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khinsen

Pharo at JPL

Hi everyone,

I just saw the news (on Twitter) that JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory) has joined the Pharo Consortium. Does anyone here know what
JPL is doing with Pharo? If it's related to scientific/engineering
applications, that would be a nice marketing argument in the
scientific/engineering community.

Konrad.

tbrunz

Re: Pharo at JPL

Hi Konrad,

I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree
to join the Consortium.

I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get
Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.

I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:

* Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization,
* Modeling and simulation,
* Internal web servers,
* Custom ground support & test systems,
* Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".

I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using
Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.

I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & training,
and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both
engineers and managers -- to see the potential.

Wish me luck!
-Ted

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Richard Sargent

Re: Pharo at JPL

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:27 PM tbrunz <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Konrad,

I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree
to join the Consortium.

I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get
Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.

I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:

* Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization,
* Modeling and simulation,
* Internal web servers,
* Custom ground support & test systems,
* Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".

I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using
Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.

I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & training,
and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both
engineers and managers -- to see the potential.

Wish me luck!
-Ted

Good luck! And Well Done!!

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Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2

Re: Pharo at JPL

In reply to this post by tbrunz

Ted,

Thanks for this advocacy and best of lucks.

Cheers,

Offray

On 28/08/20 5:27 p. m., tbrunz wrote:

> Hi Konrad,
>
> I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree
> to join the Consortium.
>
> I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get
> Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.
>
> I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:
>
> * Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization,
> * Modeling and simulation,
> * Internal web servers,
> * Custom ground support & test systems,
> * Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".
>
> I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using
> Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.
>
> I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & training,
> and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both
> engineers and managers -- to see the potential.
>
> Wish me luck!
> -Ted
>
>
>
> --
> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
>

tbrunz

Re: Pharo at JPL

Thanks!

And I want to give special thanks to Stef and to Alexandre Bergel for being
generous with their time in helping me with my advocacy.

It's just as you said, Offray: "We live in an attention economy" -- and the
competition is *fierce*!

(I think it's worse when you're dealing with educated professionals -- they
work hard, they play hard, and there's little left over to "learn something
new" sometimes. But I am not discouraged... I take the long view on this.
Computers taught me patience. I'm using that now... ;^)

-t

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tbrunz

Re: Pharo at JPL

JPL has its own Slack server... Of course I started a channel:

<http://forum.world.st/file/t372161/jpl-slack-pharo-channel.png>

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Stéphane Ducasse

Re: Pharo at JPL

In reply to this post by tbrunz

On 29 Aug 2020, at 01:46, tbrunz <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks!

And I want to give special thanks to Stef and to Alexandre Bergel for being
generous with their time in helping me with my advocacy.

It's just as you said, Offray: "We live in an attention economy" -- and the
competition is *fierce*!

Yes this is what many smalltalking people forgot. Pharo is in competition against

many large languages and we are not concerned with the little fight about other dead smalltalk compatibilities.

(I think it's worse when you're dealing with educated professionals -- they
work hard, they play hard, and there's little left over to "learn something
new" sometimes. But I am not discouraged... I take the long view on this.
Computers taught me patience. I'm using that now... ;^)

-t

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SergeStinckwich

Re: Pharo at JPL

In reply to this post by tbrunz

On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 06:27, tbrunz <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Konrad,

I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree
to join the Consortium.

I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get
Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.

I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:

* Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization,
* Modeling and simulation,
* Internal web servers,
* Custom ground support & test systems,
* Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".

I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using
Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.

I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & training,
and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both
engineers and managers -- to see the potential.

Dear Ted,

We share a lot of common interests with you and Konrad.

I'm the main architect of PolyMath: https://github.com/PolyMathOrg/PolyMath

for doing scientific computing with Pharo.

I'm also involved in Kendrick, a domain-specific language for doing epidemiological modelling: 

https://github.com/UNU-Macau/kendrick

and a multi-agent modelling platform called CORMAS:

https://github.com/cormas/cormas

Regards,

Serge Stinckwic

https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich

Craig Latta

Re: Pharo at JPL

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Good luck, Ted, and congratulations!

-C

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blackpagedigital.com
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khinsen

Re: Pharo at JPL

In reply to this post by tbrunz

Hi Ted,

> I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree
> to join the Consortium.

Congratulations! That must have been a significant effort.

> I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get
> Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.

That's what I am most interested in. I am in biophysics research myself,
where Pharo is best described as invisible and unheard of. So I wonder
which techniques could work for introducing and infusing.

> I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:
>
> * Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization,
> * Modeling and simulation,
> * Internal web servers,
> * Custom ground support & test systems,
> * Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".

That looks like a lot of people to convince!

> I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using
> Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.

Indeed, the hard part is getting started.

> Wish me luck!

All you need!

Konrad.