Community

Squeak has an active and enthusiastic user community. Participants include teachers working on curriculum materials, enthusiasts, commercial and academic users, and a number of "quantum mechanics" interested in newer and better approaches to the ultimate goal of making high-quality computation simple and efficient.

If you want to join this vibrant community a good place to start is to read the Community How-To.

We have a foundation that provides a central funding and organizing hub.

Mailing lists

Three lists are dedicated to squeak in general. For more information, or for subproject mailing lists, see the wiki page.

Announcements is the first list everyone interested in Squeak should subscribe to, even if you subscribe to not other list. This list has a very low traffic level but will keep you up to date on events and new releases.
Squeak Dev is the main list dealing with development of and in Squeak.
Beginners is a friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak.

Swiki

The Squeak community maintains a swiki that tracks various projects and documentation efforts:

IRC

Have a question that you need answered quickly? Would you like to meet with other squeakers around the world? A great place to participate in longer-term discussions is the IRC channel on the "#squeak" channel at freenode.net. Stop by and say "Hi!"

Community sites

There are several websites supporting the Squeak community today in various ways, here are some:

SqueakPeople is an "advogato.org" for Squeakers and has articles, diaries and an interesting trust metric system.
PlanetSqueak is an RSS aggregator. Good place to get a flood of Squeaky things. This includes the latest blog entries from devlopers and others who have an interest in Squeak.
Squeak at frappr is a place track the Squeak users around the world.

Links to Smalltalk User Groups and companies etc:

esug European Smalltalk User Group
Smalltalk links

Developer Corner

Squeak is the foundation of a lot of advanced projects

Seaside is a powerful framework for developing sophisticated dynamic web applications.
Monticello is a packaging system for Squeak (similar to CVS and Store VisualWorks).
SqueakMap is a catalog of packages developed in Squeak and Squeak developers.
SqueakSource is a site that hosts a Monticello version-control repository and many projects in development for Squeak.

Bug Tracking

We currently use Mantis for issue tracking, both for Squeak itself and other Squeak projects.

Educator Corner

Etoy is a visual script-based multimedia authoring environment to learn science and math.
Squeakpolis is the website that include anything the teachers need using Squeak at their classrooms in Extremadura, Spain.
Croquet is a 3D peer-to-peer authoring environment.
Sophie is a project to develop an open-source authoring system for media rich electronic documents.

Supporting Companies and Institutions

Hitflip and Hitmeister
CdeGroot
netstyle.ch
Smallthought
Software Composition Group of the University of Berne
Language and Software Evolution Group of the University of Savoie, France.
Viewpoints Research which supported the start of Squeak itself.
IUT de Caen, Dªpartement Informatique, France.
Research in computer science at the Ecole des Mines de Douai, France.
Contact the Foundation for information on how your corporation can sponsor the development of Squeak.

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