I wasn't planning on running for board this year, but if Jecel is willing to do it, busy as he is, I will too.
I fell away from the squeak community pretty badly in 2009, due to leaving home, starting grad school, and moving to the Cobalt project. I am now one of the two lead programmers on Cobalt. Since November 2009, I have been working with Andreas to rebase cobalt from its legacy 3.8 image base to the current trunk image. I intend to complete that rebase and I would like for Cobalt to be a testbed to gain practical experience on how to package a complex application for loading into squeak. It's big enough and different enough that it would be a good stress test for Metacello, but not as deeply integrated as Etoys. Hopefully the experience can be useful for future mergers with Pharo, Cuis, or Etoys.
I will not have much time to dedicate to squeak this next year. I would primarily like to serve as a Cobalt representative on the board, and to help the merge go smoothly.
Regarding the release, I back Andreas and Randal fully. I'm sorry 3.11 didn't go so well and am grateful they were able to revive the community. Thanks guys for doing what I failed to do with 3.11: get people involved.
On 2/27/2010 5:53 AM, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
I wasn't planning on running for board this year, but if Jecel is willing to do it, busy as he is, I will too.
Wow, what a nice surprise! Thank you for offering your services!
Cheers, - Andreas
I fell away from the squeak community pretty badly in 2009, due to leaving home, starting grad school, and moving to the Cobalt project. I am now one of the two lead programmers on Cobalt. Since November 2009, I have been working with Andreas to rebase cobalt from its legacy 3.8 image base to the current trunk image. I intend to complete that rebase and I would like for Cobalt to be a testbed to gain practical experience on how to package a complex application for loading into squeak. It's big enough and different enough that it would be a good stress test for Metacello, but not as deeply integrated as Etoys. Hopefully the experience can be useful for future mergers with Pharo, Cuis, or Etoys.
I will not have much time to dedicate to squeak this next year. I would primarily like to serve as a Cobalt representative on the board, and to help the merge go smoothly.
Regarding the release, I back Andreas and Randal fully. I'm sorry 3.11 didn't go so well and am grateful they were able to revive the community. Thanks guys for doing what I failed to do with 3.11: get people involved.
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