Fellow Smalltalkers, (this is a one-off to every Smalltalk list I can think of. Sorry for the Spam-esqe nature of this)
Work is under way to get the Smalltalk ANSI standardization process restarted. This is intended to be an on-going process which delivers a new version of the standard every 18 months to 2 years. The participation of all Smalltalkers is invited. The ANSI standard should be driven by the people who use Smalltalk as well as people who develop Smalltalk environments. Work on the standard will all happen through a mailing list: http://lists.openskills.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ansi-smalltalk The list archive is open and anyone may join the list. The only up front requirement being that you give your full name when signing up so everyone knows who is who. While anyone can get involved in discussion and informal votes, only people who are registered with the ANSI project may formally vote. Registration in this context means joining INCITS (the organization which coordinates IT ANSI standards work), and that costs $1,200 USD. Already we have the Smalltalk vendor companies getting involved. We also need people representing the user community. If you work in a company that uses Smalltalk please raise this ANSI work at your next team meeting and see if you can have someone (or more than one) from your project join the ANSI Smalltalk mailing list. Perhaps your company could fund the $1,200 to have someone be a voting member of the committee too. If you wish to discuss the ANSI project please either join the mailing list or post a message to comp.lang.smalltalk. The news group is the cross-dialect discussion forum for Smalltalk and the ANSI standard is most certainly cross-dialect. Best regards, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.org/ _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
