On Aug 3, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Rita Freudenberg wrote:
For squeak-dev readers who may not have been enticed to follow the
urls Rita provides above, and who perhaps are not much focused on
education or etoys, it bears mentioning that:
-- Among the attendees at Squeakfest USA next week will be Andreas
Raab and Eliot Miranda.
-- Eliot is presenting a session entitled "Making Squeak Etoys Faster."
-- Alan Kay is giving the keynote.
-- Yoshiki, Ted, Takashi, Ian, and Kim of course will be there.
-- The Squeak Etoys community needs serious volunteer effort from
experienced Smalltalk programmers in order to evolve and explain and
enrich the system. Quite possibly, the community needs *you*.
-- It's hard to imagine what other Smalltalk programming effort could
have such far-reaching impact. Thanks to the presence of Etoys on the
olpc, the number of computers in the world which have Squeak installed
on them is now huge. So people who contribute software effort to the
evolving Squeak Etoys image will be touching the lives of millions of
children and other worthy users over the next couple of years.
-- (And for those who don't know: Squeak Etoys is a full-scale 3.8-
based Squeak image, not a stripped-down or dumbed-down system. With a
few changes of Preferences it will be seen to be a familiar,
undiluted, license-clean, Squeak 3.8, with the addition of several
years of mostly olpc-oriented development.)
So if you're in the area and if you think you might be interested in
contributing to a Squeak system already found on nearly a million
computers worldwide, please join us at Squeakfest -- next week Monday
through Wednesday, on the UCLA campus.
-- Scott
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