Hi Aik-Siong,

I am the founder of the Hawthorne Center for Innovation in the Southern 
California area. I also applied for GSoC 2009. The Center has a whole 
"wish-list" of Squeak-based projects we would have liked to have gotten 
funded. I would be interested in connecting up for next year's program.

I found Squeak on the web in the fall of 2005 while searching through wiki 
frameworks for the 20 years of history I had harvested and wanted to get 
onto the web. While surfing I ran into Swiki and from there I soon ran into 
the then newly-published book by Stephane Ducasse, Squeak: Learn Programming 
with Robots. I was so excited! - I had started the Center to work with 
homeschooled kids in my area and had wanted to develop a robotics program 
that didn't involve the expense of buying Mindstorms or Logo.

When I got the book, being a non-geek, I could barely understand what was 
being discussed, but there were pictures and I could at least figure out 
that I was finally in the right ballpark! I handed the book over to my 
Principal Research Scientist-in-Residence, Ben Cooper, who also got excited; 
we got hold of every piece of literature on Smalltalk that we could. After 6 
months of intensive study, Ben started to head a weekly workshop here at the 
Center for kids on Squeak.

Now, 3 + years later, the Center has morphed into a small research institute 
helping to support the work of a group of internationally-placed Squeakers 
and Ben has started a collaborative arrangement with a student form the 
University of Missouri-Rolla to create lessons for introducing Squeak to 
kids form 8 to 80 which will provide the experience of "painlessly" learning 
of the principles of computer science while having fun with graphics.

At present, I don't have much on my website; in a couple of days, I will 
have the alpha version of the first lesson up at www.hawcenter.org. I will 
also put up the "wish list " that I would have posted for GSoC 2009. I will 
include more about on-going Squeak-projects being worked on through the 
Center including the data structure Ben is writing for my history wiki (as 
yet unnamed).

Looking forward to any relationship,

Donna Schrokosch

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From: "askoh" <askoh at askoh.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] GSOC 2009 not accepted


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> Thanks Bert. Great idea.
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> As Bert suggested, nothing prevents us from joining other groups that do
> work that interests us. It might even be good to expose others to Squeak
> when we join them.
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> Any one knows of other groups that can use Squeak mentors and students?
>
> All the best,
> Aik-Siong Koh
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