Great initiative Martin, and I wish you all the best luck with your
endeavor. As you know, people on this list are very helpful and I am sure
that they will support you. I am only a 'lurker' here, being a VisualWorks
person.
 
Ivan
 
 

Ivan Tomek 
Jodrey School of Computer Science 
Acadia University 
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada 

-----Original Message-----
From: Martín Altobello [mailto:martin_altobello at yahoo.com.ar]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:19 PM
To: Lista Squeak
Subject: About SqueakRos News


Greetings and Salutations,
 
I am writing you from Rosario city, Argentina (you may have heard of us in
CNN - yes, the country that had 5 presidents in 15 days). As cracy as it may
sound, "we" - a group of professors and graduate students from - so far -
two different Universities have gotten together to create a research
initiative. 
 
And thus, since last week, SqueakRos is born: A Smalltalk/Squeak research
initiative, made of people who have the Object Oriented Paradigm in the
heart. 
 
We may not have the best hardware, we maybe "international parias" (have you
tried buying a book in amazon.com when your currency is at a 2 to 1 ratio to
the US dollar? - and all your money is trapped inside the banks), but we
have good intentions and the desire of betterment.
 
Though because of the current situation of our country we are having some
difficulties in getting official support from our Faculties - the
Universidad Abierta InterAmericana,  Facultad de Tecnología Informática, and
the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, sede Regional Rosario - we hope that
for the next year (and more!) we will be researching Squeak and its basts
posibilities, aiming to developt an easy to use and at hand spanish
documentation. 
 
As time goes on, we aspire to get inside Squeak and maybe even contribute in
some way to its international comunity - whithin our own humble
posibilities. 
 
On a personal note, I'd like to thank you all for making Squeak "free for
everybody to use". Education is the best social "equalizer", and in times
like this, in our country, education is all we have left. And the dream that
one day our effords will lead to a better dignifying life. I believe Squeak
is a great tool for archieving that. 
 
In previous ocassions I've written to this list with "personal questions".
In the future I may be adressing you as a member of SqueakRos, with the
group's questions and news. 
 
I do know you all are very busy people so I'll be finishing up. 
 
Once again, I thank you and wish you to keep on with your good work. 
 
Martín Altobello
SqueakRos initiative
 
 
 

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