[squeak-dev] Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Fri Feb 20 18:40:44 UTC 2009


Yes and GTK is available


On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> I found the project list again:
>
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/squeak/about.html
>
> * Safarà: an Extensible Code Editor for Squeak
>  by Luigi Panzeri, mentored by Lukas Renggli
>
> * Squeak IRC bot framework
>  by Francois Stephany, mentored by Kenneth Lee Causey
> * Squeak GTK Support
>  by Gwenaël Casaccio, mentored by Stéphane Ducasse
> * freeCAD: 3D CAD with Motion Simulation Port to Croquet
>  by Phua Khai Fong, mentored by Aik-Siong Koh
> * OpenNARS port to Squeak using Seaside
>  by Cédrick Béler, mentored by Klaus D. Witzel
>
> Can I encourage every mentor to send a short status report on the  
> results of their project?

google GTK Squeak

>
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
> Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:09:35 +0100, Aik-Siong Koh wrote:
>>>> My experience with the The Squeak Project
>>>> GSOC 2008 was excellent and I believe the open source smalltalk  
>>>> community
>>>> has benefited a lot from his efforts.
>>>
>>> Benefited, really? To the best of [available] knowledge, someone  
>>> took Google's money from 2007 and 2008 and run away. Not _really_  
>>> a benefit for the community.
>> As far as I know the project Aik-Siong Koh was mentoring is the  
>> only one that is currently shipping (in Cobalt). And it is most  
>> definitely of great value to its community.
>> Your question may be worthwhile asking, but Aik-Siong Koh is  
>> probably not the person to direct it to. You might want to ask the  
>> students who took the money and didn't deliver. Or rather, their  
>> mentors. The list of accepted projects and the associated mentors  
>> is probably still available somewhere.
>> BTW, I find this line of questioning completely irrelevant for the  
>> position we are talking about which is strictly administrative. Aik- 
>> Siong Koh has been a mentor last year, involved in the entire  
>> process and short of actually running the process that is as much  
>> qualification as anyone can ask for.
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
>
>
>




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