Hi Donna, If you want to meet Linux users, you should check out SCaLe. http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/
Chris... On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi LinuxUsers, > > Below is a message I made up for the homeschooling lists I belong to. Would > love to meet up with you at one of the local interations of > the lectures. Would love to peak your interest in the projects the Hawthorne > Center is in to. > > Donna > > ============================ > > Hi All, > > The Hawthorne Center for Innovation, located in the Fontana area of the > Inland Empire, has been supporting (for the past 6+years) the work of Ben > Cooper (Senior Research Scientist-in-Residence here at the Hawthorne Center > for Innovation) as he has been doing original research in the areas of > computer hardware (he has developed a non-binary architecture) / software > development (as well as in the area of sustainable energy production > - currently, he is also perfecting the design for a solar-powered turbine > engine he has invented). > > For the last 3 years, Ben has been teaching a group of homeschoolers about > the benefits of working with a free version of the Smalltalk programming > language: Squeak - the language Ben considers the language of the > future. (Some of you may have met Ben at past CHN Expos or at past > Ontario-based Home School Fairs). > > Next week there will be 5 chances for those in the SoCal area who would > like to get an introduction to Smalltalk to hear more about it. James Foster > will be making presentations where questions you may have on the efficacy of > Smalltalk can be answered. Read about what he has to say about Smalltalk: > http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/socal/ > > > > - Monday, February 16, at Caltech for the Los Angeles Smalltalk User's > Group <http://lastug.zwiki.org/LASTUGWiki> > - Tuesday, February 17, at 11:00 AM in Room 146 of the Price Science > Complex at La Sierra University<http://www.lasierra.edu/departments/cs/> > - Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM in Room A-826 of Nichol Hall at Loma > Linda University <http://llu.edu/map/> > - Wednesday evening, February 18, for San Diego's Ruby > Community<http://sdruby.com/>(details forthcoming) > - Thursday, February 19, at UCLA for the Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup > Group <http://ruby.meetup.com/84/> > > > We, here at the Hawthorne Center, will, in a couple of months, be *finally > * launching a site for uploading all of history - based on my 20 years of > historical research and Ben's just finished "fuzzy" cloud-based web > framework written in Smalltalk. Ben's framework is even more revolutionary > than the one that James Foster will be presenting - Ben's is scaleable so > as to have the potential to become the biggest website on the Internet. > Also, over the next couple of months, Ben will finish coding a web framework > that will allow "the rest of us" to create their own website with drag-and > drop elements available in the above-mentioned Squeak version of Smalltalk. > > (Ben and I plan to be at the Caltech, La Sierra U, and Loma Linda U > presentations if you would like to meet up with us and get the specifics of > what we are up to. Or, feel free to contact me anytime). > > Hope to make contact with you, > > Donna Schrokosch, > Founder, Hawthorne Center for Innovation > donna @hawcenter.org > 909-350-0311 > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
