I looked at their site but couldn't see any info yet. On the other hand there is always a spontaneous Camp Smalltalk at OOPSLA. :-)
From tpr - We took over a number of tables in the upper hallway and had some fun. Attendance was well down for the con generally and I imagine the fires discouraged more than a few people from attending. No Craig, no Eliot etc. Someone pointed out that the LA basin could have been a good place to film the Vale Of Mordor scenes for LOTR 3. Lots of smoke, bad air (even worse than normal for LA) and the sun a red smudge in the sky. Network access was amusing - many of us were able to tunnel through the 'security' on the con.centre's firewall to at least get email. Some even got web access for a while.
Squeak BOF
Current plan is as proposed by Dan Ingalls: "I think we have a tradition of doing it just after supper (ie 7:30-ish) the night before the "social event", unless it conflicts with something else we like. I therefore propose 7:30pm on Tuesday, just for purposes of discussion."
[Mon am] We just got a large room (202B) reserved, with data projector. - DI
Squeak BOF notes
[Please correct my brief notes. dgc]
Douglas Way presiding
About 40 in attendance
7:40 PM - 10:00 PM
29-Oct-2003
Presenters
Dan Ingalls & Michael Rueger
Squeak PC - mostly OS-less - minimal Linux
Approaching the old vision of a Squeak only machine
Intended for remote access weather station
Low Power, no fan (for lower speed cpus, fan needed for >800MHz)
aprox. $200 - $300 USD (See www.solarpc.com)
533 to 1000 mhz. depending on cost.
VIA CPU
boots and runs from Compact Flash as "disk" with IDE adaptor
all major I/O ports
Ned Konz
Constraints with Connectors
Uses Balloon 2D for antialiasing of lines etc
TrueType Glyph Editor
Tool Bars
Genie - App specific gestures.
utterly wonderful to see in use. Way more exciting than the M$ supplied demos.
Takashi Yamamiya
These were examples of his art as a performance artist.
Natural Language Game
Parses any man made syntax
Link sound to Syntax
Skeleton
Constraint System
He demonstrated animated 2D cartoon characters that dance to music. Animation was done by connecting drawn morphs of head, torso, forearms, and lower legs and then connecting them with constraint lines. The lines stretched and bounced back like rubber bands. The midi music parameters gave the limbs direction and speed.[dgc]
Several popular books written. Exploding in popularity in Japan.
There was a TV show featured Alan Kay in Apr. 2002. It portlays Alan teaching the UES kids about the computing, interleaved story of the personal computing history, and the kids using Squeak to make their own games/projects. It fueled up the awareness of Squeak in Japan – Yoshiki.
[We also need a mechanism for cycling in Japanese updates. dgc]
Squeak running on Sharp Zarus
Nathanael Schärli
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