allenw@tekchips.TEK.COM (Brock) (09/15/87)
>>>>>> the following posting is relayed from Carl Nelson ...
From: hplabs!sun!sunup!chn@tektronix (Carl Nelson)
Press Release:
Independent Smalltalk Programmers and Developers Association to support
Smalltalk programmers and users.
The Object Oriented Programming for Smalltalk Application Developers
Association, known as OOPSTAD, was formed in August of 1987, and is an
independant nonprofit organization, not directly affiliated with any one
supplier of Smalltalk. OOPSTADUs broad goal is to help programmers, developers
and users of Smalltalk in their efforts to develop applications for either
commercial or personal use. HOOPLA (Hooray for Object Oriented Programmming
Languages),a quarterly newsletter will debut at the OOPSLAU87 conference
October 4-8 in Kissimme Florida. OOPSTAD will maintain a bulletin board for
questions and answers and bits of gossip, as well as a software library and
clearinghouse for those who wish to make available Smalltalk code to others.
There are approximately 15,000 owners of some version of Smalltalk, who can
benefit from a newsletter and bulletin board services. For those deciding
whether or not to use Smalltalk, Hoopla will provide advice on the
considerations and pitfalls of doing a project or application in Smalltalk.
Novices will find tutuorials and help in taking those first steps. For those
already using Smalltalk, Hoopla will be a place where they can share
experiences and code. Those already accomplished in writing Smalltalk
Applications can pass on their words of wisdom to those that come after. HOOPLA
will be a forum where the future of Smalltalk is discussed by those doing
research and implementing new ideas.
HOOPLA is written by people who are familiar with writing Smalltalk
Applications. Dan Ingalls from the orginal Smalltalk team will contribute
regular articles and sit on the editorial board. Sam Adams from Knowledge
Systems, manager of the North Carolina State University AI Lab, will contribute
his words of wisdom and software goodies that help in developing commercial
grade applications. Members of Evelyn VanordenUs group that wrote ANALYST (the
orignal Smalltalk integrated spreadsheet/graphic/word processing/mapping/ETC...
program) and HUMBLE at XEROX Special Information Systems will contribute
articles concerning Smalltalk Application Development. Kent Beck (formerly
from Tektronix, now at Apple) will contribute a regular column on Smalltalk
programming style. Technical contributions from various Smalltalk implementors
are planned. In addition our members will be expected to contribute ideas,
articles, source code and criticisms to the newsletter.
Corporate and Institutional memberships are $250. Individuals can join for $25
($35 International). To join send a check along with name, organization,
address, (and electronic address if avaialble) to:
OOPSTAD
P.O. Box 1565
Everett, WA 98206-1565
Members can also register by dialing up (206) 252-9048 (300/1200/2400baud) and
registering on-line with our bulletin board. For an additional $35 per year
individuals ($250 Corporations and Institutions) can gain access to Smalltalk
goodies contributed by our members. We have a very liberal contributors policy
to encourage our members to contribute and share their code.
Corporations or Institutions wishing to have a section of the bulletin
dedicated to their software or products can become bulletin board sponsors.
For more information on bulletin board sponorship contact Carl Nelson at
(206) 252-6897.