The Weekly Squeak

Randal L. Schwartz just announced that he will be giving a 3 hour tour of Seaside at OSCON 2008. We are very proud to have Randal on the Squeak Foundation Board. We are looking forward to more of his “Year of Smalltalk“.

[Edit: corrected spelling]

Hi all Squeakers!

Ok, the Squeak Foundation Board Election 2008 ended 19 minutes ago -
promptly at 18.00 UTC, 8 March.

For this year we had 437 authorized voters of which 178 voted, that is
slightly more than 40% voting - a bit disappointing IMHO since we had
157 voting of 347 last year which gives above 45%.
On the other hand 178 is more than 157, so we had more voters and thus a
growing community, which of course is the most important aspect!

And without further ado I bring you the board for the following year
starting from NOW. The order reflects the ranking from the election:

1. Dan Ingalls
2. Craig Latta
3. Bert Freudenberg
4. Yoshiki Ohshima
5. Tim Rowledge
6. Randal L. Schwartz
7. Igor Stasenko

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Just a quick reminder that you only have until 8th March to register your votes for the candidates for the Squeak Foundation Board 2008.

There are 12 candidates standing for the 7 places and Göran Krampe has posted information on the election process including statements by the candidates.

Voting is open to all Squeakers rated as Apprentice or higher on people.squeakfoundation.org. If you’re eligible to vote, you should have received an email at your registered address.

A history of Squeak that is still being written, the following is a Squeak Tale by Göran Krampe.

Let me tell you a story…

I was around… when King Dan ruled the Land of the Mice, his court the “SqC” was strong and the stream was flowing smoothly. It was a glorious and joyous time and I were there to see sir PWS, sir Comanche and princess Swiki being born as children of Socket. The wizard Morphic was still young and agile at that time…

Things were well, but not everyone were happy in the Land of the Mice - the population grew quickly and only the fortunate ones to enter the castle Image could have their fields fully prosper and not wither and die in the harsh outbacks of the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

In the past months, various Squeak Teams have sent their reports to the Squeak-dev mailing list.

News team: October 2006.
Webteam: October, November and December 2006.
Box-Admins team: October, November and December 2006.
SETools team: October, November and December 2006.
Documentation team: October, November, December 2006.

The News team also sent a report for January 2007.

In the past months, the Squeak Foundation board has met via IM every fortnight in order to discuss important issues involving the Foundation and involving Squeak development.
Craig Latta has been appointed to speack for the board, and has posted the notes of each meeting:

• November 1st, 2006
• November 15th, 2006
• December 6th, 2006
• December 20th, 2006
• January 3rd, 2007
• January 17th, 2007

The next board meeting will tale place on February 7th, 2007.

See Göran Krampe’s Gjallar demo at OOPSLA 2006, Tim’s pointer update, board information and a License update.

There has been an interesting debate about removing EToys from the main squeak image. The debate is around the fact that Squeakland appears to be a permanent fork and if the community wants to decouple Etoys from Morphic there may be more of an opportunity to improve Morphic. Not everyone agrees with this path and its implications read more here.

So what’s going on with Minnow WIKI? http://tinyurl.com/tbyz5

It’s moving? It’s changing? It’s staying the same? See if you can follow the tread.

The Squeak Foundation board has issued a call for volunteers to create a release team to guide the development of the next version of Squeak, following the guidelines set up during the last board meeting.

The board is
[...] looking for people who have available time, the diligence to complete a release, and a good degree of mutual trust with the community. If you’d like to volunteer, please do so here! If you have someone else in mind, please contact them privately and encourage them to volunteer.