El sáb, 30-01-2010 a las 14:35 +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck escribió: > 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.
+10 > > Cheers > > Mariano > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project -- Miguel Cobá http://miguel.leugim.com.mx _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
