The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeak accepted into Google Summer of Code 08

    Giovanni Corriga has announced that Squeak is one of the 175 Free and Open Source projects accepted as mentoring organisations for this year’s Google Summer of Code. Students interested in joining the programme will receive a stipend of $4,500 and can find out more at the Squeak summary page, and list of proposed projects. You’re…

  • Squeak VM now in Debian distro

    José L. Redrejo Rodríguez has announced that the Squeak VM is now officially included in the Debian distribution. This reflects the acceptance of the Debian administrators of the completion of the migration of the VM code from the old Apple licence to the MIT licence, (meaning that this page now needs updating). The package should…

  • Dan Ingalls demos Lively at Google

    Dan Ingalls gave an interesting Tech Talk on the Lively kernel (best viewed in Safari 3 apparently) at Google a few weeks ago – what better way to (re)introduce our new board member?

  • Squeak by Example, 2.0!

    Stéphane Ducasse has just announced that the second edition of Squeak By Example has just been published. It is available for download from the Squeak By Example website, or if you prefer paper to phosphors, you can order a hard copy from print-on-demand publishers lulu.com for only €16.18/$20.10/£11.07. Licensed under the creative commons by-sa licence,…

  • Talk on “Newspeak” today

    Jens Lincke informed the mailing list that the Software Architecture Group at the University of Potsdam are hosting a talk today (11th March) by Gilad Bracha on Newspeak, described as a new dynamic language, descended from Smalltalk and Self. From Jens’ note: Newspeak is a new dynamic language, descended from Smalltalk and Self. Like Self,…

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