News Report for January 2007

The purpose of the News team is to publish news regarding Squeak
development and use. It aims to provide a service to the Squeak
community, highlighting anything which the Squeak users may find
interesting in The Weekly Squeak newszine. It will also try to promote
Squeak outside its own community, by submitting articles and news items
to mainstream websites such as Slashdot and OSNews.

In the past three months I was very busy and couldn't work on the Weekly
Squeak blog. Ron has continued writing articles and kept the website
alive.

The Weekly Squeak blog ( http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com ) is now
getting ~300 views per day, with peaks of more than 1000 views when some
interesting articles are published.
The RSS2 feed gets ~50 reads per day. In our best day ever, we got more
than 2000 views and more than 200 feed consumers.

Most important open issues:
- we need more authors. If I or someone else can't post for a long time,
the blog risks remaining silent for too long.

Actions scheduled for February:
- Publish at least one news item per day
- Proceed with the categories reorganization that was discussed on the
news mailing list
- Look at Lukas Renggli's blog plugin for Pier as a possible successor
to the current blog engine
- Report on the 2007 SqF Board elections process.

Long term actions:
- coordinate with the new PR Team in order to produce articles to be
sent to mainstream news sites.
- move the blog to news.squeak.org

The News team has a mailing list (news at lists.squeakfoundation.org,
subscribe at
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news ).
Everyone can subscribe to the list, even if just for lurking, but new
team members are always welcome ;)

        Giovanni

Hi News Team,

I should have already. I just bookmarked The Weekly Squeak, so that I can
check it on a daily basis. The site looks great. I have already joined the
News Team mailing list.

I'm sure everybody knows this but me, but how do you submit stories for
consideration for addition to The Weekly Squeak?

I just got my first subscriber on YouTube for the "Web Pages With Smalltalk
Language" series of videos I'm doing. I'd like to submit this as a possible
item for consideration to the editors of The Weekly Squeak.

Chris Cunnington
PR Team Tsar

> I'm sure everybody knows this but me, but how do you submit stories for
> consideration for addition to The Weekly Squeak?

You just did.  We read the lists looking for interesting things to report on
so a post to squeak-dev works.  The best thing to do is submit ideas
directly to the news team mailing list.

Ron

Il giorno lun, 05/02/2007 alle 14.31 -0500, Ron Teitelbaum ha scritto:
> > I'm sure everybody knows this but me, but how do you submit stories for
> > consideration for addition to The Weekly Squeak?
>
> You just did.  We read the lists looking for interesting things to report on
> so a post to squeak-dev works.  The best thing to do is submit ideas
> directly to the news team mailing list.

And if you're interested in submitting news regularly, we can add you to
the blog as an author.

        Giovanni