Yes!
On Jan 30, 2010, at 2:35 PM, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
