The Weekly Squeak

Tony Garnock-Jones: It’s a package for Squeak Smalltalk. It can load and cache static, prerendered map tiles from a variety of sources including OpenStreetMaps, Bing Maps, and so on. It includes a geocoder query service which maps free-text queries to regions of the planet’s surface. The service can be backed by the Nominatim service (associated…

Hi Folks, Satellogic was featured today at Nature News! I helped design and build the hyperspectral cameras in our satellites Fresco and Batata. And I wrote the geometric and spectral processing software for that image. This is not completely off topic, though: The geometric software (image rectification and correction), the most complex part of the…

25rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions          Maribor, Slovenia              from 4-8 September 2017              http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2017/  This call includes:          Developer Forum          Smalltalk Technology Award          International Workshop  http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2017/International-Workshop-IWST_17…

======================================================================== **Call for Papers** 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2017) 23-24 October 2017, Vancouver, Canada (Co-located with SPLASH 2017) General chair:    Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France Program co-chairs:    Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia    Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Artifact evaluation chairs    Tanja…

Eliot gave a terrific presentation about the current state of the community and what we might do to improve it. Evelyn (Lin) Ostrom 1933-2012 Eight principles for managing a commons Clearly defined boundaries Proportional equivalence between benefits and costs Collective choice arrangements Monitoring Graduated sanctions Fast and fair conflict resolutions Local autonomy Polycentric governance http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/commons-strategies…