Hi Martin,

Maybe my "CorridorGame" project could be of interest to you. It is a
research/educational thing; I have build several versions over the last
years, dealing with metapopulation dynamics in different spatial
configurations (with and without nature corridors). Some documentation
and a link to a basic one (as a Squeak project to be loaded in the
browser plugin) is available at: 

http://www.corridor.alterra.nl


I use Smalltalk for all my ecological modelling projects, both
VisualWorks and Squeak. The first for the serious, calculation-intensive
projects (like large-scale individual-based (= agent-based) population
modelling, e.g. http://www.movement.alterra.nl), the second more for the
fun, eductional projects, with a lot of "interactivity"

Success!

Hans Baveco




-----Original Message-----
From: Martin McClure [mailto:martin at hand2mouse.com] 
Sent: dinsdag 14 maart 2006 23:56
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Please recommend Squeak projects for presentation

Hi all,

I'm presenting a seminar in April
* titled "Real-World Uses of Smalltalk, or What Do People Actually Do
   with Smalltalk?"
* at the Smalltalk Solutions / LinuxWorld / NetworkWorld conference
   in Toronto.
* My hope is to entice attendees that don't know Smalltalk to want
   to learn more about it.
I'm hoping that you can recommend several projects that use Squeak for
me to mention.

I need recommendations by this Friday, March 17, if at all possible.
Please reply off-list.

To demonstrate that Smalltalk is used for all kinds of things, I want to
include a very wide variety of Smalltalk uses -- large commercial
Smalltalk applications, Smalltalk in research, Smalltalk in
entertainment, Smalltalk with billions of persistent objects, Smalltalk
in tiny embedded devices, and more.


Please recommend projects with these traits:
* Currently active:
   The Smalltalk application should be actively used today, or be
   approaching deployment. I'll also consider applications that were
   designed for limited-time uses that were fairly recent.
* Interesting or unusual:
   I'm sure I'll end up mentioning several large Smalltalk financial
   applications, but I also want to include some quirky little projects
   that aren't well known.
* Readily-available information:
   If there is information about the project or company available on
   the web, that makes things easier for me, and I can include the URI
   in the seminar notes so attendees can find more depth on projects
   that interest them.


I'm looking for up to a dozen or so projects that use Squeak.
I plan to spend an average of 30 seconds on each, and to cover a total
of about 40 projects.  With each project you recommend, please include
as much of the following information as you have:

* The name of the project

* The company or organization doing the project

* A brief description (1-3 sentences) of what the project does

* What role Smalltalk plays in the project

* When the project started

* Current project status

* Any known URIs of web information about the project or company


In order to get project information compiled for the seminar handout, I
need as many recommendations as possible to be in by this Friday, March
17.

More information about my seminar is at
http://www.lwnwexpo.plumcom.ca/session_detail.cfm?id=241. Please feel
free to email me with any other questions or comments.

Many thanks,

-Martin McClure