Re: Squeak Oversight Board Election 2019

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On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 00:24, Ron Teitelbaum <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> It's that time again.
>

After years of watching, this year I signed up to vote for the first time!
A personal development program I'm involved in made me realize I've been
keeping myself on the sidelines
since the election normally takes care of itself - but my complacency
disconnects me from my community.

So I signed up. I would encourage anyone else lurking to also do so.  It
really didn't hurt.


And then someone encouraged me to nominate.

My first thought was "no, I'm more involved with Pharo".
Then after consideration I realized who I am is someone concerned with the
continuation of Squeak
and with a foot in both camps I may have something of value to offer the
Squeak community.

While the two dialects are diverging significantly at the UI level, my
interests lie
at the lower levels where there doesn't "necessarily" need to a lot of
differences.
Notwithstanding opposing design decisions, the natural enemy is isolation.

So should the Squeak community see value in it, I would:
      * quantify the low level Squeak/Pharo differences referenced against
Pharo's headless build
      * promote low level homogenization of dialects (and I'll be glad to
learn something new from any dissent around design decisions)
      * promote a headless version of Squeak to run on the same minheadless
VM that Pharo is targetting
      * work to reduce dialect specific IFDEFS in the vm code

I offer my candidacy for the 2019 Squeak Oversight Board on that platform.
If you see the possibility of that benefiting Squeak, please let your
opinion
be known by voting, particularly if you've not voted before.

cheers -ben

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 0=
0:24, Ron Teitelbaum &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]=
om</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"=
gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(20=
4,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div>Hi=
 All,</div><div><br></div><div>It&#39;s that time again.=C2=A0</div></div><=
/div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>After years of watching, this y=
ear I signed up to vote for the first time!=C2=A0=C2=A0</div><div>A persona=
l development program I&#39;m involved in made me realize I&#39;ve been kee=
ping myself on the sidelines=C2=A0</div><div>since the election normally ta=
kes care of itself - but my complacency disconnects me from my community.</=
div><div><br></div><div>So I signed up. I would encourage anyone else lurki=
ng to also do so.=C2=A0 It really didn&#39;t hurt.</div><div><br></div><div=
><br></div><div>And then someone encouraged me to nominate.=C2=A0=C2=A0</di=
v><div><br></div><div>My first thought was &quot;no, I&#39;m more involved =
with Pharo&quot;.=C2=A0=C2=A0</div><div>Then after consideration I realized=
 who I am is someone concerned with the continuation of Squeak=C2=A0</div><=
div>and with a foot in both camps I may have something of value to offer th=
e Squeak community.</div><div><br></div><div>While the two dialects are div=
erging significantly at the UI level, my interests lie=C2=A0</div><div>at t=
he lower levels where there doesn&#39;t &quot;necessarily&quot; need to a l=
ot of differences.=C2=A0=C2=A0</div><div>Notwithstanding opposing design de=
cisions, the natural enemy is isolation.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>So =
should the Squeak community see value in it, I would:</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 * quantify the low level Squeak/Pharo differences referenced aga=
inst Pharo&#39;s headless build</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 * promote lo=
w level homogenization of dialects (and I&#39;ll be glad to learn something=
 new from any dissent around design decisions)</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 * promote a headless version of Squeak to run on the same minheadless V=
M that Pharo is targetting<br></div><div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 * work t=
o reduce dialect specific IFDEFS in the vm code</div><br class=3D"gmail-App=
le-interchange-newline"></div><div>I offer my candidacy for the 2019 Squeak=
 Oversight Board on that platform.=C2=A0=C2=A0</div><div>If you see the pos=
sibility of that benefiting Squeak, please let your opinion=C2=A0</div><div=
>be known by voting, particularly if you&#39;ve not voted before.</div><div=
><br></div><div>cheers -ben</div></div></div></div>

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