[squeak-dev] Re: Squeak Oversight Board 2015 Elections

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 20:10:42 UTC 2015


Bravo! Thanks for running Marcel. 

> On Feb 10, 2015, at 12:45 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi, everyone. :)
> 
> I'd like to run for the Squeak Oversight Board this time.
> 
> I have a strong interest in improving Squeak's user experience. This does
> not necessarily mean to introduce all the features known from mainstream
> programming environments such as Eclipse. In my PhD thesis, I am exploring
> the benefits of live programming systems. Some of those ideas could easily
> flow back from that research project [1] into Squeak. ;)
> 
> Recently, I joined Squeak's core development team and provided several fixes
> and features to the base system, Morphic, and its tools. I collaborated with
> Levente to provide an implementation of OrderedDictionary [2], with Elliot
> to provide support for long file paths to Windows-related parts of the CogVM
> [3], and with Bert to discuss several implementation details/issues in the
> base system.
> 
> I have been working with Squeak since 2007. Back then, we have created a
> small Sokoban clone [4]. Other (research) projects include an issue tracker
> with Seaside [5], source code annotation in Morphic [6], and a prototypical
> requirements planning tool [7]. Some current side-projects include an
> observer framework based on Qt's Signals [8], an animation framework [9],
> and a full replacement of Morphic's widgets [10] that makes use of signals.
> 
> I enjoy the Squeak community and its discussions on the mailing lists.
> 
> To give you an impression of how my current Squeak programming system looks
> like:
> 
> vivide-squeak.png <http://forum.world.st/file/n4804841/vivide-squeak.png>  
> 
> Best,
> Marcel
> 
> [1] https://github.com/hpi-swa/vivide
> [2] http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-Collections-mt-593-mcz-td4799750.html
> [3] http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/collaborators/
> [4] http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/olpc/index.html
> [5] https://vimeo.com/102603629
> [6]
> https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/trac/SqueakCommunityProjects/wiki/codetalk
> [7] https://vimeo.com/102603631
> [8] https://github.com/marceltaeumel/signals
> [9] https://github.com/marceltaeumel/animations
> [10] https://github.com/marceltaeumel/widgets
> 
> 
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