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First Board Meeting   20-Jan-09 (teefal)

Our new board of directors held its first meeting last Thursday, where we approved the name, elected our officers, and made plans for this year's Squeakfest events. The new board includes: Tim Falconer Kim Rose Walter Bender Rita Freudenberg Kathleen Harness Marta Voelcker Scott Wallace Yoshiki Ohshima Milan Zimmerman These nine people are just the start, of course. Please help us in our mission to "build community and encourage deep learning worldwide by promoting, supporting, and improving Squeak Etoys and related educational media."...



Squeakland Foundation Begins   20-Jan-09 (teefal)

(by Kim Rose, from newsletter) Happy New Year to all! Alan Kay and I are both excited to announce the formation of Squeakland Foundation, a non-profit organization that will take over from Viewpoints Research as the guardians of Etoys. A critical piece of the mission of Viewpoints Research is to deliver free and open source exemplars and prototypes to the world and then spin them out to new organizations so that they may advance, grow, and evolve. Etoys is now ready to leave the Viewpoints nest and begin its next phase of life. Led by Tim Falconer and Rita Freudenberg,...