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SqueakEnd '00 Topic Outline

1. Project Areas
2. Application Areas
3. Technical Issues
4. Language Issues
5. Random Topics
6. Problems
7. Basic Issues

1. Project Areas
   
   1. Reorganize default image
      
      1. Start-up screen, doc
         
      2. Multiple projects for novices, app demo, etc.
         
      3. Re-work of squeak.org
         
   2. Better OutOofBox experience
      
      1. The 1st minute
         
      2. The 1st hour
         
      3. The 1st 24 hours
         
      4. "How do I..." page/book for intermediate users
         
   3. Squeak Video/CD-ROM/DVD demo, PR in general
      
      1. Dan/Alan demos
         
      2. Programming demos
         
      3. Application demos
         
      4. Tutorial
         
      5. Vocabulary
         
   4. SqueakPro
      
      1. Delivering "DOA" (sealed) applications
         
      2. "Double-clickable" applications
         
   5. Kitchen Sink images
      
   6. VisualWorks/VisualAge compatibility
      
      1. Language issues
         
      2. GUI widgets
         
      3. Declarative GUI formats (window specs)
         
   7. Morphic-only Image
      
      1. Dropping MVC
         
      2. Morphic performance on machines with no FPU
         
   8. ORBs, DistributedSmalltalk
      
      1. Squeak RMI
         
      2. CORBA IDL and ORB
         
   9. Custom Explorers/Editors
      
      1. Freedom Pattern/Model
         
      2. Generic OE interface
         
      3. TemplateMorph, generic editor
         
      4. Browsing nets, webs, heterarchies
         
      5. Mix of in-line and multi-list outlines
         
   10. Hand-held (micro-editions) systems
       
   11. Shared projects
       
   12. Music/Sound
       
       1. New sound synthesis techniques
          
       2. Many-channel sound
          
       3. Better speech I/O
          
   13. Plug-in-ized VM
       
       1. Pluggable GC and interpretation mechanism
          
       2. SqueakScript VM
          

2. Application Areas
   
   1. Systems for Children, Education
      
      1. LearningWorks for Squeak
         
      2. Tutorial Outline
         
   2. Mapping
      
      1. GIS
         
   3. Content delivery
      
      1. Books, book construction
         
      2. Streaming media (with limited memory)
         
      3. Decompression(MPEG, MP3)
         
   4. "Business" apps
      
      1. Word Processing
         
      2. Spreadsheets
         
      3. Idea processors
         
      4. "Servers"
         
   5. Music/Sound
      
      1. Personal media: digital cameras, editors
         
      2. FireWire I/O
         
   6. Shared Tools, games
      
   7. Special (visual) Effects
      
   8. VR, Simulation, Animation
      
   9. Scripts: shell, PERL, Javascript
      
   10. Tools to port
       
       1. Refactoring browser
          
       2. Application Manager
          
       3. TGen
          
       4. Advanced (factored, reusable) Compiler
          
   11. Scriptable Intelligent Agents
       

3. Technical Issues
   
   1. Buffered (faster) I/O
      
   2. Refactored IO, name, accessor, stream
      
   3. Non-scaling widgets
      
   4. Robust applications (use exceptions in system classes)
      
   5. New Tools (merged browser/debugger)
      
   6. Support for instance-specific behavior (prototypes)
      
      1. Using values and blocks
         
      2. Using new Behavior subclasses
         
   7. Widget set
      
      1. Radio buttons
         
      2. Combo boxes
         
      3. Hierarchical (pull-right) menus
         
      4. Pie menus
         
      5. Gesture input (check, slash)
         
   8. OutOfBox experience
      
      1. Start-up state
         
      2. Novice/tutorial image
         
      3. Documentation
         
   9. XML I/O
      
      1. XML RPC
         
   10. GUI construction tool
       
   11. Make adding command-keys to less painful
       
       1. Declarative (single) format for menu and cmd-keys
          
       2. More specialized P-Editor menus
          
   12. Micro-image/VM and boot-strapping
       
   13. Higher VM Performance
       
       1. Jitter3
          
       2. Native code compilation, dynamic translation
          
       3. PICaches, HotSpot technology
          
   14. Closures, block temps
       
   15. Native look *and* feel
       
       1. "Getting 80% of the way there"
          
       2. Easy selection for new users
          
       3. Default is host platform look
          
       4. User selection stored in .squeakrc
          
       5. User skins
          
   16. External Interfaces/Foreign Functions
       
       1. QuickTime
          
       2. Other services
          
       3. Callbacks, call-in
          
   17. User levels
       
       1. Vision restriction
          
       2. Beginner's project
          
       3. Novice tools
          
   18. Output media, display morphs onto other media
       
       1. Flash
          
       2. PostScript
          
       3. HTML (VisualWave, ClassicBlend)
          
       4. OpenGL
          
   19. Tools for team development
       
       1. CM tools
          
       2. Distributed programming
          
   20. Fonts, text model
       
   21. Linda-like Tuples
       
   22. Flash Tools
       
       1. Authoring tools
          
       2. Delivery
          
       3. ShockWave
          
   23. Portable MIDI I/O
       
   24. Many-channel Sound
       
   25. 3D stereo-optic Squeak tools
       
   26. Native widgets
       
   27. Multiprocessor support
       
   28. Cryptography
       
   29. Security
       
   30. High-precision floating-point
       
   31. Netscape plug-in, applets
       

4. Language Issues
   
   1. Types
      
   2. Interfaces, protocol-as-signature
      
   3. Protocols
      
      1. Private protocols
         
      2. Filtered views
         
   4. Assertions, pre/post-conditions
      
   5. Multiple value returns
      
   6. Namespaces
      

5. Random Topics
   
   1. Squeak culture, community
      
      1. Squeak and OpenSource
         
      2. Squeak is to Smalltalk what Linux is to UNIX
         
      3. Fostering the Squeak community
         
   2. Style Guide on Swiki
      
      1. Instantiations version
         
      2. ParcPlace version
         
      3. Which can we put on the Web?
         

6. Problems
   
   1. OutOfBox experience, documentation
      
      1. Look and feel
         
      2. Window resize
         
      3. Need "how do I..." examples
         
   2. No native look&feel
      
   3. Morphic performance
      
   4. Scaling widgets
      
   5. No types, no interfaces
      
   6. Obsolete classes
      
   7. Packages, versions, namespaces
      
   8. No GUI builder (Fabrik)
      
   9. Window size and variable screen sizes
      
   10. No virtual desktop
       
   11. blocks ~= closures
       
   12. Compiler hard to reuse
       
   13. CM tools
       
   14. VM not reentrant
       
   15. No multiprocessor support
       
   16. Preemptive schedulers
       
   17. Non-blocking external calls
       

7. Basic Issues (Tim's taxonomy)
   
   1. Object Engine
      
      1. VM
         
      2. OS integration
         
   2. Application Framework
      
      1. Widgets, scheduling
         
   3. User Conveniences
      
      1. Tools, kbd mapping
         
   4. Novice Experience
      
      1. LearningWorks
         
      2. OutOfBox experience
         
      3. Documentation!