Pretty cool stuff!!
Category: Publicity
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Don’t Miss Cincom’s Seaside Podcasts Next Week
From Michael Lucas-Smith:
Hi Everyone,
Just a heads up that Industry Misinterpretations, our Smalltalk podcast, has three podcasts specifically about Seaside coming out over the next week.
Podcast #1: Myself, James Robertson, Tamara Kogan, Martin Kobetic, Arden Thomas
Podcast #2: Myself, James Robertson, Michel Bany, Alan Knight, Arden Thomas
Podcast #3: Myself, James Robertson, The entire Gemstone GLASS team
The podcasts will be appearing here:
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=podcasts
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (just search for smalltalk) or with: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/blog_podcast.xml
They’ll also be announced on James’s blog:
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogViewCheers,
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Qwaq, Intel Collaborate on Enhanced Virtual Workspace Product
For those of you who want to see Croquet in action, check out the keynote by Justin Rattner from Intel’s developer forum in San Francisco this morning:
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2007/webcasts.htm
The topic is “The rise of the 3D Internet” and Croquet is featured both in the talk in general (as an example of P2P collaboration environment) and live via a Qwaq Forums demonstration (about 15mins into the talk).
Also, a link to the press release of the Qwaq/Intel collaboration:
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070920corp_a.htm
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New Seaside Paper
See IEEE Software
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New Squeak UI Enhancements Released
Gary Chambers released new UI Enhancements for Squeak. You can now access these changes from the Squeak Source Repository or through Package Universes. You can read more by following the following threads here and here. Also check out the new UI team. Our thanks to Gary and the UI Team!!
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OLPC on TV
From: Michael Haupt,
The German/Swiss/Austrian TV station 3sat has a weekly 30-minute show called “neues” (roughly translated “new things”) which deals with IT-related information. Yesterday’s show was focusing on bringing IT to isolated regions and emerging nations as well as developing countries. The show featured an article on mesh networks in Ecuador and the Linux4Africa project.
Linux4Africa is a German project collecting old but functional hardware. The components are cleaned, repaired (if necessary), bestowed with an Edubuntu Linux installation, and sent to Tanzania and Moçambique.
12 of the show’s 30 minutes were dedicated to an extensive coverage of the OLPC project. Etoys and Squeak were mentioned several times during the feature. The project itself was introduced, and Bert Freudenberg was interviewed about the technical features of the XO laptop, which was presented in detail.
There were also two interviews in the studio. Two members of GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit; German Society for Technical Cooperation) responsible for XO distribution in Ethiopia talked about the project in general and about the impressive progress children made when working with the XO.
The other interview – which filled the first slot in the OLPC coverage – featured two students from Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, who have developed strategic and skill-improving games for the XO in the Software Architecture Group‘s course on software architectures.
All in all, the editorial staff at 3sat did a tremendous job in preparing this show. To the writer’s knowledge, this was the first time the OLPC project was presented at such a level of detail in German television. Germany being a country where the the project has no actual lobby, it is important to have such media coverage – it would be nice to see much, much more of it.
The entire show can be watched online (in German).
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Dynamic Language Symposium
Call For Papers!
Are you ready to OOPSLA!!
The Dynamic Language Symposium is looking for participants.
D L S 2 0 0 7
Dynamic Languages Symposium
October 22, 2007
Palais des congres de Montreal
Montreal, Canadaco-located with OOPSLA 2007
sponsored by ACM SIGPLANhttp://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/
The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation and application. While mature dynamic languages including Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Self, and Prolog continue to grow and inspire new converts, a new generation of dynamic scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript are successful in a wide range of applications. DLS provides a place for researchers and practitioners to come together and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development.
This year 30 papers were submitted to the Dynamic Languages Symposium of which 9 papers were accepted. The program committee reviewed each paper and met electronically to select papers for the final program.
We are pleased host invited talks by Mark Miller and Jim Hugunin.
The program of the Dynamic Languages Symposium is available from http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/
Please note that participation in DLS requires registration with OOPSLA at http://www.regmaster.com/conf/oopsla2007.html or http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/
Contact:
Pascal Costanza (pascal.costanza @ vub.ac.be)Robert Hirschfeld (hirschfeld @ hpi.uni-potsdam.de)
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OLPC – The $100 Laptop – Goes into Production
Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Check out the BBC Article.
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SqueakFest ’07 – Register Now!
From Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute:
Greetings —
Online registration is now available for SqueakFest ’07!
http://imamp.colum.edu/eceim/squeakfest07/index.phpWe’re putting together a great three day program including hands-on workshops, panels, presentations, casual sharing time and fun social events.
Alan Kay will give a talk about the One Laptop Per Child Initiative, the “xo” machine and Squeak Etoys on this platform.
Registration for the entire program is $125.00. Please register
early as this will be helpful for our planning. We also encourage
you to BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM(s) EARLY! Chicago will host numerous summer events and hotels are already near capacity for August 1-3.Some suggested accomodations appear on the SqueakFest website:
http://imamp.colum.edu/eceim/squeakfest07/accommodations.phpPlease forward this email to anyone you know that may be interested in attending.
Come join us in Chicago! We look forward to seeing you there.
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If you can’t take the HEAT!
You know what they say, “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the laptop for the worlds children business!” Pictured above is the OLPC computer running day and night (look closely and notice the Squeak E-Toys running) at scorching temperatures 52C (125F) during the day time and 22C (72F) at night. Just image running your computer laptop in an oven all day!
The Weekly Squeak 