[CM] s7-playground (interactive tutorial) update

[Iain Duncan]

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> On the github stuff -- I read somewhere (hacker news probably)
> that this is a "generational problem" -- old-timers don't
> see any benefit in "project management tools" whatever that
> means, and young folks can't imagine life without them.
> I don't even have a smartphone.
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 I think I read the same thread. Was that on the emacs direction thread? :-)

I think one thing that is a really big advantage of github presence though,
is visibility. Sourceforge has sadly languished and is now a nightmare of
advertising, and awful web design and navigation, whereas on github it is
very easy to quickly take stock of how much is going on and by whom in an
open source project. The reason I personally think this is important is
that there is *more* s7 activity than one would be led to believe by a
glance at sourceforge. For my purposes, github is great because I do want
to attract users to Scheme For Max, in the hope of eventually finding more
contributors. Github makes it very easy for potential users to watch, fork,
see the activity by ticket, etc, all with no advertising. I don't need the
tooling, it's just me so far, but I know that to attract other devs, they
will want to have access to this, and it makes it smooth to work with them
in a gradual manner.

Of course I realize this is moot if one is not concerned about attracting
users, and that is of course up to you. But I would humbly put forth that
this is why it's attractive to those of us using S7 in contexts where we
want to attract uptake and build a bit of a community :-)

iain
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