Mariano, That's a very good idea and useful also for us practitioners to get and implement some new ideas from theoretic works out there. So I am for this new mailing list!
Janko On 30. 01. 2010 14:35, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > Hi folks. Before sending this email to all smalltalk mailing lists, I > first wanted to ask you what do you think. > > I am new in the world of the research and about reading and discussing > about papers. If what I propose already exist, forget this mail and > please tell me where is it. > > I was thinking to have a place, an environment (mailing list), where we > can freely discuss about Smalltalk or OO in general papers. At the > beginning I though to put this inside the Pharo mailing list but then I > though it is better to do a new mailing list where all smalltalkers of > all flavors can join and discuss. > > The main purpose about that list is: > > - be able to FREELY discuss about papers about Smalltalk or OO in > general. I say freely because maybe someone gives an opinion of a paper > that the person who wrote it is also in this place. We are all > professional and I think we can discuss with respect. > - LEARN. > > Other uses: > - Don't reinvent the wheel. Maybe I wanted to do something and I read > that XXX person did YYY. So, I can look at it. > - Be aware of what other people is doing, working, writing and learning > - Have different opinions of a certain topic / paper. > - A little step to join all the Smalltalk community in one place. We can > meet people, join forces, etc. > - Help in the preparation, ANN, collaborate, etc in Workshops, > conferences, and so on > - Ask for help on review. Several times someone has several papers to > review for a certain conference. This can be a place to ask for that help. > - Publish papers that were rejected from someone. How many times some > papers where rejected but do you still read it and find it useful ? > - Ask for feedback for a paper before submitting it in a conference/workshop > - Educate people and being educated > - Share latex template, commands, or tricks related to smalltalk code > for example > - Discuss about research in general > - Ask for a certain topic. Suppose I want to start to work in XXX topic, > I can ask to see if someone knows related papers or work. > - others > > I will give you an example: this week I have been reading a paper about > LOOM - Large Object Oriented Memory. This paper is from ECOOP 1986 > (the only thing an Argentinian can think about that year is Maradona's > goals to England in Mexico ;) ). I was one year old at that time. LOOM > was based in Smalltalk 80. I had no idea about that. I had to read some > chapters of the blue book first in order to then understand LOOM. I have > ever seen LOOM code, I don't know what happened with it, etc. So, maybe > there is someone who even saw LOOM in live, he saw the code, he knows > what happened, if it worked really or not, the advantages and drawbacks, > the repercussion it had, etc. That information, those opinions, you > cannot get it from other place. > > So, what do you think? Do you like the idea or has no sense ? If you > like and has sense, I will create the mailing list and send it to all > Smalltalk mailing lists I know. > > In two words: DISCUSS AND LEARN. > > Cheers > > Mariano -- Janko Mivšek AIDA/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
