Webteam February 2007

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Re: Upload for ftp.squeak.org
by Ken Causey 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

The Web Team is in charge of the FTP site with the exception of any subsections assigned to other teams or people. This message is Cc'ed to them. Ken On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:40 -0700, Matthew Fulmer wrote: > I converted > ftp://ftp.squeak.org/docs/Self-4.0-UI-Framework.ps.Z > to a pdf: > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/uploads/2139/self-4.0-ui-framework.pdf > I think it should be made availible in the same place as the > original, but the ftp site is read only, and for good reason. > Could you upload this document as > ftp://ftp.squeak.org/docs/Self-4.0-UI-Framework.pdf > > Thanks. >

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Re: [Webteam] Trouble at Squeak Website
by Asselin Raymond 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

>Jim Lyons skrev: >> The installation instructions are (appear) missing on >> >> http://www.squeak.org/Documentation/Installation >> >> (Using Mac OS 10.3.9, Safari) >Yes, you are right. Do anyone have a write up on installing Squeak on >MacOSX ? > >Karl If I understand a write up is a short peace of text so, here it is: - First you have to download the mac release which is a zip folder. IF you have set Safari appropriately this folder will unzip automatically after the download, else just unzip it by double cliking on it (on OSX). - The folder contents all the files you need. You can put the folder somewhere on your hard disk and drag the .image file on the .app file and thats’it. - Alternatively you can pick the .app file (this is the Squeak Virtual Machine for the Mac, including lots of pluggins) and put it in the Application folder so that when you’ll double clik an .image file Squeak will start automagically. Note: to see the pluggins select the .app file pressing ctrl key and select in the context menu ‘Afficher le contenu du paquet’ (sorry I don’t have en english version of OSX at hand). Open the ‘contents’ folder, the pluggins are in the resources folder.

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Trouble at Squeak Website
by Jim Lyons 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

The installation instructions are (appear) missing on http://www.squeak.org/Documentation/Installation (Using Mac OS 10.3.9, Safari) - Jim Lyons

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Need comments/approval for About page
by Larry Trutter 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

The Squeak license sections has been removed. Please check out the test site About page: http://wwwtest.squeak.org/About/ Any more suggestions? Is it ready to go "live" yet? -Larry Trutter _________________________________________________________________ Dont miss your chance to WIN 10 hours of private jet travel from Microsoft® Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0540002499mrt/direct/01/

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Re: [Webteam] 2nd Draft of About section
by Larry Trutter 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

>From: karl <karl.ramberg(a)comhem.se> >To: Larry Trutter <stargazerzero(a)hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: [Webteam] 2nd Draft of About section >Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:35:34 +0100 > >Larry Trutter skrev: >>>From: Brad Fuller <brad(a)bradfuller.com> >>>To: Larry Trutter <stargazerzero(a)hotmail.com> >>>CC: webteam(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org >>>Subject: Re: [Webteam] 2nd Draft of About section >>>Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:38:56 -0800 >>> >>>Looks good. A few comments: >>> >>>The only problem with this is that "image" has not been defined yet. >>> >>>"Squeak runs bit-identical images across it" >> >>I linked the word "images" to a definition of image in the Squeak swiki: >>http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2213 >> >>> >>>Change: >>>Smalltalk is invented to >>>to >>>Smalltalk was invented to implement the Dynabook >>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook> and was conceived >>> >>>However, I don't think this is necessarily true. I realize Alan had >>>dynabook in mind, but I don't know if Smalltalk was invented for the >>>dynabook. >> >>It was an unsuccessful attempt to transition to the Dynabook paragraph. So >>I got rid of "Smalltalk was.." part of the sentence. >> >>>Should we add licensing info here? I'm wondering if we should leave it >>>out. It is changing and if people need to read the license, they can do >>>so by taking the link on the left side of the site. That way we don't >>>have to update the license info in several places. >>> >>>What do others think? >> >>I agree that it should be taken out. Do others agree? >I think we should mention something somewhere about the work to change the >license. But I'm not sure about where. >karl Yes. Maybe on the license page? My impression is that VPRI is taking the lead on this and Squeak Foundation is helping to contact contributors for license change. I don't know much beyond that. -Larry Trutter _________________________________________________________________ Laugh, share and connect with Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://im…

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Re: Box-Admins Team Report for January, 2006
by Brad Fuller 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Ken Causey wrote: > > http://wiki.squeak.org/ > i was wondering why http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak is not: http://wiki.squeak.org/ That seems more appropriate. For the other two links there: Croquet has their own wiki. The Swiki link seems to be for commanche, and it seems up to date. Is it? If is indeed up to date, maybe we should give it a proper place to link into and the right name so we can promote its use and people will use the link.

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2nd Draft of About section
by Larry Trutter 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I will be putting the draft with links into the test site in a couple of days. Jason was able to give me access and I was able to login. Thanks, Jason! Right now, the draft is in plain text format without links. Some contents of sections were rewritten or moved. So I took a chance in redoing a couple of sections so either it might be the right direction or I probably went too far and should have left some sections alone. I tried to stay close to the vision provided by Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls (ie. The Future of Squeak). Any constructive feedback, good or bad, is welcome. Only the follow sections are not changed: Squeak is free with a liberal license Squeak Support What it is not 2nd Draft: About Squeak is highly portable open-source Smalltalk with powerful multimedia facilities. Squeak is the vehicle of a wide range of projects, ranging from educational platforms to commercial web application development. Other noteworthy aspects of Squeak include: · real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk · extensions of BitBlt to handle color of any depth and anti-aliased image rotation and scaling · network access support that allows simple construction of servers and other useful facilities · bit-identical execution on many platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix, and others) · a compact object format that typically requires only a single word of overhead per object · a simple yet efficient incremental garbage collector for 32-bit direct pointers with efficient bulk-mutation of objects Each release includes platform-independent support for color, sound, and network access, with complete source code. Originally developed on the Macintosh, members of its user community have since ported it to numerous other platforms including Windows NT, XP Windows CE (it runs on the Cassiopeia and the HP320LX), all common flavors of UNIX, Acorn RiscOS, and a bare chip (the Mitsubishi M32R/D). What is Squeak? Squeak is based on Smalltalk which was created more than 35 years ago. Smalltalk defined the term object orientation and is the first language in which everything is built from objects. Smalltalk is deeply inspired by ideas from Simula, Sketchpad and Lisp. Even today, Smalltalk sets the bar for object oriented dynamically strongly typed interactive languages and environments. Unlike the standard static, file-based approach of other languages such as Ruby or Python, Squeak offers a true uniform fully reflective environment - real live objects. In this environment, when anyone can make a change to an object, its behavior changes immediately without having to restart the system. You can even modify or create objects while the application is running. Squeak includes class libraries and virtual machine plugins for very advanced multimedia including anti-aliased 2D and accelerated 3D graphics, real-time sound and music synthesis, MPEG2 video and much more. In addition, Squeak has one of the most advanced fully reflective development environments ever created with over 600 addon packages available for single click download and installation. Squeak runs bit-identical images across its entire portability base, greatly facilitating collaboration in diverse environments. Any image file will run on any interpreter even if it was saved on completely different hardware, with a completely different OS (or no OS at all!). What is Cool about Squeak "The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan Kay Squeak stands alone as a practical computing environment in which a developer, researcher, professor, or motivated student can examine source code for every part of the system, including graphics primitives and the virtual machine itself. One can make changes immediately and without needing to see or deal with any language other than Smalltalk. Our diverse and very active community includes teachers, students, business application developers, researchers, music performers, interactive media artists, web developers and many others. Those individuals use Squeak for a wide variety of computing tasks, ranging from child education to innovative research in computer science, or creation of advanced dynamic web sites using the highly acclaimed continuation based Seaside framework. A Brief History of Squeak Squeak began, very simply, with the needs of a research group at Apple. The goal was to build a system using a language as expressive and immediate as Smalltalk to pursue various application goals such as prototypical educational software, user interface experiments and another run at the Dynabook concept. The core team behind Squeak includes Dan Ingalls, Alan Kay, Ted Kaehler, and Scott Wallace. All of this has attracted many of the best and most experienced Smalltalk programmers and implementers in the world. Philosophy The fundamental philosophy of Squeak is to write everything in Smalltalk. All of the source code in Squeak, including the virtual machine interpreter, is available to see, understand, modify, and extend for whatever purpose. It is a genuine, complete, compact, efficient and robust Smalltalk environment. Squeaks virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks. Squeak is used as a computing tool for research on how computers can be used to enhance and amplify learning. Specifically, work in using computers to find new ways to reach children with powerful ideas of math and science. Squeak provides a computer environment, such as Etoys, that help people learn ideas by building and playing around with them. Many meaningful and motivating projects helps them develop as logical thinkers, and understand how some technologies, that they encounter in their everyday lives, work. The Etoys tutorial illustrates an example of a learning environment where students increase their knowledge and wisdom by experimentation and experience rather than by the traditional, passive reception of lectures and limited feedback loops. -Larry Trutter _________________________________________________________________ Invite your Hotmail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://sp…

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WebTeam report January 2007
by Karl 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Lot's of stuff happended this month. Most notably Brad Fullers rewrite of www.squeak.org front page, making the news feed box and various fixes to the css. Thanks, Brad :-) Larry Trutter has been working on the 'About' page and I think it's nearing completion. Raymond Asselin has helped out building MacOS X 3.9 packages with the latest VM. I have copied the latest Unix/Linux VMs from squeakvm.org the 3.9 Unix directory on the ftp. I have read through the web site and noticed we could rewrite a lot of the info there. Also the screenshots could be updated. So if you have a urge to make some screenshots or write, join us at the webteam list: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/webteam Again, thanks for all the great work guys. Karl

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PR Team Request
by Chris Cunnington 04 Feb '07

04 Feb '07

Hi Web Team, I'm with the PR Team, and I'd like to make a request for an addition to the squeak.org website. I request the Web Team to create a web page for and called either Press Releases or Media. If you want an example of what I mean look at any large corporation, and that's what I request exactly. When 3.10 is launched I'm going to post this information to Slashdot.org. I will need a page to link my reference to. Also, for anybody from a newspaper or magazine or Ars Technica or whomever, they will need to read the press release of what has just been announced. The content and form of the press release, I will not enter into at the moment other than to say I will petition Ralph Johnson for a quote about the value of the Squeak vm, and what is new in this iteration of the vm. I am told that his name value is very high on account of his co-writing "Design Patterns", which is exactly what we want. Please consider this request, Chris Cunnington PR Team Tsar

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Thank You
by Chris Cunnington 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hi Webteam, Thank you for accepting the PR Team proposal for the creation of a new page on Squeak.org. The next step of the PR Team is to determine an ETA for 3.10, and to ask Professor Johnson about a quote for a press release. When I have more concrete details about the creation of a press release, I will relay them to the Webteam. Cheers, Chris Cunnington PR Team Tsar

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