[Challenge]

tblanchard at mac.com tblanchard at mac.com
Thu Jun 12 04:45:29 UTC 2003


Hmmm.  With a name like silicon chalk, I expected to see something more 
like this:

http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/videos/sketching.mpeg

which would be a very cool  thing to have in squeak indeed.
(warning - the download is long but quite cool).

On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 01:12  PM, Ivan Tomek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just seen a demo of Silicon Chalk (see
> http://www.siliconchalk.com/index.htm). It's a lecture (voice, any
> application, etc.) recording, 
> question-and-answer/polling/note-taking/etc.
> supporting tool that, to me, is the first educational application that 
> has a
> chance of growing and becoming useful.
>
> Its main limitations are that it
>
> - is restricted to Windows
> - is not open source, making it, in my opinion, impossible to keep up 
> with
> possible extensions, customizations, etc.
> - is written in C++
>
> It seems to me that this is a perfect application area for those who 
> might
> want to try to apply Squeak's features and create a 'killer 
> application'
> proving its worth. I do not volunteer to implement it :( but there may 
> be
> some volunteers or students waiting for challenging projects or theses 
> that
> might make it really desirable for people to learn, use, and advance 
> Squeak.
>
> Ivan
>



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