Thanks Stef!

Anyone else? I realize most of the candidates don't have a webpage with all this prepared beforehand... but short statement of your intentions would still be useful.

Daniel

stéphane ducasse wrote:

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Dear SqF board candidates.

While we know all of you to some extent (some more than others), we dont know you as elected representatives. If you can write a few words about what goals the board should accomplish, and how you're going to help those happen, it would be helpful for at least this Squeaker in his difficult decisions ahead...

Daniel Vainsencher

Sure! This is the right moment to ask!

Here is what I would like to see done: (I took basically what we wrote on the squeakfoundation web site long time ago).

• create an independent legal entity to which companies and

individuals can donate resources and be assured that those resources will be used for the public benefit; this entity should be the representative of the community for legal actions (such as the crypto package registration or participation to Google Summer of code actions).

• provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from

legal suits directed at the Foundation's projects;

• protect the 'Squeak' brand, as applied to its software products,

from being abused by other organizations;

• enable the communication between all the projects related to Squeak

such as tweak, croquet, etoy, smallland...; (this is why I'm ***really*** happy to get yo and bert as candidates because they represent a bit tweak, croquet and squeakland) I'm really pleased to see the smallland anf squeakland fixes retrofitted in 3.9

• support the promotion of Squeak media (video, books, presentations); (I would really like to see how we can help the book of diego

translated in english or french but I do not read spanish)

• support educators, developers, teachers to achieve their dream

around Squeak.

• make squeak really sexy and fun for educators, developers...

These were the simple goals we set up with marcus when we started

• having a better web site (done)
• having a way to promote some changes (for example using a bounty

mechanism)

• supporting the fixes harvesting and enhancements
• supporting people to write books, CD/DVD, tutorials
• supporting people making presentations of Squeak
• supporting the development of architectural tools that all the

community will benefit from (enhancing Monticello, Squeaksource for now)

Once we will have done that. We will be done :)

Stef

That's true, we have statements from you, Noury, Tim, Peter, Stef, Cees.

So AFAICT, we're missing Ken, Marcus, Bert and Yoshiki.

Any of you guys care to give a platform? putting them on discussed link might be a good idea.

Daniel

Craig Latta wrote:

Hi Daniel--

There are a few candidate statements at what seems to be the 

nominal place for them for this election[1].

thanks,

-C

[1] http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/53.html

soon I hope we will get the same screens as the one in minority report :) Thanks for the links.

On 21 févr. 06, at 08:26, Tansel Ersavas wrote:

For those who may be interested

This is an interesting multi-touch capable screen demo. Great for gestures, etc. Also would be interesting to see how such an idea could be utilized in Croquet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs

Another cool thing that could be utilized as Croquet input is the SpacePad. There are a few other things in the market but this seems to be a reasonable system for experimentation. I am currently assisting a project where motion capture is a big part so have been looking into many mo-cap systems. Most of them are prohibitively expensive. This is not a mo-cap system but can be used as a VR input system.

http://www.ascension-tech.com/products/spacepad.php Also an interesting group of 3D dwellers are growing in a virtual environment called second life. I am sure Croquet guys are aware but just in case anyone is missing it is an environment worth checking out.

http://www.secondlife.com

Tansel

Blake wrote on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:30:34 -0800

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:28:44 -0800, stéphane ducasse ducasse@iam.unibe.ch wrote:

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soon I hope we will get the same screens as the one in minority report :)

No way.

All that overacting?

I'd throw out my shoulder moving those screens around.

Actually, you might find the quick, small gestures to be more of a problem. We could replace those with voice input and have something nobody had ever thought of before!

http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/papers/1980/bolt_SIGGRAPH80_put-that-the re.pdf http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/sig_videos.html

-- Jecel P.S.: it is still Alan Kay's job to point out that everything was already done in the 1960s. I will limit myself to the late 1970s at the earliest until he retires ;-)

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:26:22 +1100, Tansel Ersavas tansel@squeakonline.com wrote:

Also an interesting group of 3D dwellers are growing in a virtual environment called second life. I am sure Croquet guys are aware but just in case anyone is missing it is an environment worth checking out.

I've been playing in SL for almost a year now, and its a fascinating place. I build and sell flying vehicles in there, which involves a lot of scripting.

One of the technologies they are planning to transition to is using Mono as the next VM for the scripting engine. Interesting, Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET universal VM, which will allow people in SL to eventually script in whatever language they are comfortable with, including Smalltalk...

If anyone from here does manage to make it into SL, look me up -- my user name in there is Jon Marlin.

Later, Jon -------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Hylands Jon@huv.com http://www.huv.com/jon

Project: Micro Seeker (Micro Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) http://www.huv.com

On 21.02.2006, at 09:50, stéphane ducasse wrote:

I think that what I said counts also for marcus since we wrote the page together. But he can add a note.

Yes, indeed the list is quite complete... what I would likee to stress again (you mentioned it already): Coordination and communication.

I would like to see the projects / people that use Squeak to work together, share their accomplishments and have fun building a great system...

My personal view of Squeak is that it should be "the System to build the next System with". I don't know what that system of the future will look like, but I am sure we can move one step towards this system by making Squeak simpler to understand, easier to modify and extend... better meta-models, more late binding, better infrastructure, better tools, a cleaner code base, modularity, evolvability....

Ah, and in the subject there was the word platform: I would like Squeak to be a platform, a basis for many very different projects.

Marcus