More Squeak in Kathmandu

Hi Yoshiki,

On 15/11/2007, Yoshiki Ohshima <[hidden email]> wrote:
>   BTW, you know Madhur Shrestha and Hayasaka-san, right?  There are a
> lot of heavy Etoys users in Japan.  It would be fantastic if JICA or
> some organization can fund one of these hackers to fly...

Yes, thanks to Alan and Kim I do know Madhur and I've visited his
nifty Squeak saturday-school. I don't know Hayasaka-san but Madhur did
mention that a Japanese friend had put him on to Squeak in the first
place.

Let me make a standing invitation that if any Squeak/Etoys guru finds
themself in south asia we'd be more than happy to entertain them in
the beautiful Kathmandu valley while they teach us a few programming
tricks - but they must be prepared for tough questions :-)

By the way! Squeakers may get a kick to see the job advertisment that
we're currently running in Kathmandu to bring our full-time Nepali
Squeak-programmer staff up from two people to four (plus me):

Job description:

Develop children's learning activities for the One Laptop Per Child XO
using Squeak Smalltalk and Etoys.

Skills:

    * Experience with an object-oriented programming language such as
Smalltalk, Python, or Ruby.
    * Demonstrated ability to write good software quickly.
    * Self-motivated, eager to learn new technologies, experienced at
working in a team environment.

Preferred:

    * Experience with Linux and working on open-source projects.
    * Interest in education.

You will quickly learn Squeak Smalltalk programming and Etoys end-user
scripting on the job. You can get a sense of what this is like from
reading our blog and running our demonstration.

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On 15/11/2007, Yoshiki Ohshima <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > By the way! Squeakers may get a kick to see the job advertisment that
> > we're currently running in Kathmandu to bring our full-time Nepali
> > Squeak-programmer staff up from two people to four (plus me):
>
>   Wow. This would be almost ideal for a guy like Yokokawa-san, except
> that he is Japanese^^;

He's more than welcome to get in touch if he's seriously interested!
Foreigner visitors who can teach us tricks would be really valuable
and there's plenty of hacking to go around :-) I'm Australian myself.

>   It's a long shot, but folks are organizing a Squeak/Etoys gathering
> in Nagasaki, Japan on December 9th.

This is worth mentioning! I don't think it's practical right now but I
will check for bargain flights :-)

The main plan I have for meeting Squeak hackers is to come to C5 in
France mid-january (i.e. the distant future). Is this the right idea?
(And do I understand correctly from the website that registration
isn't open yet?)

Cheers,
-Luke

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Greeting, Luke -

It's delightful to learn you are hoping to come to C5 -- we are  
testing registration now, and it should be open by next week.  We'll  
send an announcement to this and other lists as soon as it is up.

Hope to meet you there!
regards,
Kim

On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:01 AM, Luke Gorrie wrote:


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