Dear Squeakers,

welcome to the The WeeklySqueakSummary, an irregular traffic-dependent report on what's going on in the world of Squeak based on the WeeklySqueak blog.

Highlights of the past weeks:

Squeak board elections are due! [4]

Eliot Miranda and Vassili Bykov have left Cincom to work with Gilad Bracha at Cadence. The project they are working on seems to be very interesting - too bad they can't say much about it. Anyhow, they are using Smalltalk in development [1,10].

The complete text of an NSF grant given to Alan Kay's group at Viewpoints Research Institute is available [9]. It is a highly interesting read for everyone interested in anything ranging from GUI and application development to VM implementations. Also, Ian Piumarta's recent presentation on implementing object systems [12] - which work contributes to said grant - is worth a good long look.

The past weeks' news items:

[1] Taking the Beat of Cadence http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/taking-the-beat-of-cadence/

[2] Strongtalk Interview with David Griswold http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/strongtalk-interview-with-david...

[3] New Seaside Blog http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/new-seaside-blog/

[4] 2007 Squeak Board Elections announced http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/2007-squeak-board-elections-ann...

[5] Squeak Foundation Board meeting notes - November 2006 to January 2007 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/squeak-foundation-board-meeting...

[6] Recent VM Releases http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/recent-vm-releases/

[7] Recent Squeak packages releases http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/recent-squeak-packages-releases...

[8] Team reports for October - December 2006 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/team-reports-for-october-decemb...

[9] Getting the Message http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/getting-the-message/

[10] OO programmers fall into two categories: Smalltalkers and those who don't get it http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/oo-programmers-fall-into-two-ca...

[11] OLPC Under the Cover http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/olpc-under-the-cover/

[12] R U 'N Love w/Dynamic Languages? http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/r-u-n-love-wdynamic-languages/

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Happy squeaking,

Michael