I hope that this is not an inappropriate request to place on this 
list -- if it is, please flame me privately ;-)

I'm a professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute, and my interest in 
Squeak has been growing steadily as I do more and more with it.  But 
there is no Squeak "community" here at OGI. I have a sabbatical 
coming up next academic year (October 2001 onwards), and I would like 
to spend some part of it doing something that deepens my knowledge of 
Squeak, and hopefully contributes to the Squeak environment.  Oh--and 
is fun!

Most likely, this would be some not-for-profit activity, perhaps one 
that draws on my interests in distributed systems, and contributes to 
the Squeak source pool; for this I would expect to get at least 
partial salary support from my University.   But I would also be 
interested in doing some commercial O-O development in Squeak, 
particularly as part of an XP team.

See my web page at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black for more information about me.
If you might be interested in talking further about my participation 
on your project, please contact me (off the list) 
mailto:black at cse.ogi.edu

Although October seems like a long way off, I do need to make plans 
fairly quickly with the University.  At this point I'm looking for 
expressions of interest rather than a firm commitment.

	Andrew