Squeak - for a different Summer of Code!

> Squeak is an open source dialect of Smalltalk, a pure OO programming
> language that takes object orientation principles to their limits.
> Development in Squeak will be quite different from what you may
> experience in Java, C#, Ruby or Python, yet it will be very fulfilling.
>
> So, why not Squeak for the Summer of Code?
>
> Squeak will offer you:
> a productive environment to develop your ideas - a great community
> a first class mentoring program - appreciation and value for your work
>
> Possible project areas include:
> Virtual Machine - Compiler
> User Interface - OS Integration
> Development and End-user Tools
> The Seaside Web Framework
> and many more!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:beginners-
> [hidden email]] On Behalf Of Serge Stinckwich
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 4:12 AM
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> Subject: [Newbies] Re: Squeak - for a different Summer of Code!
>
> Giovanni Corriga a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > as you may know, Squeak has been accepted as a mentoring organization
> > for the Google Summer of Code 2007 program.
>
>
> Great work Giovanni !!! You did a better work than me. Last year, i had
> tried to contact Google, but I had no success.
>
> > Squeak is an open source dialect of Smalltalk, a pure OO programming
> > language that takes object orientation principles to their limits.
> > Development in Squeak will be quite different from what you may
> > experience in Java, C#, Ruby or Python, yet it will be very fulfilling.
> >
> > So, why not Squeak for the Summer of Code?
> >
> > Squeak will offer you:
> > a productive environment to develop your ideas - a great community
> > a first class mentoring program - appreciation and value for your work
> >
> > Possible project areas include:
> > Virtual Machine - Compiler
> > User Interface - OS Integration
> > Development and End-user Tools
> > The Seaside Web Framework
> > and many more!
>
> Is the list of SOC projects close ? I would to propose to work on a
> better multilingual support for Squeak. At the moment, it's difficult to
> translate the Squeak interface, because there is several Squeak image
> (Squeakland, 3.9, OLPC, ...). I think we could improve Yoshiki's work in
> order to have a central repository for the translations (maybe something
> like Rosetta : https://launchpad.net/rosetta) and a more modular
> approach in order to attach messages catalog to packages and not to the
> whole image.
>
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> Il giorno ven, 16/03/2007 alle 09.12 +0100, Serge Stinckwich ha scritto:
>  
>> Giovanni Corriga a écrit :
>>    
>
>  
>> Is the list of SOC projects close ? I would to propose to work on a
>> better multilingual support for Squeak. At the moment, it's difficult to
>> translate the Squeak interface, because there is several Squeak image
>> (Squeakland, 3.9, OLPC, ...). I think we could improve Yoshiki's work in
>> order to have a central repository for the translations (maybe something
>> like Rosetta : https://launchpad.net/rosetta) and a more modular
>> approach in order to attach messages catalog to packages and not to the
>> whole image.
>>    
>
> I think that as long as we don't remove the other proposals, we can add
> as many project as we want. Serge, are you willing to mentor for it? If
> so, please send me a message, so that I can add you to the mailing lists
> etc.
>
> Giovanni
>
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm a newbie on Squeak and I have been using only eToys and BotsInc
> environment for teaching introductory courses on Informatics. But I
> think that would be nice a project which combines content creation for
> the OLPC image of Squeak with the creation/adaptation of tools for
> making that content more easy for authoring and localization to multiple
> languages. This would be a project not centered on code but is going
> from content to code and from software to "humanware" (part of the
> project is using the OLPC image to create content with children of
> schools). Do you think that there is a place for such proposal in SOC
> (Google is a sponsor of OLPC project). ¿Some one would be willing to
> mentor it?

> On 16/03/07, Ron Teitelbaum <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > http://code.google.com/soc/
> >
> > Ron
>
> I notice that there are projects in the SOC list for wxWidgets and
> wxPython. I wonder if anyone would be prepared to mentor a student to
> bring wxSqueak up to date with 3.9/3.10? I don't know if this is a
> trival or a major task, but it would be a good opportunity to ensure
> that any work on wxWidgets helps resolve any integration issues that
> wxSqueak has (if any).
>
> I've played with wxSqueak and thought that it was fun to use, but
> would feel happier to start using it in anger if I could just load it
> in  to an image from SqueakMap.
>
> Does anyone actually use wxSqueak? Would it be useful to make it a
> "full citizen"?

> Il giorno ven, 16/03/2007 alle 11.49 -0500, Offray Vladimir Luna
> Cárdenas ha scritto:
>  
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm a newbie on Squeak and I have been using only eToys and BotsInc
>> environment for teaching introductory courses on Informatics. But I
>> think that would be nice a project which combines content creation for
>> the OLPC image of Squeak with the creation/adaptation of tools for
>> making that content more easy for authoring and localization to multiple
>> languages. This would be a project not centered on code but is going
>> from content to code and from software to "humanware" (part of the
>> project is using the OLPC image to create content with children of
>> schools). Do you think that there is a place for such proposal in SOC
>> (Google is a sponsor of OLPC project). ¿Some one would be willing to
>> mentor it?
>>    
>
> Hi Offray,
>
> the idea is good, but I don't know if it suits the purpose of Summer of
> Code, which is to produce working code.
>  

> Hi,
>
> Giovanni Corriga escribió:
> > Il giorno ven, 16/03/2007 alle 11.49 -0500, Offray Vladimir Luna
> > Cárdenas ha scritto:
> >  
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm a newbie on Squeak and I have been using only eToys and BotsInc
> >> environment for teaching introductory courses on Informatics. But I
> >> think that would be nice a project which combines content creation for
> >> the OLPC image of Squeak with the creation/adaptation of tools for
> >> making that content more easy for authoring and localization to multiple
> >> languages. This would be a project not centered on code but is going
> >> from content to code and from software to "humanware" (part of the
> >> project is using the OLPC image to create content with children of
> >> schools). Do you think that there is a place for such proposal in SOC
> >> (Google is a sponsor of OLPC project). ¿Some one would be willing to
> >> mentor it?
> >>    
> >
> > Hi Offray,
> >
> > the idea is good, but I don't know if it suits the purpose of Summer of
> > Code, which is to produce working code.
> >  
>
> The idea would be to produce code to facilitate the creation of
> folkloric narrative multilingual content on OLPC image. For example
> Scratch has an option to make the objects say things in a balloon. In
> Squeak you can make the same changing the help balloon, but you can't
> make it as easy as with Scratch, and can't not say which position will
> the balloon have in the screen or the translucency, or the color of the
> voice (say  a character always say things in a blue voice), and I would
> like to make this features eToys available for all objects, but may be
> making this is to easy for the SoC.

> > Aside from that, I haven't understood if you'd like to do this, and
> > you're looking for someone to mentor you, of if you're just proposing
> > the idea to see if someone wants to go with it.
> >  
>
> Both can work. This is something in I would like to work on even if this
> doesn't fit the objective of SoC, so asking the seasoned squeaker was a
> way to know how much sense made this. May be I can try to make it in the
> summer vacation and ask for some pointers in the list, so I can try to
> make some development and, at the same time preparing my self for
> SoC2008 :-)

>> Both can work. This is something in I would like to work on even if this
>> doesn't fit the objective of SoC, so asking the seasoned squeaker was a
>> way to know how much sense made this. May be I can try to make it in the
>> summer vacation and ask for some pointers in the list, so I can try to
>> make some development and, at the same time preparing my self for
>> SoC2008 :-)
>>    
>
> Well, if you have the requisites, why not apply now?
>
> Giovanni
>
>