Okay here comes some notes I’ve compiled:
VOSS for Pharo http://voss.logicarts.com/ <http://voss.logicarts.com/> Implications: a completely object oriented database industry proven would have a legacy and a open sourced release empowering Pharo users and startups to stay object oriented even when persisting data. VOSS has dual license commercial and GPLv3, John, VOSS author already offered himself to mentor porters. https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnclapperton <https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnclapperton> SQLServer client for Pharo Implications: some applications that have this dependency needs to extend and modernize features are challenged by this dependency that Pharo cannot use in a production ready state. SQL Alchemy for Pharo Implications: Big-data is a growing market that is easy to mine with a tool like Python’s SQL Alchemy. A Pharo version of such powerful tool would open this market opportunity for people wanting to offer Pharo-based solutions in this segment. Smalltalk’s syntax and tooling superiority could provide a significant push forward in this technology competitiveness because they might empower Pharo users to deliver solutions faster. http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/> Remote Environments for Pharo Implications: being able to inspect, browse and debug reliably a server Pharo image from a client Pharo image would spark countless possibilities. Some of them: server maintenance; hot debug on GUI-less servers in production; live develop or debug remotely mobile devices that doesn’t have a server. Hot changes in Pharo powered drones and robots. Pharo on mobile Implications: Is not that mobile is a growing market, is more like mobile is going supernova: http://a16z.com/2014/10/28/mobile-is-eating-the-world/ <http://a16z.com/2014/10/28/mobile-is-eating-the-world/> The power of Pharo and its libraries on mobile devices is currently perhaps one of its biggest opportunities. Deep learning for Pharo Implications: Robotics, drones and the internet of things will gather data from sensors that will need interpretation and modelling. All sorts of AI will use deep learning techniques and Pharo would be a great orchestrator of that modelling. http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-deep-learning-library-at-the-current-stage-for-working-on-large-data <http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-deep-learning-library-at-the-current-stage-for-working-on-large-data> Pharo Hadoop client Implications: Apache Hadoop can scale from single server to thousands of servers. The explosion of sensors, drones and mobile devices and printed devices with sensors are going to generate incredible amounts of data to process and model. Hadoop is a good fit for that and Pharo can empower faster modelling and orchestration of what to do with all that information stored in this widely adopted Hadoop technology. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy <http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy> Cross platform Native Widgets for Pharo Implications: The web is fantastic but at the same time there is a big pressure to create great native applications due to the improved User Experience that the native widgets can provide. Making Pharo to create them via things like wxWidgets (https://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screenshots/ <https://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screenshots/>) would instantly create opportunities to develop fast applications with a great UX. Protips site for Pharo Implications: I might spark the beginning of a mentoring ecosystem. StackOverflow is great but at the same time for a niche like Smalltalk it might not be enough to show the problem-solving potential of the platform. A site dedicated to share pro tips centered on Pharo would slowly a steady show the platform’s value. The site has to be social friendly. Each tip should have an author that can set there StackOverflow, LinkedIn, facebook, twitter or any social profile she wants. Requires nice branding and UX/UI design. Optional variation of the same idea: make it for any Smalltalk dialect instead of only Pharo. REPL IDE for Pharo Implications: Smalltalkers are used to very powerful IDEs. What if we have to put Pharo in a really underpowered or monitorless device? Having a powerful REPL IDE that can evaluate expressions, inspect and debug, would empower users to still do things in mini-devices during the incoming tide wave of internet-of-things. A GUI builder for Pharo Implications: If whatever you are doing you cannot make it visual easily, people cannot perceive it easily. Due to evolutionary reasons, our brain has unfair bias towards visual processing. Lets make something that allows Pharo to create visual things easier. Something like PARTS or Dolphin Smalltalk GUI builder would be huge. best! o/ > On Feb 11, 2015, at 12:14 PM, Martin Bähr <mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> > wrote: > > Excerpts from Stephan Eggermont's message of 2015-02-11 15:05:14 +0100: >> Sebastian wrote: >>> Can I brainstorm a wishlist? I could get wild on it :D >> >> Sure, as long as it is projects that you would be willing to mentor, >> and sized like they could fit. > > well, someone else could be willing to mentor then, so i don't think it hurts > to get wild on ideas, as long as accepted ideas come with a mentor. > > greetings, martin. > > -- > eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life > -- > chief engineer eKita.co > pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org > secretary beijinglug.org > mentor fossasia.org > foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com > unix sysadmin > Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/ >
