The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 8: Nov 19, 2006 - Jan 6, 2007

[Michael Haupt-3]

Dear Squeakers,

welcome to the The WeeklySqueakSummary, a weekly report on what's
going on in the world of Squeak based on the WeeklySqueak blog.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

It's been quite a while since the last summary, for various reasons.
Several low-traffic weeks didn't make summarising them look sensible,
and then there were the holidays... here we are again.

Highlights of the past weeks:

The OLPC project is still being (sometimes heatedly) debated. Nicholas
Negroponte, the project's founder, pointedly discusses the project
opponents' opinions in a video [1] that also contains some educators'
comments.

Another video contains a talk on Exupery by Bryce Kampjes [11]. The
slides are readable in the video, but unfortunately, the video itself
is incomplete because the tape ran out during recording.

Finally, there is a tutorial on setting up a SqueakSource image to
create your own SqueakSource server [9], making available
project-oriented version control for everyone without the need for
having access to the server at squeaksource.com itself.

The past weeks' news items:

[1] Extra! Gemstone Goes Seaside!
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/extra-gemstone-goes-seaside/

[2] Touring Seaside. Creating a Blog with Magritte
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/touring-seaside-creating-a-blog-with-magritte/

[3] Breaking Barriers
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/07/breaking-barriers/

[4] CallBacks!
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/15/callbacks/

[5] Storing ImageSegments Outside the Image
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/storing-imagesegments-outside-the-image/

[6] What are my Options?
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/what-are-my-options/

[7] OOPSLA there it is! oopsla 2006
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/oopsla-there-it-is-oopsla-2006/

[8] Gjallar demo at OOPSLA 2006
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/gjallar-demo-at-oopsla-2006/

[9] Creating SqueakSource
    http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/creating-squeaksource/

[10] Sun Rise or Sun Set?
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/sun-rise-or-sun-set/

[11] Exupery Talk
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/exupery-talk/

[12] Croquet Edit and Create 3d Objects
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/croquet-edit-and-create-3d-objects/

[13] Nicholas Negroponte discusses OLPC
     http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/nicholas-negroponte-discusses-olpc/

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Happy squeaking,

Michael
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