[squeak-dev] Darius Clarke is running for the 2013 board

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Sat Jan 26 11:03:20 UTC 2013


There is the Pharo 2.0 image which is the developer image and a
smaller one called 'Pharo Kernel'.

https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/Pharo-Kernel-2.0/

Both have various builds with various packages.

--Hannes



On 1/26/13, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> On 26.01.2013, at 04:47, Darius Clarke <socinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've developed applications in Squeak in various forms professionally
>> (including Croquet & Cobalt) and now I would like to give back to the
>> community, helping where I can. I use Squeak (and eToys) for educational
>> purposes and create some learning tools with it.
>>
>> Like most of the community I'm persuaded by the programming and UI ideals
>> which Squeak embodies (and hinted at ideals and opportunities).
>>
>> Curiously, each direction taken by the developers along Squeak's
>> development path seem to coincide with how I would envision Squeak should
>> progress. So, I would encourage Squeak's community to continue on it's
>> current trajectory: making it more modular in packages, better developer
>> tools, and a little more consistency in programming paradigms as needed.
>>
>> Coming from an educational perspective, I do bring with me some
>> preferences (secondary to the above) for Squeak's progress such as:
>> 	• Prepackaged distributions for rapid adoption for common use cases
>> (since our systems should serve us and not us serve them)
>> 	• Rapid discover of modules or components for a purpose. (Dividing a
>> monolith into modules is only half the battle. We must be able to discover
>> and assemble the disparate parts extremely rapidly into our solutions to
>> be ideal for the intended purpose or task to accomplish.)
>> 	• Continue supporting student constructionist education, with a gradual
>> self revealing of Squeak's computational power to the student as the
>> student masters each skill (as a fertile platform for supporting eToys and
>> beyond eToys)
>> 	• Continuing its support for the modern web communication infrastructure.
>> The web has become the UI of the people (not by choice, design, or
>> superiority) but has, in effect, unified the public of many nations (E
>> pluribus unum) with the power provided by computational tools. I believe
>> doing so will help expose Squeak's capabilities to more developers who can
>> use it. Computational thinking has grown beyond one person to one machine
>> to one software platform.
>> My best wishes for all the candidates and for a prosperous new year to the
>> Squeak and Smalltalk community. Thank you for all your work up to now and
>> into the future.
>>
>> - Darius Clarke
>
> Great!
>
> - Bert -
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