> thanks for the report :-) Anything new to 0.3 Croquet ? Have they  
> mentioned when to next release could come ? There is nowhere any  
> information (Blogs or Website, at least I don't found it...)

The new release of Croquet, titled Hedgehog, is supposed to be  
released pretty soon (something like next month).

Cheers,
Alexandre


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> Hans
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> Am 20.10.2005 um 16:52 schrieb Alexandre Bergel:
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>> Today is the last day of oopsla. It was a really cool surprise to  
>> see how many times Smalltalk was cited during talks and how many  
>> compliments it obtained. Here some particular moment I enjoyed:
>>     - Before the keynote of Mary Beth, James Noble said something  
>> like: "Eclipse tries to achieve something that Smalltalk did 20  
>> years ago, and remains still behind". The room was completely full  
>> at that time.
>>     - The room where the Croquet workshop hold was completely  
>> full, even if the organization was a bit shaky (please, do not  
>> take it bad :-), this was really cool! The room was completely  
>> full, and it did not contains only smalltalkers, but also people  
>> who were just curious and wanted to learn more.
>>     - David Reed gave a talk on Croquet, and the room was really  
>> big, and was completely full.
>>     - Roel Wuyts was chair of the Symposium on Dynamic Languages.  
>> And again, the room was too small to contain all the attendees :-)  
>> Especially for the very last talk given by Brian Foote; the doors  
>> had to left open in order to make people standing  outside able to  
>> listen.
>>     - Martin McClure organized a Squeak BOF. That was really cool.  
>> Again, some people came here just to learn more about squeak/ 
>> smalltalk.
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>> I was also delighted to see that some technical presentations in  
>> the research tracks shown DrScheme into action. Kathryn did a demo  
>> using DrScheme, and it was really cool!
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>> Also, I felt that Smalltalk had more attention than Ruby and other  
>> Python. This oopsla was a wonderful opportunity to meet people in  
>> real.
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>> Keep going Smalltalkers! We have cool things to show, and we have  
>> to show them!
>> I would like to give big hands to Roel and Martin to have  
>> organized their events.
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>> Cheers,
>> Alexandre
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