Plans for 5.3 Morphic / Readability (Re: Squeak Oversight Board Election 2019)

Am 14.01.2019 13:57:09 schrieb H. Hirzel <[hidden email]>:

Hello Marcel

a question, see below.

Regards
Hannes

On 1/11/19, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
> Hi, there.
>
> I would like to continue serving on the Squeak Oversight Board in 2019, too.
> My main interests encompass user interaction (Morphic),
> code modularity
> (readability/extensibility),

What are your suggestions / plans for 5.3 for enhancing the Morphic
user interaction expericence?

How do you think better readability of code could be achived?

> backwards compatibility (Etoys), and
> programming/productivity tools.
>
> During the past years, it has been a healthy mix of promising ideas,
> enlightening discussions, and challenging viewpoints. I do value such
> programming experiences as a great addition to my daily life. Squeak's
> community is great! Thank you. :-)
>
> Let us continue shaping Squeak for many opportunities to come! It is an
> intriguing programming system with its liveness promoting exploratory
> working habits. What a time to be a "programmer". ;-)
>
> Best,
> Marcel
> Am 10.01.2019 20:38:30 schrieb Ron Teitelbaum :
> Hi All,
>
> Thank you Craig for jumping right in! I would encourage everyone else to
> follow Craig's lead. I know some people like to wait but the more
> candidates the better.
>
> The lack of candidates shouldn't be an incentive for people to run and a
> large number of candidates shouldn't be a reason for you to decide against
> volunteering to run! We have had some excellent people run and not be
> elected that would have been terrific members of the board! You show your
> commitment to Squeak just by running! For those of you that say you don't
> have the time or are not sure what you would have to do, we have had some
> excellent answers in the past. There is no requirement or specific demands
> and the board decides when and how it will meet. Most, if not all, meetings
> are electronic so the demands on your time are very low! Plus the members
> are all terrific people you will enjoy working with!
>
> Jump on in and add your name to the candidate list!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:49 AM Craig Latta
> [mailto:[hidden email]]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all--
>
> I'd like to serve on the Squeak Oversight Board in 2019. With you
> and my fellow board members, I intend to continue...
>
> - ...representing Squeak at conferences, including ESUG and the
> International Conference on Live Coding[1].
>
> - ...maintaining the agenda and notes at the board meetings. I
> anticipate having the time to make posts to the board blog this
> term.
>
> - ...developing symbiosis between the Squeak, JavaScript, and Web
> platform communities through my work with Caffeine[2] and
> SqueakJS[3].
>
> I would be honored to have your vote.
>
>
> cheers!
>
> Craig
>
> --
>
> [1] http://iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2019/ingles.html
> [http://iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2019/ingles.html]
> [2] https://caffeine.js.org [https://caffeine.js.org]
> [3] https://squeak.js.org [https://squeak.js.org]
>
> --
> Craig Latta
> Black Page Digital
> Amsterdam :: San Francisco
> [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]
> +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok)
> + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS)
>
>
>

Am 16.09.2019 19:14:07 schrieb H. Hirzel <[hidden email]>:

Hello Marcel

Below is list of ideas you made early January about possible
additions for the Squeak 5.3 release. Quite a number of points have
been realized.

Could you please mark the one(s) you think which still could be done
in the remaining two or three weeks?

I will have a look at it as well in the upcoming days.
Good to see your focus on Text widgets / Text paragraph composition.

Maybe we still can do something about the flaps.

@ Tim : what are your preferences?

Kind regards
Hannes

On 1/16/19, Marcel Taeumel wrote:

> Hi Hannes,
>
> I have been taking notes and collecting ideas for the following (unordered /
> not prioritized / incomplete) list of concerns in Squeak:
>
> - Flaps (code clean-up, conceptual improvements)
> - User-input events (extract from Morphic into base system)
> - Etoys (code clean-up)
> - Text widgets (code clean-up, conceptual improvements)
> - Text/paragraph composition (extract from Morphic into base system)
> - Tool support for UI-theme design
> - Tool support for release manager
> - Smart splitters (performance and configurable animation)
> - List widgets (drop-down list, multi-selection in any list, multi-column
> trees, etc.)
> - Error handling for bad Morphic event handlers (similar to drawing errors)
> - Object Collection Tool (see inbox "Tool-mt.535"
> or http://forum.world.st/The-Inbox-Tools-mt-536-mcz-td4808731.html
> [http://forum.world.st/The-Inbox-Tools-mt-536-mcz-td4808731.html])
>
> Best,
> Marcel
> Am 14.01.2019 13:57:09 schrieb H. Hirzel :
> Hello Marcel
>
> a question, see below.
>
> Regards
> Hannes
>
> On 1/11/19, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
>> Hi, there.
>>
>> I would like to continue serving on the Squeak Oversight Board in 2019,
>> too.
>> My main interests encompass user interaction (Morphic),
>> code modularity
>> (readability/extensibility),
>
> What are your suggestions / plans for 5.3 for enhancing the Morphic
> user interaction expericence?
>
> How do you think better readability of code could be achived?
>
>> backwards compatibility (Etoys), and
>> programming/productivity tools.
>>
>> During the past years, it has been a healthy mix of promising ideas,
>> enlightening discussions, and challenging viewpoints. I do value such
>> programming experiences as a great addition to my daily life. Squeak's
>> community is great! Thank you. :-)
>>
>> Let us continue shaping Squeak for many opportunities to come! It is an
>> intriguing programming system with its liveness promoting exploratory
>> working habits. What a time to be a "programmer". ;-)
>>
>> Best,
>> Marcel
>> Am 10.01.2019 20:38:30 schrieb Ron Teitelbaum :
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Thank you Craig for jumping right in! I would encourage everyone else to
>> follow Craig's lead. I know some people like to wait but the more
>> candidates the better.
>>
>> The lack of candidates shouldn't be an incentive for people to run and a
>> large number of candidates shouldn't be a reason for you to decide
>> against
>> volunteering to run! We have had some excellent people run and not be
>> elected that would have been terrific members of the board! You show your
>> commitment to Squeak just by running! For those of you that say you don't
>> have the time or are not sure what you would have to do, we have had some
>> excellent answers in the past. There is no requirement or specific
>> demands
>> and the board decides when and how it will meet. Most, if not all,
>> meetings
>> are electronic so the demands on your time are very low! Plus the members
>> are all terrific people you will enjoy working with!
>>
>> Jump on in and add your name to the candidate list!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ron Teitelbaum
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:49 AM Craig Latta
>> [mailto:[hidden email]]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi all--
>>
>> I'd like to serve on the Squeak Oversight Board in 2019. With you
>> and my fellow board members, I intend to continue...
>>
>> - ...representing Squeak at conferences, including ESUG and the
>> International Conference on Live Coding[1].
>>
>> - ...maintaining the agenda and notes at the board meetings. I
>> anticipate having the time to make posts to the board blog this
>> term.
>>
>> - ...developing symbiosis between the Squeak, JavaScript, and Web
>> platform communities through my work with Caffeine[2] and
>> SqueakJS[3].
>>
>> I would be honored to have your vote.
>>
>>
>> cheers!
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> --
>>
>> [1] http://iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2019/ingles.html
>> [http://iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2019/ingles.html]
>> [2] https://caffeine.js.org [https://caffeine.js.org]
>> [3] https://squeak.js.org [https://squeak.js.org]
>>
>> --
>> Craig Latta
>> Black Page Digital
>> Amsterdam :: San Francisco
>> [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]
>> +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok)
>> + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS)
>>
>>
>>
>