Dear Squeakers,

welcome to the The Weekly Squeak Summary, a weekly report on what's going on in the world of Squeak based on the Weekly Squeak blog.

This issue is assembled by a not-yet jetlagged Michael who is looking forward to meeting some Smalltalkers at OOPSLA in Portland, Oregon.

Highlights of the week:

Ian Piumarta's Pepsi [1] is an exciting environment for implementing statically-compiled dynamic languages, possibly the foundation for a future implementation of Squeak...?

The process for working on the planned release of the 3.10 image is being actively discussed [2]. The discussion started out with Göran Krampe's suggestion to make the development process more community-oriented. Entailing the discussion, the Squeak Foundation Board have decided to establish a release team [4], for which volunteers are sought [5]!

Last week's news items:

[1] Dynamic messages: a tour of Pepsi http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/dynamic-messages-a-tour-of-peps...

[2] Process Woes http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/process-woes/

[3] Squeak: toy or instrument? http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/squeak-toy-or-instrument/

[4] Squeak Foundation Board meeting notes - October 18th, 2006 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/squeak-foundation-board-meeting...

[5] Call for release team volunteers http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/call-for-release-team-volunteer...

[6] Recent package releases and announcements http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/recent-package-releases-and-ann...

[7] An optimization example http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/an-optimization-example/

[8] self vs. super http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/self-vs-super/

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Greetings from Portland,

Michael