At Tue, 5 Jul 2011 17:13:25 -0700,
thej wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, it won't promote Squeak.

  Well, but it may contribute to the progress of computing in
education (if one doesn't subscribe to the Squeak-centric world view).

> I was at the ED-MEDIA conference in Lisbon last week and meet Karen Brennan who did a presentation about Scratch.
> I had a chance to talk to her afterword about Scratch 2.0. 
> It will be web only. No use of Squeak at all. 

  Yup.  That's been around.
 
> She estimated that I will take two years to release Scratch 2.0 and seeing that the job posting is still up... I believe her.
 
  Wow, it is a bit surprising that Karen said two years to release
Scratch 2.0.  I even saw a working prototype of the server a few
months ago...

-- Yoshiki