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

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> Date: March 10, 2008 8:53:59 PM GMT-02:00
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> Subject: [squeak-dev] Hawthorne Center's proposal for GSoC 2008
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> Hi All,
>
> 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].
>
> Also, any feedback will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Donna
>
>
> Hawthorne Center for Innovation is dedicated to advancing research  
> and educational efforts that create and transmit knowledge for the  
> public good.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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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