Re: Squeak as HyperCard

["Ian Bicking" <bickiia@earlham.edu>]

>    Can you put us in touch with those core developers?  If they're
> interested in education they might fit in well here, and we might be
> able to help out on this.  Vincent Konieczek might be especially
> interested in this.  Vincent, what do you think?

I think the core developers have a pretty good idea of what they 
want to do, and it doesn't really have to do with Linux per se 
(though Linux would benefit).  They have their plate full and more 
ideas than they have time to implement, so I don't know if this list 
has much to offer them.

However, we could go to them.  The most useful things I can think 
of towards our goals would be (a) isolating the features which are 
pretty solidly implemented, creating a bit more focus around this 
(both interface and documentation), and distributing it with all this 
set up, and (b) actually trying stuff out with real kids and/or other 
computer novices.  I think there would be a lot of receptivity 
towards attempting either of these goals.


One way or another, I feel pretty confident that Squeak will have all 
the functionality to replace HyperCard/HyperStudio eventually, and 
it will still run on Linux when that happens.  How long it will take...?


Just for the record, I'll not that Dan Ingalls 
<Dan.Ingalls@disney.com> is the buffer between the core 
developers and the rest of the world, and he'd be the one to contact 
first (other than maybe the Squeak mailing list, 
squeak@cs.uiuc.edu)



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Ian Bicking <bickiia@earlham.edu>