<font face="arial" size="2"><DIV>I'll sponsor you, but I need someone to loan me the 1200 USD so I can sponsor you so you can participate.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyone interested?<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: st&eacute;phane ducasse <ducasse@iam.unibe.ch><BR>Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:43am<BR>To: Bruce Badger <bwbadger@gmail.com><BR>Cc: VWNC, <vwnc@cs.uiuc.edu>, VWDEV List <vw-dev@parcplace.net>, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>, VSE Mailing List <VSWE-L@listserv.dfn.de>, Croquet-dev <croquet@lists.wisc.edu>, seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org, GNU Smalltalk <help-smalltalk@gnu.org><BR>Subject: Re: ANSI Smalltalk<BR><BR>who wants to sponsor me?<BR>I'm sorry but I do not have 1200 USD to be able to participate.<BR><BR>Stef<BR><BR>On 13 nov. 07, at 10:50, Bruce Badger wrote:<BR><BR>> Fellow Smalltalkers,<BR>><BR>> (this is a one-off to every Smalltalk list I can think of. Sorry for<BR>> the Spam-esqe nature of this)<BR>><BR>> Work is under way to get the Smalltalk ANSI standardization process<BR>> restarted. This is intended to be an on-going process which delivers<BR>> a new version of the standard every 18 months to 2 years.<BR>><BR>> The participation of all Smalltalkers is invited. The ANSI standard<BR>> should be driven by the people who use Smalltalk as well as people who<BR>> develop Smalltalk environments. Work on the standard will all happen<BR>> through a mailing list:<BR>><BR>> http://lists.openskills.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ansi-smalltalk<BR>><BR>> The list archive is open and anyone may join the list. The only up<BR>> front requirement being that you give your full name when signing up<BR>> so everyone knows who is who.<BR>><BR>> While anyone can get involved in discussion and informal votes, only<BR>> people who are registered with the ANSI project may formally vote.<BR>> Registration in this context means joining INCITS (the organization<BR>> which coordinates IT ANSI standards work), and that costs $1,200 USD.<BR>><BR>> Already we have the Smalltalk vendor companies getting involved. We<BR>> also need people representing the user community. If you work in a<BR>> company that uses Smalltalk please raise this ANSI work at your next<BR>> team meeting and see if you can have someone (or more than one) from<BR>> your project join the ANSI Smalltalk mailing list. Perhaps your<BR>> company could fund the $1,200 to have someone be a voting member of<BR>> the committee too.<BR>><BR>> If you wish to discuss the ANSI project please either join the mailing<BR>> list or post a message to comp.lang.smalltalk. The news group is the<BR>> cross-dialect discussion forum for Smalltalk and the ANSI standard is<BR>> most certainly cross-dialect.<BR>><BR>> Best regards,<BR>> Bruce<BR>> -- <BR>> Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills<BR>> http://www.openskills.org/<BR>><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>CEO, SAGETEA Group<BR>http://sageteagroup.com<BR>cell) 613 796 3048<BR>main) 613 821 2546<BR>"Your business, your way"</DIV></font>