Hi everyone,
the schedule for Squeakfest USA is now online! Have a look at it here:
http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/schedule/
Registration is still open here:
http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/register/
Rita Freudenberg rita@squeakland.org
On Aug 3, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Rita Freudenberg wrote:
Hi everyone,
the schedule for Squeakfest USA is now online! Have a look at it here:
http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/schedule/
Registration is still open here:
http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/register/
Rita Freudenberg rita@squeakland.org
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
Scott Wallace wrote:
-- 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.
I noticed two sessions:
= MON, AUG 10th = 4pm .. Software Summit Sit in on a Squeakland software team meeting and help plan the next release of Etoys. The future of Squeak and Etoys will also be discussed.
= WED, AUG 12th = 3 to 5pm: The Future of Etoys A group discussion where we'll describe what we like best about Etoys, what we'd like to change, and how we'd like to see Etoys and Squeakland progress in the future.
This is something I am very interested in and it was unfortunate, though very natural, that we did not have this kind of discussion in SqueakFest Brazil (which had a more introductory focus). I hope that any conclusions reached in these sessions will be made available in some form.
Of course, Scott's own "Etoys Secrets" session will be another one that I will be sorry to miss. Have fun, people! -- Jecel
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