The Smalltalk Renaissance Program

Hi Richard,

I aggree with you and I had several dicussions with vendors over the past years on this.

From my experience I can only tell you that,...

.... it is merely impossible to keep all these platforms in sync if you do not have a tool support for that. And I assume you want to be in-synch on all of these because currently we are not. And Smalltalk does not benefit from that.

.... when ever I attend a tech nerds, developers, teachers/professors meeting everybody has heard about Smalltalk and would love to finally see it or get his hands on it. And still they don't because they have no idea how...

.... eventhough you can already google Smalltalk, I still have customers that didn't even know that their dialect ist still maintained by a vendor...

.... I do not know a single person that would register on a whole list of platfroms like the ones you mentioned and try to keep up with the updates, or even try to contribute on all of these platforms.

.... Scratch on Raspberry PI is vastly used and accepted by 1.5 million children on a daily base. They are all under 14 years and not allowed to register on any social platform or even own a smart phone... but they do read journals available for RaspberryPI and they find a Scratch button the the desktop of a virgin install.

.... TV radio and printed media are under valued and Smalltalk should be present there, too. You can decide on which link on a website to follow, but you can't decide which journals page to turn.... everybody will try the next one first... decisen makers do not activly register on a certain site to get information without purpose,... they stumble over information,... so do their consultants.

.... I feel extreemly awkward to loginto Google+ and the first connection offered to me is James Robertson,... whoe recently passed away. I also have a hard time to point Smalltakl interested developers to his tutorial site. I hope somebody will take his work over and provide vital support for questions.


I would start to collect the current available resources, discuss which to promote and use in the future and then promote these on the sites you mentioned.
The only really working Smalltalk information site that worked for me since 15 years is:
planet.smalltalk.org
Maybe you want to invest into a mechanism to allow upteds from all your suggested resources onto there.

Sebastian
 



Am 07.01.2015 um 06:23 schrieb Richard Eng: