[squeak-dev] Another Nomination for the Squeak Foundation

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Thu Feb 21 21:21:39 UTC 2008


Dan are you really coming back to squeak or just to the  
squeakfoundation?

Stef


>> 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!
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> Is it really that?
> I do not really think so.
>
> Stef
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>> Janko
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>> 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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