RE: ESUG SummerTalk 2007 Strongtalk project

Hi,

Yes, we have someone who I will be working with on this.  We'll be starting
to work on it after next week, when I will be back from vacation- I am out
of the country now.  Hopefully we'll see some progress then!
- Dave

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> Subject: Re: ESUG SummerTalk 2007 Strongtalk project
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>
> 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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