Hi folks

as I pointed out earlier I've registered Squeak on http://www.hackontest.ch

"Can you code 24 hours non-stop? Hackontest is a new Google-sponsored 24-hour programming competition between different open source projects. Its goals are to enhance Free Software projects according to user needs and to make visible how enthusiastically open source software is being developed. During the current online selection process users and developers of open source software may submit feature requests and rate and comment them. On August 1st, 2008 the Hackontest jury will pick the three most promising teams. Each team will receive a free trip to Switzerland on September 24/25, 2008 to participate in the competition located in Zurich. Hacking 24 hours inside an etoy.CONTAINER, the teams and their virtually present communities will implement certain features based on the online ratings and jury selection. In the end, the Hackontest jury evaluates the code and awards the winners with a total of USD 8500. The jury is made up of 10 renowned open source contributors: Jeremy Alison (Samba), Jono Bacon (Ubuntu), Brian W. Fitzpatrick (Subversion), Martin F. Krafft (Debian), Alexander Limi (Plone), Federico Mena- Quintero (GNOME), Bram Moolenaar (vim), Bruce Perens (OSI founder), Lukas K. Smith (PHP) and Harald Welte (gpl-violations.org)."

For a more detailed description what hackontest is about see the "word from the sponsor" at http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/happy-hacking-real- time.html

It is absolutely ok to register the requests you yourself would like to work on.

So please feel very free to - register on http://www.hackontest.ch (make sure to press the submit/ login buttons, simple enter did not work for me), - add you favorite project to Squeak - and start rating.

I think having some feature requests there would also help us to advertise for "All things Squeak" in general.

Cheers

Markus

p.s. We definitely should have some Etoy related project, as the event will be hosted by the art group called Etoy.com :-) http://etoy.com/blog/archive/2008/04/22/etoy-got-slash-dotted.html