squeakland January 2018

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Possible Bug?
by Jeremy Landry 03 Feb '18

03 Feb '18

I haven't investigated it into the Etoys source, but I found this bizarre bug, likely appearing due to a number being turned into an integer when it's odd, but I cannot figure out why it would be called at all... Included is a project that demonstrates this bug. I looked at the individual pieces and they aren't 'personally' responsible, but when working as a unit, they then exhibit the bug. custom window demos.013.pr <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nefep7r-gSbJ5xyLGKbWUU54ozFlzNid/view?usp=…> Basically what seems to cause it is resizing nested playfields via script. Resizing with morphic handles works fine, but when sending an Etoys 'LENGTH' change, somewhere along the line, things go wrong. Again, my guess is that some number is getting changed into an integer from a floating point, and thus getting rounded up, which would shift it up when it's not a floating point number any longer. However, this doesn't explain why it doesn't have the same symptom when changing WIDTH. Thanks for any insight into dealing with this. I'm not exactly sure where to begin looking within the Etoys Source to make things work as expected since there's likely 30 reasons (read: random object methods) why this might occur and only for vertical change/LENGTH change.

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Re: [squeakland] [Newbies] One more week to VOTE!
by Ron Teitelbaum 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

You are very welcome! Thanks for voting! Ron On Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 6:22 AM stephan <stephan(a)stack.nl> wrote: > On 29-01-18 22:21, Ron Teitelbaum wrote: > > HI All, > > > > The Squeak Oversight Board election is on. For more information about > > the election see http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6590. > > > > You should have received a ballot if you are on our voters' list. If > > you have not voted, please take the time to find your ballot and vote. > > Done. > > Thanks Ron for organizing and the candidates for offering their time and > effort. > > Stephan > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners >

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One more week to VOTE!
by Ron Teitelbaum 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

HI All, The Squeak Oversight Board election is on. For more information about the election see http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6590. You should have received a ballot if you are on our voters' list. If you have not voted, please take the time to find your ballot and vote. Please go to your email client and look for an email: Poll: The Squeak Oversight Board 2018 from: Ron Teitelbaum (CIVS poll supervisor) <civs(a)cs.cornell.edu> Also, you may need to check your SPAM or JUNK folder! Let me know if you can't find your ballot and I'll resend it to you! All the best, Ron Teitelbaum

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Did you VOTE?
by Ron Teitelbaum 26 Jan '18

26 Jan '18

Hi all, I know it seems like there is a lot of time left to vote but it goes fast and it becomes harder and harder to find your ballot if you wait much longer! Please take the time to find your ballot and vote for the Squeak Oversight Board 2018. Please let me know if you can't find your ballot. I am happy to resend it to you! For everyone that has voted so far THANK YOU! It's a great way to show your support for the board! All the best, Ron Teitelbaum

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Project Announcement: EmoSTEP
by Jeremy Landry 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Currently, there's a resurgence of appreciation for the aesthetic of old computer hardware. The popularity of such 'fantasy consoles' like Pico8, TIC 80 and Pixel Vision 8 are following the long-lasting wave of retro-computing which has only gained momentum since the introduction of the first popular 'retro emulator', NESticle in 1995, an emulator that mimicked Nintendo's original flagship games console from 1984. I don't foresee this aesthetic going away any time soon and it is quite inviting for kids and adults who want to try their hand at making something on the computer but don't want to be bogged down with the current generation's level of complexity. Even the basic low-resolution graphics inherent to these old systems invite the most novice of artists because there's no expectation that anything will look 'polished' in the way that modern 3D games and applications look. By their very nature is a concrete limit as well as a 'challenge' to make just a few pixels resemble an idea. Combine this with these graphics and sounds requiring imagination to be 'complete' by anyone else who looks at it, it becomes quite an interesting medium to explore even for people who've gone through thousands of hours of graphics and audio instruction and training; the possibility of someone without this experience producing something that stands up to the work of a professional is much higher than in high-resolution, high-definition settings. My project involves a complete makeover of Etoys so that it retains functionality of Etoys/Smalltalk at it's core, a system that is itself already inviting, with the inviting nature of low-definition visuals and audio. Using the already-made classes such as OLPCVirtualDisplay and FMSound, the idea is to follow the concept of projects like Pico8 as a 'fantasy console' and make a 'fantasy computer' running a 'fantasy OS', which at this point is dubbed EmoSTEP. It also is highly dependent on having some good demonstrations how to think about this version of Etoys and minor additions/changes to some of the tools so that everything marries together in a cohesive feel. I myself am not a programmer by trade, I'm actually in the middle of a career change from electronics technician/grunt to graphic design (I am in my last year of school), so a lot of the things I've been doing programatically have been very slow as I'm learning how to implement these ideas as I go. And you know what that means: The purpose of this project is not to supplant or replace Etoys at all or even be considered part of the 'main Etoys goals', but to provide an alternative entrypoint for those interested who cannot see beyond the initial look of Etoys what it's capable of. In fact, one of the main goals I have is to keep projects made in this hack completely Etoys compatible so that a project made in EmoStep loads like any other Etoys project into the official Etoys release (and of course, later, Squeak). Aspects/applets that are intended to be included are as follows: Low Color Depth (I need to hack the 8bit palette maker to not simply produce 248 shades of gray and 7 'regular colors' but be a true approximation of a full 16bit/32bit depth color range but executed with fewer colors to select from...) Pixel-Art Oriented PaintBox (currently, the GSoC Paintbox edit and built in Paintbox are only capable of really bad high res/low color art work. What is needed are special brushes for 'lighten/darken', pattern/stipple brushes etc. See GRAFX2 application for an idea of tools that need to be implemented) FM Sound Composer (restructuring the old Squeak code that allows editing and creating of FM instruments/sounds and musical compositions and accessing the creations via Etoys viewer flaps) Demosdemosdemosdemos (lots of cool little 'applet' projects that demonstrate commonly sought-after effects and basic game-engine operations) Faux "This Is An Emulated Machine" Aesthetic (rather than making it seem as if it's just a programming language, take the approach interface-wise that mimics *some* aspects of 90's computers, such as startup/shutdown screens, reconfiguring windows themes with a theme editor, icon makers, etc.) I hope other people are interested in this project. I feel that much of Smalltalk/Etoys lack of traction in these days where terms like 'retro' and 'livecoding' are all the rage fall directly on aesthetic and approach to the system and that's really what, ultimately, is the aim of the project; introduce more people to the world and especially the history of smalltalk. The name EmoSTEP itself is a bit of satire on the negative effects of Steve Jobs short sightedness to sellsellsell has obscure the real purpose of the work he and his team cannibalized for the Lisa, Macintosh and NextStep computer lines. Namely, it made it easier for 'scribes' to pump out one-size-fits-all style programs which mostly don't fit anyone rather than the real goal of the Smalltalk team which was to make it so that people could build their own software when they need/want it by borrowing from the works of such scribes without restrictions. EmoSTEP is short for "Etoys Morphic OS SmallTalk Experimental Programming" or something of that nature. I came close to just calling it AmigoSTEP, but truth be told, the name isn't solid just yet, so if anything, maybe someone's got some clever puns to throw out at me. Anyway, here's a pile of screenshots for some work towards this project, both in Etoys and the edited image with the low-fi graphics already operational at a pixel-density level (the color depth issue noted above is still on the to-do list). I'd love comments, critiques, insights, flames, etc. and welcome any assistance and guidance from people that understand the underlying smalltalk much better than I. I kind of regard it as a minor miracle I've been able to do as much as I have thus far, a true testament to the language and it's immediacy of the environment, something I hope to turn up to 11 with this project. Thanks for reading this long message! various random images from work on this project in no particular order of importance--> https://imgur.com/a/0PT4B

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Squeak Oversight Board 2018 - Time to vote!!
by Ron Teitelbaum 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Hi all, It is time to vote. Please go to your email client and look for an email: Poll: The Squeak Oversight Board 2018 from: Ron Teitelbaum (CIVS poll supervisor) <civs(a)cs.cornell.edu> The VOTER EMAIL could be in your SPAM or JUNK folder please look there! Take the time now to go find your ballot and vote! Description of poll: It's that time again. Time to VOTE for the Squeak Oversight Board. Please take the time to vote!!! The 7 highest ranked odd number of candidates from the list will comprise the Squeak Oversight Board starting from the end of the voting period until the next Board is elected. Remember that your vote is considered as a ranking of all candidates. Voting for "None of the Below" allows you to vote for the people you want most without having to vote for candidates that you do not prefer. Candidates that get fewer votes than "None of the Below" ARE NOT elected to the board. In the case that "None of the Below" is chosen above the 7 candidates needed, the board will have fewer than 7 members for the year. If you don't have a preference between two candidates rank the users with the same rank. Ranking "None of the Below" above other members indicates your desire to vote against the remaining candidates. Select a lower rank than "None of the Below" too! vote against them. Please contact voters(a)squeak.org if you have any questions or for more information. Your question and answer will be posted to squeak-dev. For more information and details, see the official 2018 elections page at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6590 There are some great candidates. Please VOTE!! All the best, Ron Teitelbaum

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Squeak Oversight Board Election 2018
by Ron Teitelbaum 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Hi All, It's that time again. Time to raise your voices and elect your leaders! Can you believe it's been a year already? It's a time for you to stand up, help your community and volunteer to serve! Squeak wants you! Every year we elect the SOB (Squeak Oversight Board) consisting of seven members from our community. The current board members are: 1. Bert Freudenberg 2. Tim Rowledge 3. Craig Latta 4. David T. Lewis 5. Nicolas Cellier 6. Marcel Taeumel 7. Jecel Assumpcao Jr For more info on the board please see: https://squeakboard.wordpress.com/our-mission/ Everything about the election, including schedule and more, can be tracked here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6590 Now until Monday 22nd of January 3PM (20.00 UTC): Nominations of SOB members and campaigning! Candidates should nominate themselves and start their campaign on the squeak-dev mailing list. Or if you nominate someone else, make sure that person really wants to run. :) I will not put anyone on the candidate list until that person makes it known on squeak-dev that he/she intends to run. During this period, the candidates should ideally present themselves on squeak-dev, unless they have already done so, and the community can ask questions. I encourage you to reach out to potential candidates, people that are active in the community and represent your views, and ask them to run. Some people will not run without encouragement. Also, I know that some people wait to the last minute to run for the board to see if others will run but please consider getting this year off to a faster start and just jump right in! Schedule: Now until Monday 22nd of January 3PM (20.00 UTC): Nominations of SOB members and campaigning! Monday 22nd of January 2018 3PM (20.00 UTC): Candidate list is finalized. Monday 22nd of January 2018 4PM (21.00 UTC): Online election starts. Tuesday 6th of February 2018 6PM (23.00 UTC): Online election ends. Results will be announced immediately when the election ends.The voting period is one week long and ballots are sent out via email. And how do you end up on the voter list? See below. :) IMPORTANT: New voters will NOT be added once the election is started. You MUST try to get on the voter list before the 22nd of January 2018 or you will NOT be able to vote. If your Email has changed please make sure it is changed on the list of voters before the election starts. -------------------------- If you were invited to vote last year you are already on the voter list, no worries! If you are a new Squeaker and wish to vote you should do ONE of the following: * Get a "known" Squeaker to vouch for you. If a known Squeaker sends an email to voters (at) squeak.org giving me a name and email for you, then I will add you. * Send an email to voters at squeak.org yourself (and CC to squeak-dev if you like) with information/arguments showing me that you are indeed serious about voting and that you are indeed a Squeaker. When the voting period starts all voters will receive an email with instructions and a link to the voting website. If there are any further questions, just reply *in this thread* and I will closely track it - or send email to voters (at) squeak.org which points to me. ...so let's get on with it! All the best, Ron Teitelbaum

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Fwd: Squeak Oversight Board Election 2018
by Ron Teitelbaum 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hi All, Thank you to everyone that has served on the Squeak Oversight Board in the past and for all of you that are running to serve this year. We currently have 7 candidates for 7 seats. Marcel Taeumel Bert Freudenberg Tim Rowledge Eliot Miranda Jecel Assumpcao Jr. David T. Lewis Craig Latta Please don't let this keep you from entering the race. Consider running yourself or I would encourage you to continue to find others and encourage them to run for the board! We love having more than 7 candidates! Now a little about voting. If you are not on the voter list now is the time to get on it. If you are part of this community, even if you just read the list and use Squeak, you too can vote. Send me a letter telling me why you want to vote, or get a Squeaker to contact me and I'll add you. Also if your email has changed or if you didn't get a ballot last year please let me know. You can reach me at voters(a)squeak.org or send me a direct email. All the best, Ron Teitelbaum On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Craig Latta <craig(a)blackpagedigital.com> wrote: > > Hi all-- > > I'd like to serve on the Squeak Oversight Board again this year. > > I'm encouraged by livecoding experiments I've done combining Bert's > SqueakJS with several web frameworks (see thiscontext.com), and would > like to push that further with other interested folks. I think such > efforts are useful for navigating and crossing into the development > worlds around us, discovering new application areas for us. I'm also > excited by the 2018 interests of the other candidates, and would love to > join them. > > > thanks, > Craig > > > >

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