I agree: A man along can not, even if he's wearing several hats:
president of the campaign, campaigner, advocate, funding department,
founder. But actions like this can turn some eyes towards deeper
experience way beyond advertising. It was not my case and I don't know
how many start with a technology because they saw it on a advertising
campaign. I remember thinking about what was the best context/technology
to learn Python, beyond the classical and dumb "hello world"
introductions and I found Leo Editor in Linux today or some news, so
definitively having news spread helps, as a first step towards bridging
newbies and communities, but I think that is once some signal is send
the best is to have paths towards deeper engagement (instead of fighting
popularity metrics or "someone wrong on the Internet").
About "making Smalltalk great again", I have been wondering: what
"greatness" mean and what was lost that needs to be recovered. May be it
was some sense of opportunity, the idea that Smalltalk can be useful in
the wide world for children and adults in several contexts.
I think that a measure of a healthy community is in its diversity and
the empowerment it provides to its members. In that sense, popularity is
not the proper measure for greatness and the sense of opportunity is
still there.
Cheers,
Offray
On 07/01/17 17:03, p...@highoctane.be wrote:
Ah ah, yeah.
Man alone can't but keep on trucking, any advertising is fine as
people forget if it was good or bad, just that they were exposed to
the product.
And engineering is making progress :-)
Phil
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:11 PM, horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com
<mailto:horrido.hobb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I was totally surprised to see this today. It completely blows my
mind! I
feel like I've won an Oscar.
http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/
<http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/>
<http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/
<http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/>>
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