On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Juan Vuletich wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> These are the notes for the last Board Meeting, posted at the Squeak Board 
> blog at 
> http://squeakboard.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/meeting-report-for-8182010/ .
>
> Almost full house today. Only Chris was missing because he is on vacation. We 
> had a good meeting and discussed many issues.
>
> Money transfers to SFC. Andreas has been extremely busy at work, but will be 
> able to pick it up again now.
>
> Squeak 4.2 release: Date and Scope. Setting up the infrastructure for 
> Community Supported Packages and start picking them. We currently don?t have 
> an active Release Team. If somebody steps up to work on this, we can start

Release Team? Like what 3.11, 3.10, 3.9, etc had?

> planning. Please volunteer!
>
> Documentation. The community has previously shown interest in having a 
> Documentation Team, so Jecel will post to squeak-dev to check up on the 
> current volunteers and seek out new ones.
>
> Randal suggested doing a wide survey on usage of Squeak and Squeak 
> derivatives to help in planning and decision making. This would include 
> Pharo, Etoys, Cobalt, Scratch, Cuis and others. We?d need input from groups 
> and organizations that are not members of the squeak-dev list. Therefore we 
> need to approach members of those groups and organizations for coordination. 
> We?ll also need cooperation from everybody to get all users of Squeak and 
> derivatives to be aware of this effort, and to consider answering the survey. 
> Randal will start contacting some of these groups for coordinating.
>
> Bert will attend to Esug 2010 partly on behalf of the Squeak Board as a 
> Squeak PR activity. We decided to financially support his trip.
>
> Andreas and Juan would like to find a way to leverage the work done to reduce 
> Cuis for Squeak. Ideally, Squeak would become a smaller kernel, about the 
> size of Cuis, and everything else would be in optional packages that would be 
> unloadable. Comments, suggestions, volunteers, are all welcome!

Sounds good. I think we could start with finding package dependencies 
(AFAIK we know the dependencies at the class level, but not at method 
level) and splitting the Tests package.


Levente

> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich (for the SOB)
>
>