I think newcomers like us can play a pivot role too. As a newcomer I made Pharo manipulate Blender by hijacking python, I thought that most likely I would fail because I dont know Pharo well and I never tried to create a parser or communicate via sockets but I was succesful and uploaded several videos that I am sure raised some eyebrows. Now imagine 1 million pharo newcomers do this and having 1 million youtube videos that would lead to raising 1 million eyebrows :D
I agree that the best people for the job are experienced pharo developers but they can only do so much with their limited free time. We all need to help on this. Plus I have been following your progress with pharo and you have done some pretty cool contributions to pharo ;) On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 >
