I have been a research-oriented Squeaker in Seattle since 1998, and had never managed to gather more than two or three users at a time, so this is welcome. However, I have been living in Portland for the last two years on another job where there is an actual set of long-time smalltalkers who meet regularly. It just so happens that I'm in Seattle interviewing for new positions, though, so would be glad to meet this week/end or soon in the next upcoming weeks.
Also, I work on this Smalltalk dialect called Slate. :-) Sent from my iPad On Apr 13, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rather than just cross post the announcement I made on squeak-dev, I figured > I'd write a separate note for this list. I've been thinking about trying to > identify like-minded programmers in my area. I go to the local Ruby and Perl > groups from time to time, and I often feel like I'm hijacking the > conversation there, so I decided to start a meet up group where I don't have > to justify talking about the tech I'm most interested in. > > Industry people often tend not to want to hear about current research, if > just because there's that learned helplessness around "I won't be able to use > this at work until I'm retired." I reckon I can put a ding in that culture. > It may have taken 29 years of searching for a Squeak image to land in my lap, > but this isn't 1970, my grandfather just hit me up on Facebook to point out > that Facebook has totally jumped the shark. I don't think we really need to > wait thirty years to make our "industrial" software suck less, because the > puzzle pieces are displayed in three dimensions beneath the glass of the > tabletop in front of us now, and there's nothing left in the way of a > dialogue about them except the preconceptions in our minds. > > I chose the name because I thought "smalltalk programming" as a topic would > be the most searchable and searched upon phrase that people interested in > coming to something like this might type. Total stupid Google trick. In fact, > I really just want a friendly venue where folks can talk about whatever > technology interests them, and I wanted to point out that absolutely > everything that I've seen discussed on this list is 100% on-topic as far as > I'm concerned, so if you're in the area: please, sign up! And if not, think > about dropping in sometime if you're ever in the neighborhood. If there's a > real theme, it's late bound systems, but if you wanted to talk about the JVM? > Okay. Used to be called Strongtalk right? That's good enough for me. > > Want to talk about an idea you had to simplify CLOS? Or about how you're > halfway finished making your Sketchpad clone work on the iPad? Have a > language you've invented? Feel like you're so close to identifying the > Bose-Einstein condensate of computer programming that you can almost taste it > in macroscopic space? This is what I want to hear about over chai or beer > when my workaday is done, so come on out and shout. > > The site is here: > > http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Smalltalk-Users-Group/ > > -- > Casey Ransberger > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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