Hi Patrick, hi Ron, hi all! :-)

I would like to continue serving on the Squeak Oversight Board in 2021!

Looking back on 2020, there were some noteworthy events where I was able to contribute a little something to Squeak's ecosystem and its community.

First, my role as a shepherd for inbox contributions got more serious and fun, nonetheless due to Christoph's (ct) numerous ideas:

http://forum.world.st/Please-try-out-Inspector-Refactoring-tp5114974.html [http://forum.world.st/Please-try-out-Inspector-Refactoring-tp5114974.html]


http://forum.world.st/Please-try-out-Fixes-for-debugger-invocation-during-code-simulation-tp5127684.html [http://forum.world.st/Please-try-out-Fixes-for-debugger-invocation-during-code-simulation-tp5127684.html]


In the beginning of 2020, I helped Hannes (hjh) getting the 5.3 release out into the wild:

http://forum.world.st/Brief-update-on-the-Squeak-5-3-release-schedule-td5112129.html [http://forum.world.st/Brief-update-on-the-Squeak-5-3-release-schedule-td5112129.html]


http://forum.world.st/ANN-Squeak-5-3-released-www-squeak-org-Trunk-open-again-tp5112795.html [http://forum.world.st/ANN-Squeak-5-3-released-www-squeak-org-Trunk-open-again-tp5112795.html]


There were a few events, where I thought that it would be nice to involve the Squeak community a little bit more:

http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Winter-Demos-2021-03-06-3-p-m-6-p-m-CET-virtual-tp5126913.html [http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Winter-Demos-2021-03-06-3-p-m-6-p-m-CET-virtual-tp5126913.html]


http://forum.world.st/CfP-Programming-Experience-Workshop-PX-21-tp5126609.html [http://forum.world.st/CfP-Programming-Experience-Workshop-PX-21-tp5126609.html]


A serious portion of my spring/summer time went into understanding and (hopefully) improving Squeak's FFI, keeping an eye on tool support. After the next iteration on FFI-Pools, I wrote my first bigger commentary on that spanning multiple class comments:

http://forum.world.st/FFI-FFI-Pools-mt-18-mcz-td5117607.html [http://forum.world.st/FFI-FFI-Pools-mt-18-mcz-td5117607.html]


In general, I am interested in restructuring and cleaning up the system to improve modularity and readability:

http://forum.world.st/Proposal-Geometry-Classes-tp5093998p5127584.html [http://forum.world.st/Proposal-Geometry-Classes-tp5093998p5127584.html]


http://forum.world.st/Proposal-Resetting-pragma-preferences-via-nil-or-reset-message-tp5123490.html [http://forum.world.st/Proposal-Resetting-pragma-preferences-via-nil-or-reset-message-tp5123490.html]


http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-Morphic-mt-1732-mcz-td5127408.html [http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-Morphic-mt-1732-mcz-td5127408.html]


Occasionally, crazy ideas and other projects pop up:

http://forum.world.st/Collections-Streams-About-enumerating-a-sequence-up-to-a-matching-query-td5127541.html [http://forum.world.st/Collections-Streams-About-enumerating-a-sequence-up-to-a-matching-query-td5127541.html]


http://forum.world.st/ANN-MessageSendRecorder-and-MethodWrappers-GitHub-tp5120077.html [http://forum.world.st/ANN-MessageSendRecorder-and-MethodWrappers-GitHub-tp5120077.html]


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Happy Squeaking everybody! :-)

Best,
Marcel
Am 04.04.2021 20:19:04 schrieb Craig Latta <craig at blackpagedigital.com>:

Hi all--

Please vote for me for the Squeak Oversight Board in 2021.

I've been organizing the board meetings for a few years now, and
I'm coordinating a 25th anniversary celebration for Squeak in September.
I'm also recording an anniversary podcast interview series; please let
me know if you'd like to be part of that.

I'm very excited about Squeak these days! I'm writing a webapp
with SqueakJS[1], Croquet[2], and Caffeine[3] at beatshifting.org,
enabling musicians to play together to a distributed beat. I'm also
using Squeak as the center of my music production studio, controlling
lots of sound, video, and MIDI gear. My experiments in virtual reality
continue as well, with mashups of Caffeine and A-Frame on the Oculus
Quest headset.

I'd like to continue scheming about the future of Squeak with the
board, and expanding our realtime community activity. In January, Dan
Ingalls, Vanessa Freudenberg and I started the California Smalltalkers
meetup group, with group video gatherings. It's been going very well,
and it has inspired me to use the video technology for Squeak gatherings
also. I'd like to have an online Squeakers conference in September, and
regular gatherings on second and fourth Wednesdays leading up to it.
Join us on squeak.slack.org to find out more.

Hm, this won't be the shortest candidacy message. :)


thanks!
Craig

[1] https://squeak.js.org
[2] https://croquet.io
[3] https://caffeine.js.org

--
Craig Latta :: research computer scientist
Black Page Digital :: Berkeley, California
663137D7940BF5C0AFC :: 1349FB2ADA32C4D5314CE



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