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

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sat Jan 26 23:58:11 UTC 2013


Cool!  That's great Darius, thanks.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:47 PM, 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
>
>
>


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