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Darius Clarke is running for the 2013 board

Darius Clarke
Hi all, 

I've developed applications in Squeak in various forms professionally (including Croquet & Cobalt) and now I would like to give back to the community, helping where I can. I use Squeak (and eToys) for educational purposes and create some learning tools with it. 

Like most of the community I'm persuaded by the programming and UI ideals which Squeak embodies (and hinted at ideals and opportunities). 

Curiously, each direction taken by the developers along Squeak's development path seem to coincide with how I would envision Squeak should progress. So, I would encourage Squeak's community to continue on it's current trajectory: making it more modular in packages, better developer tools, and a little more consistency in programming paradigms as needed. 

Coming from an educational perspective, I do bring with me some preferences (secondary to the above) for Squeak's progress such as:
  • Prepackaged distributions for rapid adoption for common use cases (since our systems should serve us and not us serve them)
  • Rapid discover of modules or components for a purpose. (Dividing a monolith into modules is only half the battle. We must be able to discover and assemble the disparate parts extremely rapidly into our solutions to be ideal for the intended purpose or task to accomplish.)
  • Continue supporting student constructionist education, with a gradual self revealing of Squeak's computational power to the student as the student masters each skill (as a fertile platform for supporting eToys and beyond eToys)
  • Continuing its support for the modern web communication infrastructure. The web has become the UI of the people (not by choice, design, or superiority) but has, in effect, unified the public of many nations (E pluribus unum) with the power provided by computational tools. I believe doing so will help expose Squeak's capabilities to more developers who can use it. Computational thinking has grown beyond one person to one machine to one software platform.
My best wishes for all the candidates and for a prosperous new year to the Squeak and Smalltalk community. Thank you for all your work up to now and into the future.

- Darius Clarke


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Re: Darius Clarke is running for the 2013 board

Bert Freudenberg

On 26.01.2013, at 04:47, Darius Clarke <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've developed applications in Squeak in various forms professionally (including Croquet & Cobalt) and now I would like to give back to the community, helping where I can. I use Squeak (and eToys) for educational purposes and create some learning tools with it.
>
> Like most of the community I'm persuaded by the programming and UI ideals which Squeak embodies (and hinted at ideals and opportunities).
>
> Curiously, each direction taken by the developers along Squeak's development path seem to coincide with how I would envision Squeak should progress. So, I would encourage Squeak's community to continue on it's current trajectory: making it more modular in packages, better developer tools, and a little more consistency in programming paradigms as needed.
>
> Coming from an educational perspective, I do bring with me some preferences (secondary to the above) for Squeak's progress such as:
> • Prepackaged distributions for rapid adoption for common use cases (since our systems should serve us and not us serve them)
> • Rapid discover of modules or components for a purpose. (Dividing a monolith into modules is only half the battle. We must be able to discover and assemble the disparate parts extremely rapidly into our solutions to be ideal for the intended purpose or task to accomplish.)
> • Continue supporting student constructionist education, with a gradual self revealing of Squeak's computational power to the student as the student masters each skill (as a fertile platform for supporting eToys and beyond eToys)
> • Continuing its support for the modern web communication infrastructure. The web has become the UI of the people (not by choice, design, or superiority) but has, in effect, unified the public of many nations (E pluribus unum) with the power provided by computational tools. I believe doing so will help expose Squeak's capabilities to more developers who can use it. Computational thinking has grown beyond one person to one machine to one software platform.
> My best wishes for all the candidates and for a prosperous new year to the Squeak and Smalltalk community. Thank you for all your work up to now and into the future.
>
> - Darius Clarke

Great!

- Bert -



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Re: Darius Clarke is running for the 2013 board

Hannes Hirzel
There is the Pharo 2.0 image which is the developer image and a
smaller one called 'Pharo Kernel'.

https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/Pharo-Kernel-2.0/

Both have various builds with various packages.

--Hannes



On 1/26/13, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> On 26.01.2013, at 04:47, Darius Clarke <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've developed applications in Squeak in various forms professionally
>> (including Croquet & Cobalt) and now I would like to give back to the
>> community, helping where I can. I use Squeak (and eToys) for educational
>> purposes and create some learning tools with it.
>>
>> Like most of the community I'm persuaded by the programming and UI ideals
>> which Squeak embodies (and hinted at ideals and opportunities).
>>
>> Curiously, each direction taken by the developers along Squeak's
>> development path seem to coincide with how I would envision Squeak should
>> progress. So, I would encourage Squeak's community to continue on it's
>> current trajectory: making it more modular in packages, better developer
>> tools, and a little more consistency in programming paradigms as needed.
>>
>> Coming from an educational perspective, I do bring with me some
>> preferences (secondary to the above) for Squeak's progress such as:
>> • Prepackaged distributions for rapid adoption for common use cases
>> (since our systems should serve us and not us serve them)
>> • Rapid discover of modules or components for a purpose. (Dividing a
>> monolith into modules is only half the battle. We must be able to discover
>> and assemble the disparate parts extremely rapidly into our solutions to
>> be ideal for the intended purpose or task to accomplish.)
>> • Continue supporting student constructionist education, with a gradual
>> self revealing of Squeak's computational power to the student as the
>> student masters each skill (as a fertile platform for supporting eToys and
>> beyond eToys)
>> • Continuing its support for the modern web communication infrastructure.
>> The web has become the UI of the people (not by choice, design, or
>> superiority) but has, in effect, unified the public of many nations (E
>> pluribus unum) with the power provided by computational tools. I believe
>> doing so will help expose Squeak's capabilities to more developers who can
>> use it. Computational thinking has grown beyond one person to one machine
>> to one software platform.
>> My best wishes for all the candidates and for a prosperous new year to the
>> Squeak and Smalltalk community. Thank you for all your work up to now and
>> into the future.
>>
>> - Darius Clarke
>
> Great!
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
>

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Re: Darius Clarke is running for the 2013 board

Hannes Hirzel
Wrong thread, sorry.

On 1/26/13, H. Hirzel <[hidden email]> wrote:

> There is the Pharo 2.0 image which is the developer image and a
> smaller one called 'Pharo Kernel'.
>
> https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/Pharo-Kernel-2.0/
>
> Both have various builds with various packages.
>
> --Hannes
>
>
>
> On 1/26/13, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> On 26.01.2013, at 04:47, Darius Clarke <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've developed applications in Squeak in various forms professionally
>>> (including Croquet & Cobalt) and now I would like to give back to the
>>> community, helping where I can. I use Squeak (and eToys) for educational
>>> purposes and create some learning tools with it.
>>>
>>> Like most of the community I'm persuaded by the programming and UI
>>> ideals
>>> which Squeak embodies (and hinted at ideals and opportunities).
>>>
>>> Curiously, each direction taken by the developers along Squeak's
>>> development path seem to coincide with how I would envision Squeak
>>> should
>>> progress. So, I would encourage Squeak's community to continue on it's
>>> current trajectory: making it more modular in packages, better developer
>>> tools, and a little more consistency in programming paradigms as needed.
>>>
>>> Coming from an educational perspective, I do bring with me some
>>> preferences (secondary to the above) for Squeak's progress such as:
>>> • Prepackaged distributions for rapid adoption for common use cases
>>> (since our systems should serve us and not us serve them)
>>> • Rapid discover of modules or components for a purpose. (Dividing a
>>> monolith into modules is only half the battle. We must be able to
>>> discover
>>> and assemble the disparate parts extremely rapidly into our solutions to
>>> be ideal for the intended purpose or task to accomplish.)
>>> • Continue supporting student constructionist education, with a gradual
>>> self revealing of Squeak's computational power to the student as the
>>> student masters each skill (as a fertile platform for supporting eToys
>>> and
>>> beyond eToys)
>>> • Continuing its support for the modern web communication
>>> infrastructure.
>>> The web has become the UI of the people (not by choice, design, or
>>> superiority) but has, in effect, unified the public of many nations (E
>>> pluribus unum) with the power provided by computational tools. I believe
>>> doing so will help expose Squeak's capabilities to more developers who
>>> can
>>> use it. Computational thinking has grown beyond one person to one
>>> machine
>>> to one software platform.
>>> My best wishes for all the candidates and for a prosperous new year to
>>> the
>>> Squeak and Smalltalk community. Thank you for all your work up to now
>>> and
>>> into the future.
>>>
>>> - Darius Clarke
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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Re: Darius Clarke is running for the 2013 board

Chris Muller-3
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Cool!  That's great Darius, thanks.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Darius Clarke <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've developed applications in Squeak in various forms professionally
> (including Croquet & Cobalt) and now I would like to give back to the
> community, helping where I can. I use Squeak (and eToys) for educational
> purposes and create some learning tools with it.
>
> Like most of the community I'm persuaded by the programming and UI ideals
> which Squeak embodies (and hinted at ideals and opportunities).
>
> Curiously, each direction taken by the developers along Squeak's development
> path seem to coincide with how I would envision Squeak should progress. So,
> I would encourage Squeak's community to continue on it's current trajectory:
> making it more modular in packages, better developer tools, and a little
> more consistency in programming paradigms as needed.
>
> Coming from an educational perspective, I do bring with me some preferences
> (secondary to the above) for Squeak's progress such as:
>
> Prepackaged distributions for rapid adoption for common use cases (since our
> systems should serve us and not us serve them)
> Rapid discover of modules or components for a purpose. (Dividing a monolith
> into modules is only half the battle. We must be able to discover and
> assemble the disparate parts extremely rapidly into our solutions to be
> ideal for the intended purpose or task to accomplish.)
> Continue supporting student constructionist education, with a gradual self
> revealing of Squeak's computational power to the student as the student
> masters each skill (as a fertile platform for supporting eToys and beyond
> eToys)
> Continuing its support for the modern web communication infrastructure. The
> web has become the UI of the people (not by choice, design, or superiority)
> but has, in effect, unified the public of many nations (E pluribus unum)
> with the power provided by computational tools. I believe doing so will help
> expose Squeak's capabilities to more developers who can use it.
> Computational thinking has grown beyond one person to one machine to one
> software platform.
>
> My best wishes for all the candidates and for a prosperous new year to the
> Squeak and Smalltalk community. Thank you for all your work up to now and
> into the future.
>
> - Darius Clarke
>
>
>