On 14-07-2016, at 5:22 AM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:56:54AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
As these dates suggest, our goal is to have the release before this
year's
ESUG. However, there is another important Smalltalk-related event this
year:
20 years of Squeak. :-) Yeah! It was around October 1996, when the first Squeak came into the world. ...having its own worlds. :D So, it would
only
make sense to also have a special release for this birthday. For this,
we
revived all of the cool multimedia content, known from Squeak 1 through Squeak 3, and made it fit for the current Squeak code base. Oh, this is
so
exciting. :-)
This is awesome and deserves its own thread!!
+1
Could design a t-shirt? I imagine something like "20 Years of Squeak" and a big Squeak logo surrounded by the big projects that came out of Squeak (Etoys, Scratch, Croquet, Seaside, Pharo, Cuis, OpenSmalltalk, NewSpeak ...)
Good idea. I want one :-)
Then you shall have one, young man.
Once we agree on a suitable list of endorsements I can easily build the graphic and we can emplace it on Tshirts, sweats, websites, condoms, office buildings as appropriate.
This is also a good time to mention the Magic Donate Button on squeak.org. A lot of people have had a lot of fun using Squeak over the last 20 years. A non-trivial number have made a good deal of money from using it. Several companies have done well from it. Time to give back a bit.
How about a personal dollar-a-year? How about a business dollar-a-day? For US based donors, the Squeak Foundation is a chapter of the Software Freedom Conservancy and thus donations are mostly tax-deductable ( see https://sfconservancy.org/donate/) so how about making it a dollar-33-a-day?
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful random insult:- So dumb, blondes tell jokes about him.