On 5/2/12, Chris Cunnington <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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


"making example modules from existing Squeak code"
_excellent news_

--Hannes

> - 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/
>
>