Community

Squeak has an active and enthusiastic user community. Participants include teachers working on curriculum materials, enthusiasts, commercial and academic users, and a number of "quantum mechanics" interested in newer and better approaches to the ultimate goal of making high-quality computation simple and efficient.

If you want to join this vibrant community a good place to start is to read the Community How-To.

Mailing lists

Most communication happens on the mailing lists. Feel free to subscribe and say hello!

Swiki

The Squeak community maintains a swiki that tracks various projects and documentation efforts:

• Official Squeak Wiki

IRC Chat

Have a question that you need answered quickly? Would you like to meet with other squeakers around the world? A great place to participate in longer-term discussions is the IRC channel on the "#squeak" channel at freenode.net. Stop by and say "Hi!"

For instructions on connecting, visit our IRC Portal.

Community sites

There are several websites supporting the Squeak community today in various ways, here are some:

• Squeak Board Blog, where our Squeak Oversight Board put its announcements and decisions.
• Weekly Squeak is our news service, reporting the important news from the Squeak world.
• PlanetSqueak is an RSS aggregator. Good place to get a flood of Squeaky things. This includes the latest blog entries from devlopers and others who have an interest in Squeak.
• Squeak at frappr is a place track the Squeak users around the world.

Links to Smalltalk User Groups and companies etc:

• ESUG European Smalltalk User Group
• ClubSmalltalk

Developer Corner

Squeak is the foundation of a lot of advanced projects

• Seaside and Aida/Web, two Smalltalk web frameworks for building complex web applications.
• Monticello is a packaging system for Squeak (similar to CVS and Store VisualWorks).
• SqueakMap is a catalog of packages developed in Squeak and Squeak developers.
• SqueakSource is a site that hosts a Monticello version-control repository and many projects in development for Squeak.

Bug Tracking

We currently use Mantis for issue tracking, both for Squeak itself and other Squeak projects.

Educator Corner

• Etoys is a visual script-based multimedia authoring environment to learn science and math.
• Squeakpolis is the website that include anything the teachers need using Squeak at their classrooms in Extremadura, Spain.
• Croquet is a 3D peer-to-peer authoring environment.
• Sophie is a project to develop an open-source authoring system for media rich electronic documents.

Supporting Companies and Institutions

• Hitflip and Hitmeister
• netstyle.ch
• Smallthought
• Software Composition Group of the University of Berne
• Language and Software Evolution Group of the University of Savoie, France.
• Viewpoints Research which supported the start of Squeak itself.
• IUT de Caen, Dªpartement Informatique, France.
• Research in computer science at the Ecole des Mines de Douai, France.