Excellent. I love it. But please, move to the thread "Smalltalk app demo for GSoC"
It is getting complicated to follow all projects in one single thread and cross maling-list. Cheers Mariano On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Stan Shepherd <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:08 PM, stan shepherd wrote: > > > >> I know the deadline approaches, however- how does the community feel > >> about a project to implement a real demonstration system (along the > >> lines of defunct Sushi store)? > >> ... > >> > >> Do people think it's useful for me to develop a proposal? > > > > yes! > >> > >> Cheers, ..Stan > >> > >> PS I realise that picking a component as part of the stack is fraught > >> with possibilities of offending supporters of an alternative project. > >> But more Smalltalkers overall means more potential users of each > >> project > >> > > > > Hi, I had a first pass at a proposal. Feel free to improve upon it. The > major question is whether we should bite the bullet and nominate what > technologies we would use to build the reference implementation. It would > also make it easier to nominate the mentors, if they are to be experts in > the particular technologies. I think we had some volunteers previously for > Seaside/Grease related projects? > > > Smalltalk is enjoying a resurgence in its development, with a great deal of > development going into building out its abilities to underpin a web > framework. > Auctomatic was a recent startup built in Smalltalk, that received seed > funding from Y-Combinator and was acquired by Live Current Media. People > who > build in Smalltalk know that it lends itself to fast development, and that > web aplications can be upgraded on the fly, without the need to take down > the server. > > The goal of this project is to spread the use of Smalltalk to a wider > audience. The scope is to produce a reference implementation of a Smalltalk > stack, in the form of a working e-commerce site. The participants will > select and integrate the preferred technologies, and build on existing > demonstration systems. The result will make it much easier for potential > new > Smalltalkers to evaluate the technology, by seeing a fully working example, > and then to get started on their own application by downloading that same > example as a working template. > > The Smalltalk community, and in particular the open source Smalltalk > community, will benefit as follows: > improved quality and documentation of the technology stack at its > interfaces > Availability of a one stop solution as the basis for new projects > better ability to attract new participants and projects to Smalltalk. > > The student participant will gain experience of implementation of a real > world Smalltalk project, and of the practicalities of e-commerce > development. The student would be well positioned to participate in a > startup using the technology stack. > > > Cheers, ...Stan > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Google-Summer-Of-Code-2010-news-tp1582769p1588111.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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