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.
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:
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:
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