[LinuxUsers] Smalltalk Lecture(s)

Fri Feb 13 23:22:02 UTC 2009

Hi Chris,

I usually have a booth a SCALE. I didn't apply for one this year because I didn't have anything to show to the committee in time  about what Ben and I have been working (their last call was at Xmas) and, as it is, what we are working will still be pre-pre-beta by the time of the show. 

However, I am hoping that Loma Linda and La Sierra will attract a good-size audience of locals interested in Smalltalk that Ben and I can get connected up with and present to in the March / April time-frame By then we will be ready to present Ben's killer apps that will finally put Squeak Smalltalk on the map big-time. 

Nice to talk with you,

Donna

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Penn 
  To: SoCal LUG Users List 
  Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 2:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] Smalltalk Lecture(s)

  Hi Donna, 

  If you want to meet Linux users, you should check out SCaLe.
  http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/

  Chris...

  On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:22 PM, <donna at hawcenter.org> wrote:

    Hi LinuxUsers,

    Below is a message I made up for the homeschooling lists I belong to. Would love to meet up with you at one of the local interations of the lectures. Would love to peak your interest in the projects the Hawthorne Center is in to.

    Donna 

    ============================

    Hi All,

    The Hawthorne Center for Innovation, located in the Fontana area of the Inland Empire, has been supporting (for the past 6+years) the work of Ben Cooper (Senior Research Scientist-in-Residence here at the Hawthorne Center for Innovation) as he has been doing original research in the areas of computer hardware (he has developed a non-binary architecture) / software development (as well as in the area of sustainable energy production - currently, he is also perfecting the design for a solar-powered turbine engine he has invented). 

    For the last 3 years, Ben has been teaching a group of homeschoolers about the benefits of working with a free version of the Smalltalk programming language: Squeak  - the language Ben considers the language of the future. (Some of you may have met Ben at past CHN Expos or at past Ontario-based Home School Fairs). 

    Next week there will be 5 chances for those in the SoCal area who would like to get an introduction to Smalltalk to hear more about it. James Foster will be making presentations where questions you may have on the efficacy of Smalltalk can be answered. Read about what he has to say about Smalltalk:  http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/socal/

      a.. Monday, February 16, at Caltech for the Los Angeles Smalltalk User's Group 
      b.. Tuesday, February 17, at 11:00 AM in Room 146 of the Price Science Complex at La Sierra University 
      c.. Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM in Room A-826 of Nichol Hall at Loma Linda University 
      d.. Wednesday evening, February 18, for San Diego's Ruby Community (details forthcoming) 
      e.. Thursday, February 19, at UCLA for the Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group

    We, here at the Hawthorne Center, will, in a couple of months, be finally launching a site for uploading all of history - based on my 20 years of historical research and Ben's just finished "fuzzy" cloud-based web framework written in Smalltalk. Ben's framework is even more revolutionary than the one that James Foster will be presenting  - Ben's is scaleable so as to have the potential to become the biggest website on the Internet. Also, over the next couple of months, Ben will finish coding a web framework that will allow "the rest of us" to create their own website with drag-and drop elements available in the above-mentioned Squeak version of Smalltalk. 

    (Ben and I plan to be at the Caltech, La Sierra U, and Loma Linda U presentations if you would like to meet up with us and get the specifics of what we are up to. Or, feel free to contact me anytime).

    Hope to make contact with you,

    Donna Schrokosch,
    Founder, Hawthorne Center for Innovation
    donna @hawcenter.org
    909-350-0311

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