Hi all! On 03/22/2011 11:20 AM, Niall Ross wrote:
Dear Goran et al., I agree with Julian's points and yours.
Göran Krampe wrote:
IMHO a more exciting discussion can start if someone says "I want to do X" and then see what people think of it and if they want to join in and so on.
So let's return the thread to the three proposals actually made so far IIRC.
The first two are complementary - we could do both:
1) GSoC Smalltalk project in the area of CMS: needs Pier-capable mentor(s).
But now you are writing "we"... is the above something *you* want to do? And besides it is not happening for this year, ESUG did not get GSoC approved this year. Personally I am in agreement with those that have a hard time seeing the real benefits of a "yet another" CMS project.
2) ESUG workshop/tutorial in Edinburgh in August: [SNIP of description]
Someone needs to say, "I'll teach it".
Which is what I am saying... :)
If (1) is designed to prepare the way for (2), great. Ideally, a mentor for (1) would run the tutorial/workshop (2).
Again, would *you* like to create a tutorial? Or this workshop?
The third idea reasied in the thread was an alternative
3) Make it easier to write Smalltalk plugins for some popular CMS.
If someone _has_ written a Smalltalk plugins to existing CMS, or has knowledge of what that would require, they should write it up (or talk about it at ESUG, of course :-) ).
"they should"...
Yours faithfully Niall Ross
Sorry Niall for my "negging", don't mean harm. :) But just as an example of something *I* want to do (and has already started doing) is to create a good bridge between Erlang and Pharo/Squeak: http://www.squeaksource.com/JoesServer.html *That* might just be interesting to attract new people, well, in fact I have already attracted Joe Armstrong (!) with it - it was he who wanted me to write it in the first place, and Erlang is HOT these days. regards, Göran