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Chris Cunnington-5

Public Relations Team question

Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak. It's open
source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think this
is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the Media
section of Squeak.org. And then we can submit this as a news story to
Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?

Chris Cunnington

PR Team Leader

Giuseppe

Re: Public Relations Team question

But is the book finished?

Chris Cunnington escribió:

> Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak. It's open
> source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think this
> is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the Media
> section of Squeak.org. And then we can submit this as a news story to
> Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?
>
> Chris Cunnington
>
> PR Team Leader
>
>
>

Brad Fuller-2

Re: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Chris Cunnington-5

On Thu September 13 2007, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak. It's
> open source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think
> this is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the
> Media section of Squeak.org. And then we can submit this as a news story to
> Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?

Sounds like a great idea.

Chris Cunnington-5

Re: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Giuseppe

On 9/13/07 12:46 PM, "Giuseppe Luigi Punzi" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> But is the book finished?
>
>

That's a great question. And I think the answer is yes. I downloaded the pdf
and Stephane and his team have a complete book here. I'm stunned. I seem to
recall that they were talking about it only a few weeks ago. I think they've
been busy. I just ordered a copy from Lulu that will arrive in the mail, so
I think we have the basis to call this news and to proceed.

Chris

Michael Davies-2

Re: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Chris Cunnington-5

This is a very good idea.

Can I suggest that we write a short article for publication on
news.squeak.org? Whatever other material we produce could all point to
that, rather than to the book or the press release directly. This will
help to raise awareness of our blog, and also give a good forum for
comments.

We should think about who we should target: Slashdot, Reddit and Digg
spring to mind immediately. Any others?

It would be useful to let the list know when articles had been
submitted, to give us a chance to vote them up (though we should be
careful not to overdo it - I remember that the DabbleDB folk got
themselves accused of trying to game the Digg voting a while ago).

I'm happy to help with preparation of articles, etc.

Cheers, Michael

On 13/09/2007, Chris Cunnington <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak. It's open
> source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think this
> is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the Media
> section of Squeak.org. And then we can submit this as a news story to
> Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?
>
> Chris Cunnington
>
> PR Team Leader
>
>
>

Damien Pollet

Re: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Chris Cunnington-5

On 13/09/2007, Chris Cunnington <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On 9/13/07 12:46 PM, "Giuseppe Luigi Punzi" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > But is the book finished?

Well, it's open, so there will be improved/extended releases in the
future, but this first release is official, yes. Please advertise!

> That's a great question. And I think the answer is yes. I downloaded the pdf
> and Stephane and his team have a complete book here. I'm stunned. I seem to
> recall that they were talking about it only a few weeks ago. I think they've
> been busy. I just ordered a copy from Lulu that will arrive in the mail, so
> I think we have the basis to call this news and to proceed.

The project started maybe a year ago. The recent activity was Oscar
pushing to finalize a release for the beginning of the semester :-)

--
Damien Pollet
type less, do more [ | ] http://typo.cdlm.fasmz.org

Ron Teitelbaum

RE: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Michael Davies-2

Hello all,

Incase anyone missed this; on Sept 3rd Brad Fuller covered Squeak By
Example.

http://news.squeak.org/2007/09/03/coming-soon-open-source-squeak-book/

>From what I can tell it was submitted to reddit.com and so far we received
753 hits on it. (This represents a medium amount of reddit interest). We
are still receiving about 25 - 35 hits a day on this article.

A press release would still be a good idea and we would be happy to carry it
also on new.squeak.org.

Ron Teitelbaum
Squeak News Team Leader

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Davies
>
> This is a very good idea.
>
> Can I suggest that we write a short article for publication on
> news.squeak.org? Whatever other material we produce could all point to
> that, rather than to the book or the press release directly. This will
> help to raise awareness of our blog, and also give a good forum for
> comments.
>
> We should think about who we should target: Slashdot, Reddit and Digg
> spring to mind immediately. Any others?
>
> It would be useful to let the list know when articles had been
> submitted, to give us a chance to vote them up (though we should be
> careful not to overdo it - I remember that the DabbleDB folk got
> themselves accused of trying to game the Digg voting a while ago).
>
> I'm happy to help with preparation of articles, etc.
>
> Cheers, Michael
>
> On 13/09/2007, Chris Cunnington <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak. It's
> open
> > source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think
> this
> > is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the
> Media
> > section of Squeak.org. And then we can submit this as a news story to
> > Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?
> >
> > Chris Cunnington
> >
> > PR Team Leader
> >
> >
> >

Chris Cunnington-5

Re: Public Relations Team question

OK, super. I'll contact the PR team off the board. We'll do what we did last
time, which was craft a press release, and then submit it to the Squeak
board.

Once we have a press release on the squeak.org site, then I'll make an
announcement to ask people to submit the story to Slashdot (it's better if
it's more than one person). I'll give the link for people to do that, and
then we can see how we do.

Chris Cunnington

PR Team leader

Michael van der Gulik-2

Re: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Chris Cunnington-5

On 9/14/07, Chris Cunnington <[hidden email]> wrote:

Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak. It's open
source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think this
is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the Media
section of Squeak.org. And then we can submit this as a news story to
Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?

Put up a link on digg.com and paste it here. Then we can get hoards of Squeakers to bring it to the front page.

Michael.

Michael van der Gulik-2

Re: Public Relations Team question

On 9/14/07, Michael van der Gulik <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 9/14/07, Chris Cunnington <[hidden email]> wrote:

Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak. It's open
source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think this
is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the Media
section of <a href="http://Squeak.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Squeak.org. And then we can submit this as a news story to
Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?

Put up a link on <a href="http://digg.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> digg.com and paste it here. Then we can get hoards of Squeakers to bring it to the front page.

Hi all... Serge has already done this.

http://www.digg.com/software/Squeak_by_Example_Lulu_com

Could we have as many people as possible digg this?

Michael.

Chris Cunnington-5

Re: Public Relations Team question

Re: Public Relations Team question
Dugged.

On 9/13/07 5:50 PM, "Michael van der Gulik" <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 9/14/07, Michael van der Gulik <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 9/14/07, Chris Cunnington < [hidden email] [hidden email] > wrote:

Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak. It's open
source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think this
is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the Media
section of Squeak.org <http://Squeak.org> . And then we can submit this as a news story to
Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?

Put up a link on digg.com <http://digg.com> and paste it here. Then we can get hoards of Squeakers to bring it to the front page.

Hi all... Serge has already done this.

http://www.digg.com/software/Squeak_by_Example_Lulu_com

Could we have as many people as possible digg this?

Michael.

Klaus D. Witzel

Re: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Michael van der Gulik-2

At the time of this writing it says, posted: 13 hr 22 min ago, diggs: 7
(that's 3 + 4, for sure).

Sad.

/Klaus

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:50:25 +0200, Michael van der Gulik wrote:

> On 9/14/07, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/14/07, Chris Cunnington wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on Squeak.
>> It's
>> > open
>> > source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I think
>> > this
>> > is news, and that a press release should be created and added to the
>> > Media
>> > section of Squeak.org. And then we can submit this as a news story to
>> > Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?
>> >
>>
>> Put up a link on digg.com and paste it here. Then we can get hoards of
>> Squeakers to bring it to the front page.
>>
>
> Hi all... Serge has already done this.
>
> http://www.digg.com/software/Squeak_by_Example_Lulu_com
>
> Could we have as many people as possible digg this?
>
> Michael.

Janko Mivšek

Re: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Michael van der Gulik-2

Michael van der Gulik wrote:

> Stephane Ducasse and his team have completed a new book on
> Squeak. It's open
> source as a pdf with the option of ordering a copy from Lulu. I
> think this
> is news, and that a press release should be created and added to
> the Media
> section of Squeak.org <http://Squeak.org>. And then we can
> submit this as a news story to
> Slashdot. Does anybody have an objection to this?
>
> Put up a link on digg.com <http://digg.com> and paste it here. Then
> we can get hoards of Squeakers to bring it to the front page.
>
> Hi all... Serge has already done this.
> http://www.digg.com/software/Squeak_by_Example_Lulu_com
> Could we have as many people as possible digg this?
>
> Michael.

I also post it to Reddit (programming):

http://programming.reddit.com/info/2pcu2/comments

Please vote on Reddit too!

Best regards
Janko

--
Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si

Michael Davies-2

Re: Public Relations Team question

I've put a news article on news.squeak.org -- see
http://news.squeak.org/2007/09/14/squeak-by-example-now-published/

Chris, let me know when the fuller press release is available, and
I'll update it to refer to that also.

I don't know how Digg and Reddit work -- is it possible to amend the
submissions to add a link to this article, so that readers end up at a
Squeak page rather than a Lulu page?

I've submitted an article to Slashdot - it's in the Firehose at
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=287897 -- please vote it
up!

Chris Cunnington-5

Re: Public Relations Team question

>
> Chris, let me know when the fuller press release is available, and
> I'll update it to refer to that also.
>

Hi Michael,

I'll post when the press release has been added to squeak.org. It's a
process, a lot of which is out of my hands, but when it gets added, I will
insure that you are aware of it.

Chris

Jason Johnson-5

Re: Public Relations Team question

In reply to this post by Michael Davies-2

On 9/13/07, Michael Davies <[hidden email]> wrote:
> (though we should be
> careful not to overdo it - I remember that the DabbleDB folk got
> themselves accused of trying to game the Digg voting a while ago).

Don't worry about that. Any time something comes in that's better
then the horrible solutions some of those people like comes along and
actually gets votes they, failing voting it down, start making
accusations.