Dear Squeakers,

happy new year, and 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:

The one topic that has gotten most coverage on the Weekly Squeak blog recently has been the OLPC initiative. The enormous response to the G1G1 (give one, get one) programme [1] has shown that great interest in the little green boxes is prevalent also in non-target countries of the initiative [5,8]. Intel is no longer a member of the consortium [11], and one may wonder whether the "competitive products" will stand the comparison... [12]

Lively is a very interesting JavaScript-based development environment running in your browser (if you use a very recent Firefox or Safari build, that is). It looks somewhat familiar to Squeak users. Dan Ingalls has given a presentation at Stanford [13].

FInally, there's a nice collection of images showing Smalltalk running on an Alto [9], taken in 1979, when Smalltalk was still very very young. (But hey! It's a GUI! In 1979!)

The past weeks' news items:

[1] Give One. Get One. NOW!! http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/13/give-one-get-one-now/

[2] Problems with the Weekly Squeak RSS feeds http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/13/problems-with-the-weekly-squeak-rss-feeds/

[3] Interview with Avi Bryant on FLOSS Weekly http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/23/interview-with-avi-bryant-on-floss-weekly/

[4] Qwaq Secures $7 Million in Funding From Alloy Ventures and Storm Ventures http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/28/qwaq-secures-7-million-in-funding-from-all...

[5] Demand OLPC http://news.squeak.org/2007/12/05/demand-olpc/

[6] Virtual Education a Reality for Aaron E. Walsh http://news.squeak.org/2007/12/10/virtual-education-a-reality-for-aaron-e-wa...

[7] The First Smalltalk Conference In Argentina http://news.squeak.org/2007/12/18/the-first-smalltalk-conference-in-argentin...

[8] Here it is. OLPC!! http://news.squeak.org/2007/12/22/here-it-is-olpc/

[9] Old Smalltalk Pics From PARC http://news.squeak.org/2007/12/29/old-smalltalk-pics-from-parc-place/

[10] Immersive Education the focus of 2008 Boston Summit (January 12-13 at Boston College) http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/03/immersive-education-the-focus-of-2008-bost...

[11] Intel Resigns From Board Of One Laptop Per Child http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/04/intel-resigns-from-board-of-one-laptop-per...

[12] Tunnel Vision? OLPC http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/05/tunnel-vision-olpc/

[13] Lively Kernel, a Self Supporting System on a Web Page http://news.squeak.org/2008/01/12/lively-kernel-a-self-supporting-system-on-...

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Happy squeaking,

Michael