Ausome. I really hope this project works out.
>From: "David Griswold" <
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>Subject: ESUG SummerTalk 2007 Strongtalk project
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:05:54 -0700
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>Hi everyone.
>
>ESUG has graciously offered to fund a student to help with the Strongtalk
>project as part of the SummerTalk 2007 program (thanks Stephane).
>SummerTalk will pay the student 1500 euros for this work. I will be
>acting
>as mentor for this project.
>
>While there are various possibilities for this project, I will be starting
>to work on porting Squeak to the Strongtalk VM, and ideally I would like to
>find someone who wants to work with me on that. This will entail diving
>deeply into the Squeak and Strongtalk VM interfaces, and figuring out how
>to
>adapt the Squeak image so that it will boot off the Strongtalk VM. This
>ought to be a very interesting tour through the guts of two very
>interesting
>systems. If the port turns out to be too large a job, there are subtasks
>that can be fairly easily defined, such as setting up the Strongtalk system
>for re-bootstrapping, which is a necessary step.
>
>Of course, there are other possibilities if that doesn't sound interesting
>or if your talents lie in other areas. For example, there is work in
>progress on porting the Strongtalk VM to Linux and MacOS that is a high
>priority for the Strongtalk project.
>
>Please contact me if you are registered or if you know someone who might be
>interested, at David.takeThisPartOut.Griswold.at.acm.org
>
>- Dave
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