On Wednesday, December 31, 2014, horrido <[email protected]> wrote:
> Such hostility! This has been gone over before and it can be a sensitive issue and draining for busy people with a vision of what they want to achieve with Pharo - hence the terse response. There is some enlightening research you could do in the archives on this topic. (sorry too hard to find through this vacation interface) Now often I post a link to Eric S Raymond's "how to ask smart questions" but this interface is difficult, could you google it. > If I have no idea what I'm talking about, then you may enlighten me. But > there's no need to attack me. I'm only trying to help and contribute in my > own way. > I am, in fact, doing a great deal. In terms of PR, I've created a Facebook > page, created a Google+ page, created a Twitter feed and I'm tweeting > constantly. I'm collecting and curating for the Resources page, and I shall > be doing the same for essays and articles shortly (can you be patient??). > I'm actively /trying to sign up supporters for the SRP/, and I am about > ready to contact a major CEO. Next month, I will be investigating the > Toronto District School Board to see how we may get Smalltalk into the > classroom (/I have a contact/). I have spent countless hours working on > this > campaign, and I have a great deal more things to do in the New Year, as > I've > clearly outlined in a previous post. This is great to hear of these positive actions. > > I'm not sure what it is you think I should be *doing*. What "everyone else" > is doing *is on the technical front*, working on tools and code. As I've > already clearly elaborated, this is not enough. I'm trying a different > approach to promoting Smalltalk, one that is based on PR, marketing and > branding. Let me turn the question around: What are *you* doing on the PR > > Everyone contributes in their own way. It will be good to add more PR, but this needs to be lead by those technical-doers who have spent the last five years creating their vision for Pharo. (myself I am a newcomer also) -Ben
