects?)

Thanks for the encouragement.
I would love to have a crawler that automatically validates
distribution where projects available in the distribution are
validated (tests green, ...)
but we always find something more important to do.

Stef

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:05 PM, ghoetker <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Many thanks to Esteban for starting this effort and to everyone who has
> contributed. As a newish member of the community, the lack of such
> descriptions creates a huge barrier. Not so much that I need to know what
> "FlyingMongoose" does, but the presence of so many documented projects in
> the catalog makes me feel like I must be "missing" a big part of the Pharo
> picture. It gives an unwelcoming face to one of the most welcoming
> communities I've encountered in the software world.
>
> So, extra encouragement to those pitching in and thanks again.
>
>
>
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> Glenn Hoetker
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> http://hoetker.faculty.asu.edu
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kilon.alios

Re: Catalog statistics (Who know this projects?)

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Unfortunately making something beginner friendly is A LOT of work, its indeed super important but for most people, which is logical, getting the code to work first is the no 1 priority. Indeed as a beginner you dont see even 0.00001% of Pharo capabilities. This is why I started a wiki to expose some of the hidden corners of Pharo because if you follow the mailing list you will find a ton of things that you are not aware of and that applies to me that I am not new to Pharo. I have been using Pharo since 2011.

So definetly do not think we do not understand the pain for a beginner to get into all this but on the other hand, the hand holding in other programming languages is also very limited. Even with python the material is great to get you started but once you are outside the beginner gate you are all alone digging stack overflow and the dark corners of google search.

In the end you will figure out that searching for the answer yourself will become more and more fast than googling it, especially if the answer is not that obvious. Its all part of being a coder :)

Remember contributing back even little, counts for a lot. Afterall as Stef so elegant puts it, Pharo belongs to all of us.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:08 PM ghoetker <[hidden email]> wrote:

Many thanks to Esteban for starting this effort and to everyone who has
contributed. As a newish member of the community, the lack of such
descriptions creates a huge barrier. Not so much that I need to know what
"FlyingMongoose" does, but the presence of so many documented projects in
the catalog makes me feel like I must be "missing" a big part of the Pharo
picture. It gives an unwelcoming face to one of the most welcoming
communities I've encountered in the software world.

So, extra encouragement to those pitching in and thanks again.

-----
Glenn Hoetker
[hidden email]
http://hoetker.faculty.asu.edu
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View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Catalog-statistics-Who-know-this-projects-tp4869315p4963406.html
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