<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'>What motivates me to learn vm-dev (besides the fact that it is interesting) is the desire to bring Squeak to a state where it will be embraced by the Linux crowd.<br><br>Some of the projects I have in mind are:<br><br>1. Squeak as X server/client...where launching StartX on linux invokes squeak and the window manager is squeak.<br>2. In addition to Morphic, I would like to port Chrome (as a plugin, I guess--I don't know enough) so that Seaside could be a desktop. <br> I would love to see a desktop with "renderFooOn: aSeasideWorld<br>3. In the same idea as 2, use OpenGL<br>4. I have a broken project of HLA up on SqueakSource (?) that I would like to finish. <br>5. Emacs interface to the Squeak dev tools (heresy, I know).<br><br><br>I do not think that I have the coding chops to do the above yet. that is why I am working on the port of the StackInterpreter to naitve 64 and then 64x64 followed by Cog to native 64.<br>I figure at that point I will be fluent enough to attempt the above.<br><br><div id="1"><br>cordially,<br><br><br>tty.<br><br><br><br>---- On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:13:58 -0800 <b>Frank Shearar<frank.shearar@gmail.com></b> wrote ---- <br></div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px">So. Some kind people (GSoC) are willing to throw money at us if only <br>we have something for people to do. <br> <br>We really, really ought to propose projects. We did nothing last year, <br>and so got nothing. <br> <br>For starters, there's work to be done in finishing porting Cog to ARM. <br>What else might we usefully propose? <br> <br>For instance, I'd like to see a project bringing Reactive Extensions <br>[1] to Squeak. Or a Cap'n Proto [2] implementation, whether through <br>FFI or native. Or maybe there's useful work to be done in the UI <br>department. <br> <br>Suggestions, folks! <br> <br>frank <br> <br>[1] <a href="https://rx.codeplex.com/" target="_blank">https://rx.codeplex.com/</a> <br>[2] <a href="http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/" target="_blank">http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/</a> <br> <br></blockquote><br></div></body></html>