On 2024-02-11 08:52, Patrick R wrote:
Hi All,
It's that time again to raise your voices and elect your leaders! Can you believe it's been over a year and one day already?
It's a time for you to stand up, help your community and volunteer to serve!
Squeak wants you!
I would like to run for the Squeak oversight board again this year.
I have been enjoying Squeak as a hobbyist for quite a few years now. For me Squeak is educational and challenging, and I use it for all sorts of things like balancing my checkbooks, keeping shopping lists, and working out vehicle sequencing algorithms for automotive assembly plants.
As a hobby programmer, I have never made any money from Squeak and I probably couldn't do so even if I wanted to. But it would be wrong to say I have not benefited in a material way, because over the years Squeak has been the educational tool that enables me to understand how software can and should work. So now I find myself employable and engaged in creative and interesting work long after my colleagues have retired or otherwise been made redundant.
This is my way of saying that working and playing in Squeak is both an education and an investment in yourself. I want other people, especially younger folks, to be able to have similar experiences as Squeak evolves and adapts to changing operating systems, devices, and networks.
Keeping Squeak accessible for learning, and understandable top to bottom (including VMs), is a real challenge, and as a board member I hope to continue make that happen.
Thanks, and I hope that a few more people will step forward to volunteer for the board. We could use some more youth and diversity, so if you are interested and enthusiastic please join in. You don't have to be a tech wizard. Squeak is about vision, learning, human empowerment, stuff like that. The techie stuff you can look up on the internet, so don't worry about it :-)
Thanks, Dave