[squeak-dev] Another Nomination for the Squeak Foundation

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Thu Feb 21 17:37:36 UTC 2008


That's really wonderful news and many thanks to Dan deciding to come 
back into more active role in Squeak community. Community really needs 
angels like Dan!

Janko

Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I would like to nominate another person for the Squeak Foundation Board.
> This person is a founding member of our community and the principal
> architect of five generations of Smalltalk environments.  He is the inventor
> of BitBlt as well as the designer of the first byte-coded VM in 1976.  He
> also worked with John Maloney to create Morphic.  We are very fortunate to
> have been able to encourage him to run for the board.
> 
> It is with great pleasure that I nominate Dan Ingalls for the Squeak
> Foundation Board.
> 
> Dan is and has always been an active member of our community.  You can see
> him jumping in on conversations, posting about his work and contributing to
> this community.  Dan is currently working at Sun building a Squeak-Like
> Morphic implementation that runs on a VM but that uses only JavaScript on
> the client browser.  This is very exciting and a Lively Kernel for future
> development.
> 
> Dan is also aware of the challenges facing our community in terms of
> organization, licensing and development direction.  He is willing to help us
> as much as he can because as he says, "I feel a strong commitment to
> Squeak".
> 
> Please welcome Dan Ingalls to the Squeak Foundation 2008 Election.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ron Teitelbaum
> Squeak Community Member
> 
> 
> 

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Janko Mivšek
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Smalltalk Web Application Server
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