RE: 3.4 press release

Maybe modify "Beneath its graphical user interface, it is powered by a descendant of the Smalltalk-80 language."?

I don't know if you want to mention Morphic, but you could say something like "incorporated key concepts from Self"


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Hi,

I had a bit less time than I expected tonight, so I wasn't able to give
the attention I wanted to the 3.4 press release. Nevertheless, I dare to
ask you to take a look at this draft:

http://swiki.squeakfoundation.org/squeakfoundation/95

and comment on it. The last paragraph is destined to become the standard
Squeak blurb for press releases, so I'd appreciate some extra attention
to detail here.

Regards,

Cees
h.t. External Relations Volunteer
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Ok, I'll be reviewing those in detail. A pretty good start. At the
Becoming a Steward page, I added a relevant mail of mine from a while
ago. Please let me know if it conveys the spirit of it, or is nothing
but a favorite rant.

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3091

Daniel

Brent Vukmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please review the following Swiki pages:
> "Core Packages" ( http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3084 )
> "3.4 Core Packages" ( http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3085 )
> "Stewards for Core Packages" ( http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3088 )
> 
> I think that the "Stewards for Core Packages" page is a decent beginning for a Stewards sign-up sheet.
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> "Brent Vukmer" <[email protected]> suggested...
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>I don't know if you want to mention Morphic, but you could say something like "incorporated key concepts from Self"

I fear this could be too easily misunderstood.  Other than Morphic, which originated with John, I don't know what key concepts came from self (rather than the other way around ;-).  I feel the current level of detail is good.  If people want more history, they can go to the refs (Back to the Future, etc), and if you start going into  more detail, it's hard to say just where to cut it off -- morphic, 3D, etoys, music synthesis, etc., etc.

Just my 2 cents...

	- Dan
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On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 04:40 PM, Cees de Groot wrote:

 > On March 3rd, Squeak 3.4 was released. This release presents ...

I might change this to March 5th, which was the day that squeak.org was 
updated.  I'd consider this more the "official" release date, since 
that's the day it was made available on the public website, complete 
with bundled VMs, etc.

 > ... and will be successful without the stewardship of corporations 
like
 > Apple and Disney, who largely sponsored development so far.

Maybe change the last bit to: "who have largely sponsored its 
development so far."

(just a minor change to make the language sound a little more formal)

 > Squeak is a personal multimedia environment aimed at end-users
 > (including children), developers, authors, and teachers. ...

Although I'm guilty of overusing parentheses in my emails, I wonder if 
the very first sentence of the official blurb would flow better without 
any parentheses.  Maybe something like "Squeak is a personal multimedia 
environment aimed at end-users
of all ages, developers, authors, and teachers."

- Doug Way