Dear Squeakers, I'm happy to tell you that we have a new Squeakland Board in place! On our last board meeting at April, 27 we came up with a list of candidates, and everyone accepted. We now have Rita Freudenberg, Cathleen Galas, Walter Bender, Scott Wallace, Ted Kaehler, Randall Caton, Elliot Miranda, Cherry Withers, Kathleen Harness, Marta Voelker, Milan Zimmerman, Carlos Rabassa, and Korakurider on the board. http://www.squeakland.org/about/people/ I want to thank everyone on the previous board for all the work you did during the last year, especially the leaving board members Kim Rose, Yoshiki Oshima, and Tim Falconer. On...

Thanks to the diligent work of Cathie and others, we were able to send the application of Squakland Foundation to become part of the Software Freedom Conservancy today! We know that the process will take some time, since the SFC has a backlog for acceptance of projects of up to three to six months. But this process has now started!...

The official Squeakfest website is now live and ready for you to propose a presentation, workshop, or panel. http://squeakfest.org The dates for Squeakfest USA in Wilmington NC are July 26, 27, 28. The theme for this year's conference will be "Etoys in the STEM classroom." As we are in the place where the NSF project Using Squeak to Infuse Technology (USeIT) is reaching it's 3rd year, we will see and learn a lot about their experiences. If you've got experience teaching with Etoys, we'd love to hear about it, as would the attendees of the conference. We're also very interested...