The meeting has just ended after two hours and a half. Thanks again,
Tim, for organizing this! We had six particpants.

I created this sort of agenda:
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we need Squeak Graphics to be:

1) pretty
2) fast
3) everywhere
4) easy
5) compatible
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The focus of the Board meetings so far has been on the first 3 items.

Item 1 was what started all this. Tim needs better quality graphics for
his virtual dials. Moving from bitmap graphics to vectors with some nice
rendering scheme like Juan's Morphic 3 would help. The VPRI people
produced Nile/Gezira which could adopt the Morphic 3 rendering
algorithm. Craig has been doing interesting stuff with SqueakJS
including WebGL.

To make it fast we need to make use of GPUs and multiple cores. Juan has
been using OpenCL in his own work and Dan wants to have a version of
Nile use SPIR-V (essentially a binary version of OpenCL). Unfortunately
some platforms we are interested in don't have OpenCL nor even the
desktop version of OpenGL. The most common denominator is OpenGL ES 2.0
from 2007.

Lawson showed two Youtube videos he made in 2012 combining OpenGL and
Morphic.

Merik mentioned the KWorld and KScript work from VPRI that goes with
Nile. Tweak was also discussed. This time we didn't go into what is
being done in Pharo except for a brief mention of the Sparta / Moz2D
work.

All of the old OpenGL stuff in Squeak used the original fixed pipeline
model but OpenGL ES 2 is incompatible with that is uses shaders for
everything. A simple interface to that has the problem of shaders being
black boxes in the form of Squeak strings that get passed to the drivers
without allowing any kind of debugging. One solution would be to have an
OpenGL ES implementation in Squeak which could be used both for
debugging applications and to enhance the Cog simulator so not only
could it deal with x86 processors (via Bochs) but also with GPUs.

Obviously quite a bit more was discussed (some of it off topic) but I am
trying to keep this short. I plan to create a "map" showing MVC, Self
Morphic, Squeak Morphic and so on as software stacks in the style of OSI
network models. Tihs should help with further discussions.

See you next time!
-- Jecel