RFV: pinhead team needed

We (as in the All Powerful and MightyBoard) are intending to produce  
some more nice enamel Squeak badges as fund raising items. The  
previous batch I did a few years ago proved very popular and we hope  
that offering them again will help fill the Foundation Coffers.

I'm going to actually fund the initial purchase and hope that enough  
sell to at least cover most of those costs. This Request For  
Volunteers is seeking a few people that can help with fulfilling  
orders. I propose mailing a batch to each pinhead team member in,  
hopefully, several different parts of the world so that local postage  
will suffice for most orders.

Volunteers will need to be able and willing to store some badges,  
obtain small padded envelopes or small boxes, mail them to  
supporters, submit their expenses and receive reimbursement by paypal.

tim
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I'm willing to assist.  I'm in Southern Kentucky, USA so somewhat
centrally located (if rather easterly) in the US.

Ken

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:49 -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:

Our squeak entry in wikipedia is looking a bit thin!

Also for those who are writing tutorials, can you, or would you want to,
match this

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

cheers

Keith

       
       
               
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Am Jan 17, 2007 um 21:45  schrieb Keith Hodges:

> Our squeak entry in wikipedia is looking a bit thin!
>
> Also for those who are writing tutorials, can you, or would you  
> want to, match this
>
> http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

"Matching" this is impossible. A talented writer passionate about  
Squeak might write something similar. Not sure we have one in the  
community - I for one miss Jim Benson, who had a very distinct style  
to his writing:

        http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1248

- Bert -

Talking about fund raising, what are the plans for spending the money  
on?
I think it would be much easier to convince people of donating if  
they knew what the money is going to be used for and then see a  
concrete result.

Cheers,
Adrian

On Jan 17, 2007, at 20:49 , tim Rowledge wrote:

On 17-Jan-07, at 12:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:


>
> "Matching" this is impossible. A talented writer passionate about  
> Squeak might write something similar. Not sure we have one in the  
> community - I for one miss Jim Benson, who had a very distinct  
> style to his writing:
Yes, Jim is/was quite the writer. We still have Dan Schafer though,  
who's no lightweight as an author. And Avi writes good papers/talks/
etc. Even I can put together a paragraph or two on occasion.

Like anything else in the world of community software (or anything  
else) it comes down to somebody with passion, somebody with talent  
and somebody with time. They don't necessarily have to be the same  
single person. If you're passionate but feel you lack talent, be the  
team cheerleader, editor, manager, whatever. If you lack time, do a  
little bit and let the team editor munge it into the whole. The  
website and the swiki are ideal places for people that can write but  
only a little at a time, by the way. Even simply scanning the swiki  
and getting rid of obviously wrong or out of date stuff and spammed  
pages is a valuable service.

It's *our* system. *We* get to do it.

tim
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Sign me up for Europe (if others want to take chunks out of "my" bit
of the world, fine, I'll just be the default for unclaimed territory
:-))

On 1/17/07, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
> We (as in the All Powerful and MightyBoard) are intending to produce
> some more nice enamel Squeak badges as fund raising items. The
> previous batch I did a few years ago proved very popular and we hope
> that offering them again will help fill the Foundation Coffers.
>

On 1/17/07, Adrian Lienhard <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Talking about fund raising, what are the plans for spending the money
> on?

Valid question. At the moment, we have higher and higher fixed
operating expenses:
- box2.squeakfoundation.org.
- we want another box quite likely for fail-over and other reasons.
- incorporation of SqueakFoundation with quite some up-front costs and
some recurring yearly costs (publishing accounts and stuff, methinks).

Then, if we really want to make a difference, we need to build up a
little warchest so we can start supporting people (if not actually
paying, maybe by donating/lending hardware,  stuff like that) in
extending Squeak. Also - I'm thinking that promotional activities,
showing off Squeak and all the "products" built on it like Dabble,
Croquet, Scratch, ...  - inplaces like maybe OOPSLA etcetera might
help raise awareness, grow the crowd, and make things a lot easier.
We're still a very tiny group, with very limited time, and that is
something we need to work on. Lots of ideas have been discussed over
the years on this list, and they're all good ideas :).

OK, I have volunteers for Europe, the US and southern Americas, which  
probably adequately covers out needs.

As for what we need money for - well Cees pointed out the running  
expenses of the various machines we maintain. Without keeping that  
expenditure covered we're in trouble so that has to come first. After  
that it would be nice to be able to support a slightly more  
'official' presence at some of the shows; perhaps even a booth or  
two, even just some 'Camp Squeak' banners to literally wave the flag.  
If we can raise more substantial amounts of money so that we can make  
actual, real, financial support offers to people doing significant  
works then that would be fabulous. It would be wonderful to be so  
flush with dosh that we could employ Bryce to do Exupery, Avi to do  
Seaside, Craig to do spoon, me to be wonderful, etc etc etc. Anyone  
willing and able to commit a few hundred thousand euros a year should  
please contact me right away.

tim
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Tim,

Have you let these volunteers know?  I guess I'm wondering whether I'm
one of them, and if so, what the next steps are.

Ken

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:57 -0800, tim Rowledge wrote: