The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Help improving the Smalltalk experience on the OLPC machine

    As you may now, the XO laptops produced by the One Laptop Per Child project include a Squeak/Etoys image in the base software. The OLPC developers decided to hide the Smalltalk development enviroment and highlight the Etoys subsystem, since that’s the part that matters in a kids machine such as the XO. But the power…

  • Thot talks about Squeak, Etoys and V-Toys

    Thot, a French-Canadian magazine on distance learning, has published a small article on Squeak and the Etoys, including the EToys-derivate V-Toys. The article, written in French, may be found here. Thot also provides a machine-translated English version of it, that may be found here.

  • From the Press Room: Squeak At 2007 Smalltalk Solutions Conference

    The Squeak environment and Squeak products will be demonstrated at the Smalltalk Solutions Conference: a part of the 2007 IT360 Technology Conference and Trade Show in Toronto, Canada. Toronto, Canada – 2 April, 2007. Continuing the tradition started in Karlsruhe, the Squeak community (www.Squeak.org) will host another trade show booth at the Smalltalk Solutions Conference…

  • From the Press Room: Squeak Badge Fund Raiser Campaign

    Squeak community to raise money with Silver and Gold Squeak Pledge Badges Bern, Switzerland – 2 April, 2007. Bryce Kampjes is the first official recipient of the new Gold-level Squeak supporter badge. As part of the Squeak Foundation’s new badge fund raiser, Mr. Kampjes stepped forward to support the growth of the Squeak community (www.Squeak.org)…

  • OLPC for ME?

    Don’t say you didn’t see this coming. The question now: Is there a world wide market for OLPC? Quanta announced plans to market the OLPC computer worldwide for $200. It doesn’t take long to realize that the argument for less is more has legs. I found myself nodding in agreement listening to Nicholas Negroponte talk…

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