Re: ESUG SummerTalk 2007 Strongtalk project

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:03:06 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.strongtalk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi David,

Have you found a student for that project?
It's definitely cool that Strongtalk will be presented at ESUG
SummerTalk.. and project mm so interesting ;)

Best regards,

On May 1, 4:23 am, "David Griswold" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> ESUG has graciously offered to fund a student to help with the Strongtalk
> project as part of the SummerTalk 2007 program (thanks Stephane).
> SummerTalk will pay the student 1500 euros for this work.   I will be acting
> as mentor for this project.
>
> While there are various possibilities for this project, I will be starting
> to work on porting Squeak to the Strongtalk VM, and ideally I would like to
> find someone who wants to work with me on that.    This will entail diving
> deeply into the Squeak and Strongtalk VM interfaces, and figuring out how to
> adapt the Squeak image so that it will boot off the Strongtalk VM.  This
> ought to be a very interesting tour through the guts of two very interesting
> systems.  If the port turns out to be too large a job, there are subtasks
> that can be fairly easily defined, such as setting up the Strongtalk system
> for re-bootstrapping, which is a necessary step.
>
> Of course, there are other possibilities if that doesn't sound interesting
> or if your talents lie in other areas.   For example, there is work in
> progress on porting the Strongtalk VM to Linux and MacOS that is a high
> priority for the Strongtalk project.
>
> Please contact me if you are registered or if you know someone who might be
> interested, at David.takeThisPartOut.Griswold.at.acm.org
>
> - Dave


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