2010/3/20 Jean Marshall and Andy Berry <andy at tof.co.uk>:
> Hi!
>
> Well done everybody!
>
> Here's something I wrote on why I like Smalltalk:
>
> http://www.tof.co.uk/stories/page14.html
>
> Hope you all continuing having fun Smalltalking! ;-)
>
> Andy

Well put. Open, Based on simple rules, Fun, ...
But Smalltalk is more than that ;)

Nicolas

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mariano Martinez Peck
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> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:01 PM
> Subject: [Esug-list] Re: ESUG selected as GSoC 2010 mentoring
> organization!!!!
> Hi Smalltalkers!
>
> Maybe you are not aware of what our selection to this year GSoC really means
> for the Smalltalk community. And I wasn't aware completely until few hours.
> Just to give you an example, even such big organizations like Ruby or PHP
> where not selected. From this viewpoint  you can see what we have achieved.
>
> Some people said and still says that Smalltalk is old and that it is dead.
> Ok, we have been selected by the major Informatics and Software company all
> over the world.
>
> The point is that ESUG and the Smalltalk community was selected because of
> the seriousness mixed with passion of all the application, project and
> ideas. We have an incredible high quality list of ideas and mentors.
>
> We have a unique opportunity to show the rest of the world why we love
> Smalltalk, why it is much better than other alternatives, etc. So, we invite
> all of you to make this happens.
>
> Thanks to everybody for all the congratulations and nice words!!!
>
> Your GSoC admins
>
> esug.gsoc.adm2010 at gmail.com
>
> http://gsoc2010.esug.org
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck
> <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We are incredibly proud to announce that ESUG was selected for the GSoC
>> 2010. We have a long list of wonderful projects, mentors and a cool website.
>>
>> We want to thank you to all the people who help us publishing project
>> ideas, giving feedback on the submit text or the English, etc.
>>
>> For the moment, we don't know the slots (amount of projects) that we will
>> receive.
>>
>> Don't worry. We will contact you again very soon to let you know the
>> following steps.
>>
>> Now, prepare yourself. We have to show the rest of the world why we love
>> Smalltalk so much :)
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> The very happy GSoC admin team
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