Fwd: [squeak-dev] Hawthorne Center's proposal for GSoC 2008

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>  From: <[hidden email]>
>  Date: March 10, 2008 8:53:59 PM GMT-02:00
>  To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
>  <[hidden email]>
>  Subject: [squeak-dev] Hawthorne Center's proposal for
>  GSoC 2008
>  Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>  <[hidden email]>
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>  Hi All,
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>  Apropo of an email I sent out last week, I am sending
>  to the list a draft of the proposal we at the
>  Hawthorne Center will be sending to GSoC 2008. If
>  anyone would like to be a mentor for this project
>  please contact me, Donna, ASAP at [hidden email].
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>  Also, any feedback will be much appreciated.
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>  Thanks,
>  Donna
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>  Hawthorne Center for Innovation is dedicated to
>  advancing research and educational efforts that create
>  and transmit knowledge for the public good.
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>  Hawthorne Center for Innovation is seeking support to
>  further the vision of the Center's research
>  scientist-in-residence, Ben Cooper, for a
>  next-generation internet that will be much more secure
>  and much more user-friendly than the current paradigm.
>  Ben Cooper has determined that 95 % the apps needed to
>  build this better internet have already been
>  developed, just not connected together.
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>  The Center hopes by participating in GSoC 2008 to get
>  enough code written to go a long way towards
>  completing the 1st step in the connecting-up process;
>  i.e., to putting Jeff Raskin's "zoom world" app into
>  Squeak Smalltalk's 'Morphic' image.
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>  Status of components necessary to complete a
>  next-generation web environment:
>  1)     'Morphic' environment within Squeak needed to
>  replace HTML – 100% done.
>  2)     'Morphic' – to - HTML translator – Needs to be
>  built.
>  3)     HTML –to – 'Morphic' translator. Needs to be
>  built.
>  4)     Classes within Squeak to handle server
>  functionality – 99 % (?) complete.
>  5)     Squeak 'E-Toys' functionality as superior
>  replacement for 'Javascripts'. – 100% done.
>  6)     Passing of classes between Squeak images trough
>  use of Squeak's 'Nebraska' code. – 90% (?) complete.
>  7)     Download of classes and methods through Craig
>  Latta's 'Spoon' class server – 85% (?) complete.
>  8)     Incorporating Raskin's zoom world into Squeak's
>  'Morphic' environment – Needs to be done.
>  9)     Incorporating Raskin's 'Archie' data structure
>  into Squeak's 'Morphic' environment – Needs to be
>  done.
>  10)  'Tea Time' functionality, as per Croquet - a
>  superior real-time replacement for 'wiki' technology –
>  95% (?) complete.
>
>  Applications needed to launch a next-generation web:
>  1)     Squeak web-browser (that operates both on HTML
>  and OO message passing).
>  2)     Squeak "web"-server (serves up HTML or OO
>  'Moprhic' messages based on requesting browser).
>  3)     Secure Latta's 'Spoon' class server.
>
>
>  Road-Map to Next-Generation Internet
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>  Steps needed to complete 1st generation apps:
>  1)     Produce classes and methods necessary to
>  translate Morphic objects into HTML code. (Code will
>  be produced in structured manner so that it is easily
>  transportable between images).
>  2)     Produce classes and methods necessary to
>  translate HTML code into 'Morphic' objects. (Code will
>  be produced in structured manner so that it is easily
>  transportable between images).
>  3)     Build classes and methods that incorporate
>  Raskin's zoom-world into 'Morphic' environment.
>  4)     Finalize transmission of classes and methods
>  between server image and browser image (building upon
>  Squeak's 'Nebraska' code).
>  5)     Complete Latta's 'Spoon' class-server
>  technology.
>  6)     Produce Squeak's web-server by integrating code
>  produced in steps 1, 3, 4, and 5.
>  7)     Produce Squeak web-browser by integrating code
>  produced in steps 2, 3, 4, and 5.
>  8)     Package Squeak's web-browser so that it is
>  easily downloadable and launchable on all major OSs,
>  i.e., Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc.
>  9)     Produce 'Spoon' server.
>
>  Proposed steps for 2nd generation apps:
>  1)     Secure transmission of classes and methods
>  between Latta's 'Spoon' class server and the two apps:
>  Squeak web-browser and Squeak web-server.
>  2)     Set up both Squeak's web-server and web-browser
>  to run without an underlying OS.
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>
>  Advantages of this next-generation web technology:
>  1)     Backwards compatible with present internet.
>  2)     Greatly simplifies creating web content –
>  virtually anyone will be able to write dynamic web
>  content using morphic and e-toys technology.
>  3)     When data is shared between a Squeak server and
>  a Squeak browser, the interactions can be made not at
>  the HTML level but at the OO object message passing
>  level, greatly enhancing user experience.
>  4)     Eventual development of computing systems that
>  do not require an operating system, i.e., Linux,
>  Windows, Mac OS, etc.
>  5)     With these 4 steps completed, computer
>  hardware--based on a design by Ben Cooper-- can be
>  greatly simplified and substantially improved using
>  present chip technology.
>
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> Vi este mail y estuve mirando un poco la página del
> instituto ese. El
> proyecto es más que interesante, aunque nunca
> mencionaron (que yo haya
> visto) nada de $$$$.
>
> Creo que más bien apuntan al SoC con algunos
> estudiantes, pero bueno,
> con preguntar no se pierde nada.
>
> Saludos.