[squeak-dev] Another Nomination for the Squeak Foundation

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Thu Feb 21 19:31:42 UTC 2008


On Feb 21, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Janko Mivšek wrote:

> That's really wonderful news and many thanks to Dan deciding to come  
> back into more active role in Squeak community. Community really  
> needs angels like Dan!

Is it really that?
I do not really think so.

Stef

>
>
> Janko
>
> Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> I would like to nominate another person for the Squeak Foundation  
>> Board.
>> This person is a founding member of our community and the principal
>> architect of five generations of Smalltalk environments.  He is the  
>> inventor
>> of BitBlt as well as the designer of the first byte-coded VM in  
>> 1976.  He
>> also worked with John Maloney to create Morphic.  We are very  
>> fortunate to
>> have been able to encourage him to run for the board.
>> It is with great pleasure that I nominate Dan Ingalls for the Squeak
>> Foundation Board.
>> Dan is and has always been an active member of our community.  You  
>> can see
>> him jumping in on conversations, posting about his work and  
>> contributing to
>> this community.  Dan is currently working at Sun building a Squeak- 
>> Like
>> Morphic implementation that runs on a VM but that uses only  
>> JavaScript on
>> the client browser.  This is very exciting and a Lively Kernel for  
>> future
>> development.
>> Dan is also aware of the challenges facing our community in terms of
>> organization, licensing and development direction.  He is willing  
>> to help us
>> as much as he can because as he says, "I feel a strong commitment to
>> Squeak".
>> Please welcome Dan Ingalls to the Squeak Foundation 2008 Election.
>> Thank you,
>> Ron Teitelbaum
>> Squeak Community Member
>
> -- 
> Janko Mivšek
> AIDA/Web
> Smalltalk Web Application Server
> http://www.aidaweb.si
>
>




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