On the matter of Amelang and Nile/Gezira, you all might find this long
running Github issue -- with recent comments by Amelang himself -- of
interest:
https://github.com/damelang/nile/issues/3

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 3:47 PM Ken G. Brown via Squeak-dev <
squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:

> A little detective work showed I could still subscribe to the Fonc list at
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/fonclist, giving access to what
> archives there are.
>
> Last email I show from
> http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org, is
> 2017.07.31
>
> Ken G. Brown
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2020, at 12:35, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 2020-02-23, at 11:21 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
>
> Dan Amelang's Gezira is much more interesting.
>
>
> Yup. We (as in 'the board' in this case) tried contacting him some time
> ago to ask about any progress, plans etc. My email archive suggests that
> was around sept '17 and nothing came of it that I can discover.
>
> The very last thing I can find is
> "
>
> A discussion on the open source nature of the Nile/Gezira/Frank on
> tinlizzie.org started today on
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/fonclist
>
> Specifically, I asked Yoshiki:
>
> The Squeak board asked me to ask Alan Kay, Yoshiiki Oshima and other VPRI
> reseachers if this code is published as open source. When we have
> reconstructed the ‘final’ version of Frank and all its projects we would
> like to ask permission to republish it in a running state.
>
>
>
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/private/fonclist/2017-November/000048.html
>
> "
> ... from Nov 2017.
>
> I have no access to that mailing list archive unfortunately. Does anyone
> out there? Did it explain anything we would care about?
>
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Strange OpCodes: RLB: Ruin Logic Board
>
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>
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>

-- 
Eric
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