Am 25.02.2024 01:40:05 schrieb Vanessa Freudenberg <vanessa@codefrau.net>:
Hi everyone,
I'll run for the Board this year. I've been in the community since 1997 and had been serving on the board from 2006 to 2022. I didn't run for the last two years for personal reasons. I'm in a better place now.
Lately I've been mostly focusing on my virtual machines – SqueakJS and Smalltalk78. I feel a little bit like a scientist in Jurassic Park, reviving some lost creatures – albeit with less dramatic consequences. It definitely is fun and rewarding.
One thing I revived last year was the 2004 version of Croquet (https://github.com/codefrau/jasmine), mainly by adding an FFI and writing an OpenGL emulation. The rendering now works well enough to enjoy playing with it. I also wrote a whole TCP/IP stack, but the multiuser isn't quite working yet.
The other fun project I got working again this year is impara's Plopp 3D painting tool for kids, which won the ESUG Tech Award in 2006 (be aware there's a lot of cheerful sound – you may want to turn down your volume, or at least brace yourself):Similar to Croquet, this uses the Croquet renderer and Tweak UI. Unlike Croquet, it's not open-source, the image is locked down. It's a lot of fun to play with though.
Besides my rather solitary coding adventures, I'd like to get a bit more involved in the community again. Thank you to the folks who encouraged me to run.
Please vote for me 💜
Vanessa