I hope that this is not an inappropriate request to place on this list -- if it is, please flame me privately ;-)
I'm a professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute, and my interest in Squeak has been growing steadily as I do more and more with it. But there is no Squeak "community" here at OGI. I have a sabbatical coming up next academic year (October 2001 onwards), and I would like to spend some part of it doing something that deepens my knowledge of Squeak, and hopefully contributes to the Squeak environment. Oh--and is fun!
Most likely, this would be some not-for-profit activity, perhaps one that draws on my interests in distributed systems, and contributes to the Squeak source pool; for this I would expect to get at least partial salary support from my University. But I would also be interested in doing some commercial O-O development in Squeak, particularly as part of an XP team.
See my web page at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black for more information about me. If you might be interested in talking further about my participation on your project, please contact me (off the list) mailto:black@cse.ogi.edu
Although October seems like a long way off, I do need to make plans fairly quickly with the University. At this point I'm looking for expressions of interest rather than a firm commitment.
Andrew