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Grace Workshop in Lancaster, Saturday 30 July (& BOF earlier??)
by Kim Bruce 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Dear Grace Supporters The next Grace workshop will happen next week - on Saturday 30th July, after ECOOP in Lancaster. These workshops are to report progress on the design, to discuss challenges, and hopefully to involve others in the project. At this workshop, we also hope to show some very early prototypes that we are building to test the specification. So, if you’re interested, and are able to come to this workshop, please let us know by emailing James, kjx(a)ecs.vuw.ac.nz, so we have some idea who’s coming. If you can't stick around for Saturday, but will be at ECOOP, we are also considering setting up a BOF group for Grace. If there is interest then perhaps we can meet sometime Tuesday evening after the workshops (time to be arranged), please e-mail us and let us know and we will try to arrange something as we hope for a lot of feedback to our design. The final workshop for the year will be held in Portland, in association with the SPLASH/OOPSLA conference, probably the weekend before SPLASH or the Monday evening before SPLASH. We hope some - many! - of you will be able to come to one or both of these workshops. cheers Kim & James & Andrew

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Grace Workshop in Lancaster, Saturday 30 July
by James Noble 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Dear Grace Supporters the next Grace workshop will happen at the end of the month - on Saturday 30th July, after ECOOP in Lancaster. These workshops are to report progress on the design, to discuss challenges, and hopefully to involve others in the project. At this workshop, we also hope to show some very early prototypes that we are building to test the specification. So, if you’re interested, and are able to come to this workshop, please let us know by emailing James, kjx(a)ecs.vuw.ac.nz, so we have some idea who’s coming. The final workshop for the year will be held in Portland, they day after the SPLASH/OOPSLA conference. We hope some - many! - of you will be able to come to one or both of these workshops. cheers James (& Andrew & Kim)

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Grace Workshop — Hotel Screw-up
by Andrew P. Black 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

It turns out that I have booked the Grace Workshop at the WRONG Sheraton Hotel. It is not at the Sheraton downtown, where I'm staying, but at: Sheraton San Jose Hotel - Milpitas 1801 Barber Lane, Milpitas, CA 95035, United States Kim Bruce will wait in the hotel lobby until around 9:45 and be available to drive people to the Milpitas Hotel. Call him at 909-801-4708, particularly if you need a ride. Andrew 503 803 1669 (Cell)

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Grace Workshop, Saturday 4th June
by Andrew P. Black 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

This is confirmation of the Grace Workshop on June 4th. It will be in the Sheraton Four Points in San Jose, in the MILPITAS room. Four Points by Sheraton San Jose 211 S First Street San Jose, CA 95113 United States of America Phone: 1 (408) 282-8800 The workshop will include lunch, which will be $17 plus tip, and which I'm going to ask you to pay me for. This is part of the deal in getting the hotel room. (If you wish, or it's easier for your expenses, you can pay me a workshop fee of $50, for which I'll give yo a receipt. This will help cover the cost of the room.) We have the room from 09:00; we wll start at 09:30 and finish around 17:00. Andrew Black

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Grace Workshop
by Andrew P. Black 23 May '11

23 May '11

Folks, There is enough interest in the Grace Workshop to get a conference room. I have a reasonable quote for this from the Four Points by Sheraton in San Jose, which is also the hotel at which I'll be staying on from Saturday night onwards. However, I have not confirmed the room, because it is still too early to expect an answer from the west coast. I'm currently stranded at Heathrow, because of a volcano, but hope to have this sorted before I leave. If you feel that you will be able to come, and have not yet email me our name, please do so when you get a chance. The hotel info is Four Points by Sheraton San Jose 211 S First Street San Jose, CA 95113 United States of America Phone: 1 (408) 282-8800 I booked my room through Expedia. Saturday night was under $100, IIRC, but Sunday and Monday were more expensive. Andrew

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Grace workshops in the Bay Area (June 4) and Lancaster (30 July)
by James Noble 18 May '11

18 May '11

Dear Grace Supporters We are 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. After the successful European workshops a few months ago, we are planning to hold a workshop in California in early June, and workshops with ECOOP (30 July) and SPLASH/OOPSLA (data tba) 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. There has been little visible project in the last couple of months, generally because we have been working on other (paid) projects. We are hoping to re-establish momentum in the design in conjunction with the workshops - focusing particularly on the type system and model system for Grace, and also reflecting on questions raised by some initial implementation efforts. cheers James (& Andrew & Kim)

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Grace spec 0.095 and Grace workshops
by James Noble 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hi all so a milestone of sorts: we've come up with our first specification: http://gracelang.org/documents/grace-spec0095.pdf This specification is very incomplete, however it should give the flavour of the language design so far, particularly the sequential and object-oriented features. Major missing features include types, encapsulation, modules, and a formal grammar. We'd welcome comments - either on the blog, or back via email, or at the workshops on Sunday (Darmstadt) or Monday (London). If you've let us know you're coming, we should have emailed you the details - if you don't get that email (or want to come anyway) just drop us a line. let us know what you think, and looking forwards to catching up with some of you next week. cheers Andrew, Kim, James

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Date correction for Darmstadt workshop: Sunday 27th Feb
by James Noble 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Dear Grace Supporters Due to my inability to read emails or calendars, I advertised the wrong date for the Darmstadt workshop: This actually needs to happen on Sunday 27th February (rather than Saturday). The London workshop will remain on Monday 28th February, Imperial College, London If you'd like to come to one of these workshops, and haven't already let us know, please email James, kjx(a)ecs,vuw.ac.nz. If you think you know other people who may be interested and able to contribute Grace at this early stage, please let them know, or point them at the blog - http://gracelang.org Working towards these workshops, we hope to publish a few more blog posts with language design content, and then a draft 0.1 specification within the next month. cheers James

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Confirming Grace workshops Europe & UK – late February
by James Noble 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Dear Grace Supporters we can confirm the first two workshops will be held in Europe & the UK in late February: • Saturday 26th February, TU Darmstad • Monday 28th February, Imperial College, London, If you'd like to come to one of these workshops, and haven't already let us know, please email James, kjx(a)ecs,vuw.ac.nz. If you think you know other people who may be interested and able to contribute Grace at this early stage, please let them know, or point them at the blog - http://gracelang.org cheers Kim, Andrew & James

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Grace workshops in Europe & UK Feb 2011; Grace blog back up;
by James Noble 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

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

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