Dear Grace Supporters
We have been planning to hold a number of Grace workshops in 2011
to get expert feedback, to report progress, to discuss challenges, and
hopefully to involve others more closely in the project.
Our first two potential dates are in February, when Andrew & James (at
least)
will be in the UK and Europe.
Our current thoughts on potential times are:
* Saturday 26th Feburary, in Darmstadt (after the ECOOP PC meeting)
* Monday 28th February in the UK (most likely London)
We hope some - many! - of you may be able to come to one or
both of these workshops. If you think you could make one or other,
then please let us know by emailling James, kjx(a)ecs,vuw.ac.nz.
Once we have sufficient interest, we'll confirm the dates and venues.
Some of you may have noticed some problems with the Grace blog this
week -
due mainly to issues with our commercial hosting provider.
Gracelang.org -
and the blog - are now hosted at Victoria University of Wellington, in
New Zealand, thanks to the ECS programming team & friends.
So while it make take a little longer to load, it should always be
there.
Again: the blog is at -
http://gracelang.org/applications
RSS for posts -
http://gracelang.org/applications/feed/
and comments -
http://gracelang.org/applications/comments/feed/
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Kim, Andrew & James
Dear Grace Supporters
This is another brief update on our progress on the Grace project to
date.
We have been working our way through the language design, and have
sketched out "version 0.1" drafts of most of the main operational
language
constructs. We're starting to think about type and module systems.
We are posting these as design notes (Gracenotes :-) to the blog at
http://gracelang.org - and we'd really appreciate your comments if
you have time to look over the posts there. We have found that
blog posts and attached comments make it easier to organise
discussions than carrying on conversations on mailing lists.
We hope you'll subscribe to the blog, there are RSS feeds
for posts -
http://gracelang.org/applications/feed/
and comments -
http://gracelang.org/applications/comments/feed/
(these are also available at the bottom of the blog page)
and, as you have time, to provide comments and feedback.
We do want this to be as open a process as possible.
If you would like posting rights on the blog, you will need to send
black(a)cs.pdx.edu a username and cleartext password.
Finally, we are starting to plan some Grace meetings next year:
* UK/Europe late February - around the time of the ECOOP PC meeting
* West Coast US late May/early June - meeting aligned with PLDI
* Lancaster late July - before or after ECOOP
* Portland late October - before or after OOPSLA
We are starting to think seriously about the February meeting.
If you're likely to be able to make it to that meeting, please let
us know - and also if you have any preferences about timing
(just before the 25th or after the 26th of February) or location
(UK South East vs Europe - most likely Darmstadt) please let
us know too.
cheers
Kim, Andrew & James
PS: for detailed design work, we have a second (higher traffic)
email list: "grace-core" for the core language design, along with a
wiki and svn repository. If you would really like to follow our
emerging work-in-progress very closely, then email black(a)cs.pdx.edu
including a username/password pair generated by "htpasswd -n
<username of your choice>" and we can grant you access.
