Oups sorry I forgot to add that I managed to install it via Package
browser, so maybe is a configuration issue

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:09 PM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <
offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote:

> Dimitris, Ben and Phil,
>
> Thanks for your interest in Grafoscopio. I need to solve the issue with
> installation at least on Pharo 5. I don't know what is working wrong and
> need to understand better the ConfigurationOf stuff. Once I have it (soon)
> I will be back with news about installing or questions about what is not
> working.
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
>
> On 27/10/16 12:01, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
>
> Absolutely , I am enjoying calling the way I work "parasitic coding"
> mainly because I love to use/ take advantage/canibalize existing libraries,
> languages and applications.
>
> Grafoscopio, Pillar, existing ProfStef, Morphic , whatever can help me
> open a link in a web browser and anything else will be on my plate. Working
> together is doable too.
>
> Unfortunately I cannot load your project in Pharo 6
> it complains when I use Gofer about an out of bounds problem, if I use
> monticello at Loading ConfigurationOfGlamourCore-PabloTesone.152 gives
> error about a missing quote.
>
> PRDocumentItemTest methodsFor: 'tests' stamp: 'lr 3/30Unmatched ' in
> string literal. ->
>
> Grafoscopio is very good and thanks for reminding me I have completely
> forgotten it , which means I will need to take a good look to see what else
> is out there I can use.
>
> GUI wise, its quite different from what I imagined for my project so at
> least that part I will have do , feature wise though it seems like you
> covered many of my goals indeed though I will give a lot more close look in
> a few and in the near future.
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:44 PM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <
> offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dimitris,
>
> Goals 1 to 6 overlap with the ones Grafoscopio. Could you test it please
> to see if we can work together in some way or Grafoscopio could work as a
> foundation for your work? In that way we could break the lonely developer
> reality for this one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
> On 27/10/16 09:00, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
>
> I decided to make a new version for ProfStef released under then name
> "Pharo Live Tutorial".
>
> My goals are to:
> 1) add to it a history panel, so the user can navigate to the part he
> wants.
> 2) group parts into chapters to make progress more clear
> 3) break some parts to smaller parts to ensure smooth learning curve
> 4) add it to the help section of the world menu , so it is far more
> visible to the user
> 5) link parts to relevant chapter and section of PBE5 (or any other
> relevant book), so the user can easily access more detailed info in case he
> wants to.
> 6) Design the tool so it can accommodate multiple tutorials, each having
> its own chapters and parts
> 7) Design a GUI to navigate to tutorials
> 8) Integrate it with GTSpotter so the user can easily find the information
> he or she wants
> 9) Integrate small challenge games to help the user test what he learned
> and have fun at the same time, with ability to be awarded with a score in
> terms of "levels" and of course badges for achievements ;)
> 10) Provide an integrated blog (nothing fancy, just text) , for latest
> news about pharo , this blog will be basically copying some of my blog
> posts , to show to users that we are alive and kicking and not just an
> almost dead project and of course advertise the hard work of many of my
> fellow guardians of the light.
>
> PS: obviously references to Stef will remain and he will be credited as
> author of the tutorial
>
> Can't promise when it will be ready and can't promise first version will
> include all the above but this is the direction I want to go with this.
> This live interactive tutorial will replace my video tutorials since they
> are too hard to keep updated.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:04 PM Vitor Medina Cruz <vitormc...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> *stepharo:*
>
> Why not pushing/improving
>
>     either
>         UPBE
>         ProfStef
>         With the Mooc Counter example: In TWO MINUTES people get
> something DONE a simple counter.
>         What else can it be.
>
>
> I run the following experience during my lecture. I give 1 hour
> presentation about pharo / vision / sneakpeek and ask them to watch the
> counter
> video and redo it and it works!
>
>
> Indeed, you can. My opinion was in the lines of improving Profstef :)
>
> Mooc may be good in a class with a teacher for the student to take doubts,
> but I find a little confusing for someone that finds it by its own in
> pharo.org.
>
> I have some friends on the field, some are overseas (I am in Brazil) and
> when the opportunity comes I talk about Smalltalk and Pharo and how good it
> is, then:
>
> 1- Some get interested and asks for reference, I usually point to the
> Proftef, the site and the PBE;
> 2- Some are interested and we are close so I can I explain something
> myself and show the environment, maybe pairing;
> 3- Sometimes someone got interested and went to the pharo.org by itself
> and I know of that only afterwards.
>
> In every situation people got confused :(
>
> The best time was 2, because I could explain better what was going on, but
> usually people try by itself, and that don't went well. For example, some
> report to me that had made the exercise from PBE and got really confused in
> the end: what was that I was doing? Where are my classes again? Workspace?
> Where is the code again? What happened?
>
> I think it is hard for someone that already internalize the concept of
> image and self contained environment to understand why this confusion is
> happening, but when you come to think about it that is not so strange
> because people are used to files and all those crap static stuff, so it is
> kind of a huge paradigm shift learning Pharo: it *is* confusing for them.
>
> But it seems to me that you are focusing more on fresh people, been teach
> on classrooms and such, right now. That may be good, I am not sure if
> people already in the industry can be cooped in enough size to be able to
> improve Pharo community and use.
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:21 AM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote:
>
> funnily dale I read it like you wish :)
>
>
>
> Le 26/10/16 à 21:53, Dale Henrichs a écrit :
>
>
>
> On 10/26/16 12:13 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> On the issue of contributing to Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS)
> projects, I have been reading recently Nadia Eghbal and her analysis that
> confirm that most FLOSS projects are done by individuals and small teams,
> which is contrary to the bazaar narrative. This comic shows the point:
>
> and you can find more details here:
> https://medium.com/@nayafia/what-success-really-looks-like-in-open-source-2dd1facaf91c#.e360z53sf
>
> After skimming the actual article and finding that the points made in the
> article are valid I would have wished that the right panel in the cartoon
> had said "one more pull request before going to bed" since that is closer
> to what the article is about ... an active, community that contributes is
> also an important component and something that Pharo/Smalltalk community
> does indeed have.
>
> Dale
>
>
>
>
>
>

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