Squeakfoundation April 2002

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Re: [Squeakfoundation]So....
by goran.hultgren＠bluefish.se 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

cg(a)cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot) wrote: > ducasse <ducasse(a)iam.unibe.ch> said: > >I would really like to be in contact with some nordic people using > >Smalltalk. Have you any contact? Goran it would be nice to have a Swedish > >Smalltalk User Group. The main idea is to start small and have fun. I am here! :-) There aren't that many Squeakers from Sweden/Norway/Finland. (But we are at least 2 Squekers at Bluefish and 1 former Smalltalker) But a SSUG :-) might be nice - at least if there is no "paperwork" involved. Actually, Thierry Reignier (who lives in Sweden) is coming by here at our office later tonight for some Squeaking/PocketSmalltalking (he wrote the FAQ for pST). We can always talk about SSUG. So... what IS normally a "User Group"? Just a bunch of people that meets? If that is the case, I could fire up a Swedish Smalltalk User Group. I guess it would mainly involve a Swiki, perhaps a malinglist and make sure there is something happening regularly. (I have a bad habit of taking on assignments and then realizing I have no time, for example I really need to take some time to do some harvesting...) > Well, from your point-of-view the Netherlands is Nordic of course ;-), but no, > I don't count a lot of Normans and Vikings under my acquaintances, except of > course for the well-known people here on the list. You can always visit and get to know some more of us! :-) regards, Göran

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3.2.5 mac vm stability (vote please)
by John M McIntosh 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

Someone out there informed me that they've had some stability problems with the 3.2.5 mac VM on system 8.x. a) It's nice that they called. (feedback is always good). b) It's a surprise to me. So I need some feedback on 3.2.5 or 3.2.6 mac classic VM usage and if people are experiencing lockups or issues with loss of keyboard input after running squeak for some hours. Although the os-x version of the Squeak VM is quite different inside, the classic version of squeak if you are running OS 9.1 or lower shouldn't have changed much beyond the code reorganization and a wee bit of code cleanup (usually that type of work introduces issues of course). So if you'be been running a classic Mac VM and having issues, please let me know. -- -- =========================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci(a)smalltalkconsulting.com> 1-800-477-2659 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com ===========================================================================

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ESUG actions to promote Smalltalk
by ducasse 05 Apr '02

05 Apr '02

Hi all please distribute the following announce available at http://www.esug.org/ Program 1: Smalltalk in Academy ESUG would like to promote the use of Smalltalk in teaching and research institutions. Smalltalk is a pure object-oriented language that is mostly written in itself. It has good pedagogical properties. It is used at the *Open University* for teaching OO. For this purpose we propose two packages: Teacher Starter Package - a package containing a relevant selection of Smalltalk books at all levels of expertise + 30 CD's containing all the freely or non commercial Smalltalks (Squeak, VisualWorks, Gnu Smalltalk, Dolphin, Smalltalk/X, Smalltalk/MT) + plus all the freely available books + a ready-to-use lecture (400 slides + 100 pages of exercises) Teacher Immersion Package - we offer you to have the possibility to get an intensive lecture for any number of students over 3 or 4 days. The Teacher Immersion Package includes the Teacher Starter Package Admissibility conditions. There no limit of country location to obtain the packages. The only criteria will be your willingness to learn and/or teach Smalltalk. You should write to ESUG a small description (max a page) describing your situation (include any criteria you find relevant) and what your plans are to promote Smalltalk. The package will be given to the local library of the university of the person who contacted us, but with the legal obligation not to do any business such as reselling the books to other party. Please join the library address to your announcement. The chosen candidates will be listed on the ESUG site. Program 2: Cool Smalltalk Code Contest ESUG would like to offer Smalltalk books to students. We propose to any worldwide students to participate to the Cool Smalltalk Code Contest. The principle is the following: you send to the ESUG committee a small (the quantity is not an issue here) but cool piece of code showing some interesting aspects of Smalltalk or a small application, then your piece of code is put freely on the web and every two months we select the one we prefer. How will we proceed? At the end of every two months we will select 6 or 8 of the best submissions we got and send to their author a book amongst the books we have in stock. *Best Smalltalk Practices *Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications *Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia *Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand Smalltalk *Design Patterns Companion *Smalltalk with Style *On to Smalltalk *Art and Science of Smalltalk *Smalltalk, Object, and Design *Dolphin Smalltalk Companion *Smalltalk and Object Orientation: An Introduction by John Hunt *Squeak Xavier Briffault (French) The committee has the right to reject code that has been copied or too simple code. One person can only receive one book during the contest. When you participate think that there are people who do not have money to buy book nor have libraries. Program 3: Smalltalk in Business ESUG would like to sponsor presentations of Smalltalk inside companies. ESUG is willing to participate to expense for Smalltalk shows that a Smalltalk expert performs at a company's site. If your company is willing to sponsor ESUG for these specific actions, we can associate its name with such actions. If you are interested contact us esug-info(a)esug.org -- Stephane DUCASSE (ducasse(a)iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes

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