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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-unicode"> On 08/02/2010 12:09 PM, Serge
Stinckwich wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi all,
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<br>
we are now 13 people registered on the Smalltalk-vn
mailing-list.
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<br>
What have been done in the previous months since the creation of
the
<br>
mailing-list in June 2008:
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- June 2008: Creation of the Smalltalk-vn mailing list
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/smalltalk-vn">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/smalltalk-vn</a>
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- Jan 2009: Smalltalk flyer in vietnamese, thanks to Nguyen Hong
Son :
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st/seaside/pier/Smalltalk/flyers">http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st/seaside/pier/Smalltalk/flyers</a>
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- April 2009: Presentation of Smalltalk at BarCamp Hanoi 2009:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.slideshare.net/SergeStinckwich/smalltalk-bar-camp-hanoi-2009">http://www.slideshare.net/SergeStinckwich/smalltalk-bar-camp-hanoi-2009</a>
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- September 2009: Presentation of EToys in Ha Noi:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.slideshare.net/SergeStinckwich/an-instrument-whose-music-is-ideas-2036947">http://www.slideshare.net/SergeStinckwich/an-instrument-whose-music-is-ideas-2036947</a>
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- May 2010: Talk at IFI/Ha Noi about Pharo Smalltalk:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.slideshare.net/SergeStinckwich/pharo-an-innovative-and-opensource-smalltalk">http://www.slideshare.net/SergeStinckwich/pharo-an-innovative-and-opensource-smalltalk</a>
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- June 2010: OLPC Vietnam dev meetinghttp://olpc.vn/
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- July 2010: Magic-Words project with a group of vietnamese
students
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://code.google.com/p/magic-words/">http://code.google.com/p/magic-words/</a>
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I put everything on this web page:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Smalltalk_in_Vietnam">http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Smalltalk_in_Vietnam</a>
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You could add your name in the list if you want (just ask me for
<br>
login/password).
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<br>
This is quite a small community at the moment and i'm looking
for more
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ideas to have more people joining us.
<br>
Maybe we could organize a Smalltalk meeting every week or every
two
<br>
weeks: just to talk, do some peer programming and do some nice
<br>
demonstrations.
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I'm also happy to do a talk in your company/institution if there
<br>
enough people interested.
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<br>
BTW, do'nt shy to talk here and express your opinons. You can
even
<br>
speak in Vietnamese if you prefer ;^-)
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Regards,
<br>
</blockquote>
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Hi all,
<br>
<br>
There are many practically difficulties about growing the
Smalltalk community in Vietnam. The biggest problem, I believe,
is that there very few people know about Smalltalk and its
programming paradigm. In Vietnam, students learn Pascal from
secondary school and high school, even in university, they are
taught mostly VB, C/C++, Java and .NET languages (VB.NET, C# for
almost all situations) which are at different paradigm from
Smalltalk. Thus, the vital point to grow our Smalltalk-VN
community is to raise people's awareness about the Smalltalk
language, its implementations, what it can do, and how things are
done in Smalltalk. Personally, that's what I'm trying to do,
little by little. To do it, we need to make a clear and flexible
plan.
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<br>
Another problem we are having is that, well, our community is
small but we have not yet known each other. So when one has some
problems while learning and doing programming with Smalltalk, s/he
is shy to get help, to make it a topic for everyone to discuss
about it. I like Serge's idea about having a weekly or biweekly
meeting. Like he said, we could get to know each other, talk
about Smalltalk and its development direction, do some
demonstrations and presentations, discuss, make some tutorials
(since there are few of tutorials compared to other "popular"
languages) and improve them, ... It's all good for us, it does
not cost a lot of time, and it's fun!
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<br>
I'd love to hear ideas from you guys. If you are afraid of long
writing, it's okay. Just drop a line about the time and we could
have an offline meeting.
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<br>
Best regards,
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-txt-sig"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Yang Nguyen
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Life is a hack
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