Squeak Oversight Board minutes – 5/01/12

Attending: Chris Muller, Colin Putney, Levente Uzonyi, Chris Cunnington, 
Bert Freudenberg, Craig Latta

- the SOB meeting time is being changed tentatively to 1st and 3rd 
Mondays noon in Los Angeles, so the next meeting is at May 7, 12pm L.A., 
Calif. time

- Colin is talking to Joyent [1] in Vancouver about hosting. They are a 
large supporter of node.js

- Colin is compiling Cog for Illumos (a branch of Solaris) [2]

- It was agreed that the a transition from our current server to a new 
server is required, as the current server hardware cannot run Cog (it's 
an old AMD Athlon without SSE2)

- We discussed Squeak’s market position. Ideas around it being a 
“flexible platform” and how it gives a user “complete control” were 
emphasized. Squeak has been the point of departure for many innovative 
projects: RoarVM, Scratch, Croquet, Pharo, Etoys

- Craig’s plans for Spoon in the coming year include porting the Naiad 
module system to Squeak and other Smalltalks; and, making example 
modules from existing Squeak code as a demonstration for other people to 
get started

- The SOB is exploring the idea of having a Squeak event in North 
American sometime in its tenure this year.

- There are plans to contact the SqueakFest [3] organizers to include a 
track of programming for other kinds of Squeak projects than the educational

[1] http://www.joyent.com
[2] http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home
[3] http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/about/