On Aug 3, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Rita Freudenberg wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> the schedule for Squeakfest USA is now online! Have a look at it here:
>
> http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/schedule/
>
> Registration is still open here:
>
> http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/register/
>
> Rita Freudenberg
> rita at squeakland.org


For squeak-dev readers who may not have been enticed to follow the  
urls Rita provides above, and who perhaps are not much focused on  
education or etoys, it bears mentioning that:

-- Among the attendees at Squeakfest USA next week will be Andreas  
Raab and Eliot Miranda.

-- Eliot is presenting a session entitled "Making Squeak Etoys Faster."

-- Alan Kay is giving the keynote.

-- Yoshiki, Ted, Takashi, Ian, and Kim of course will be there.

-- The Squeak Etoys community needs serious volunteer effort from  
experienced Smalltalk programmers in order to evolve and explain and  
enrich the system.  Quite possibly, the community needs *you*.

-- It's hard to imagine what other Smalltalk programming effort could  
have such far-reaching impact.  Thanks to the presence of Etoys on the  
olpc, the number of computers in the world which have Squeak installed  
on them is now huge.  So people who contribute software effort to the  
evolving Squeak Etoys image will be touching the lives of millions of  
children and other worthy users over the next couple of years.

-- (And for those who don't know:  Squeak Etoys is a full-scale 3.8- 
based Squeak image, not a stripped-down or dumbed-down system.  With a  
few changes of Preferences it will be seen to be a familiar,  
undiluted, license-clean, Squeak 3.8, with the addition of several  
years of mostly olpc-oriented development.)


So if you're in the area and if you think you might be interested in  
contributing to a Squeak system already found on nearly a million  
computers worldwide, please join us at Squeakfest -- next week Monday  
through Wednesday, on the UCLA campus.

  -- Scott