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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This is not quite the same thread so I thought I’d
start a new one.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Squeak is alive and well and in better shape then even I
could have imagined. Yes it looks forking disorganized but it is in no way
foundering. I see tremendous progress with Igor and Eliot working on the VM. I
see fantastic progress with Andreas, Brad, Josh, Howard, Greg, and David at
Qwaq on Croquet, plus Julian et al. with Cobalt. There is fantastic work going
on with Philippe, Lukas, and Avi with <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seaside</st1:place></st1:City>
and I’m very happy to see Stef and Marcus working hard on Pharo. I’m
really looking forward to seeing what Craig can do, and I hear Bert is moving
to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:City>
to work with Alan and Yoshiki! And Alan and Ian are reinventing computing. Gilad
and Vassili are using squeak to develop newspeak.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If that is not progress I don’t know what is. The
only things missing in my opinion are Tim (vacation is over time to come back!),
I want to see more success with Sophie, Plopp and Scratch and the licensing
issue is hard but I see hard work going into it which is great.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>What is needed to move forward? I’ve given this some
thought and I’ve come to the conclusion that Andreas and Avi were right.
We need to play well with others. We need to be able to integrate Apache,
OpenSSL, Ruby, PHP and Python. The solutions to today’s problems are not
only solved with Squeak. I think we need to learn to live with this distributed
development and learn to play well with each other. Once we learn the lessons
of integrating our own code we can apply those lessons to integrating with others.
In that line I think the work with Installer, MC2, Delta Streams, SqueakMap,
and Spoon are all on the right track. Something will eventually tie us and other
platforms too back together.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It may be a strange time but it is a great time for Squeak!
I would think that Randal called it correctly this was the year of Squeak and
it has been a terrific success. We should all be proud, not of one fork but of
all of them. We are still one community and we are a strong one thanks to the
terrific efforts of Ken, G</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ö</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ran, Edgar, Keith, and
Mathew. Plus there is great work being done by everyone I didn’t
mention!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ok I have to get back to work now.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ron Teitelbaum<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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