Hi Martin,
Maybe my "CorridorGame" project could be of interest to you. It is a research/educational thing; I have build several versions over the last years, dealing with metapopulation dynamics in different spatial configurations (with and without nature corridors). Some documentation and a link to a basic one (as a Squeak project to be loaded in the browser plugin) is available at:
http://www.corridor.alterra.nl
I use Smalltalk for all my ecological modelling projects, both VisualWorks and Squeak. The first for the serious, calculation-intensive projects (like large-scale individual-based (= agent-based) population modelling, e.g. http://www.movement.alterra.nl), the second more for the fun, eductional projects, with a lot of "interactivity"
Success!
Hans Baveco
-----Original Message----- From: Martin McClure [mailto:martin@hand2mouse.com] Sent: dinsdag 14 maart 2006 23:56 To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Please recommend Squeak projects for presentation
Hi all,
I'm presenting a seminar in April * titled "Real-World Uses of Smalltalk, or What Do People Actually Do with Smalltalk?" * at the Smalltalk Solutions / LinuxWorld / NetworkWorld conference in Toronto. * My hope is to entice attendees that don't know Smalltalk to want to learn more about it. I'm hoping that you can recommend several projects that use Squeak for me to mention.
I need recommendations by this Friday, March 17, if at all possible. Please reply off-list.
To demonstrate that Smalltalk is used for all kinds of things, I want to include a very wide variety of Smalltalk uses -- large commercial Smalltalk applications, Smalltalk in research, Smalltalk in entertainment, Smalltalk with billions of persistent objects, Smalltalk in tiny embedded devices, and more.
Please recommend projects with these traits: * Currently active: The Smalltalk application should be actively used today, or be approaching deployment. I'll also consider applications that were designed for limited-time uses that were fairly recent. * Interesting or unusual: I'm sure I'll end up mentioning several large Smalltalk financial applications, but I also want to include some quirky little projects that aren't well known. * Readily-available information: If there is information about the project or company available on the web, that makes things easier for me, and I can include the URI in the seminar notes so attendees can find more depth on projects that interest them.
I'm looking for up to a dozen or so projects that use Squeak. I plan to spend an average of 30 seconds on each, and to cover a total of about 40 projects. With each project you recommend, please include as much of the following information as you have:
* The name of the project
* The company or organization doing the project
* A brief description (1-3 sentences) of what the project does
* What role Smalltalk plays in the project
* When the project started
* Current project status
* Any known URIs of web information about the project or company
In order to get project information compiled for the seminar handout, I need as many recommendations as possible to be in by this Friday, March 17.
More information about my seminar is at http://www.lwnwexpo.plumcom.ca/session_detail.cfm?id=241. Please feel free to email me with any other questions or comments.
Many thanks,
-Martin McClure
squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org