[Cuis-dev] These strange days (and our community)

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Folks,

Coronavirus is hitting hard in many places. And places not hit hard yet 
are getting ready for it. This has been affecting daily life for 
everyone. Let's keep in mind that the top priorities are to take care of 
ourselves and others, following orders and advice from local authorities 
and the WHO. Many people are facing extreme hardships, including health 
care and emergency workers, people who got ill and their loved ones. 
Let's hope it turns out to the best for them, and let's help them when 
possible.

For the rest of us, for the majority of the world, we just need to be 
very careful.

Many people are not able to work at their job or attend to school. Some 
of us are lucky enough to be able to keep working from our homes, almost 
as usual. In any case, for a lot of us (I know, we are the most lucky 
ones), the biggest challenge is to fight our own fear, anguish and 
boredom. Let's spend good time with family and friends, talking, playing 
games, whatever we can do without leaving our homes. Let's try to get 
some exercise. This is great not only for the body, but also for the 
mind. My wife Lucía and my daughters Sofía and Diana have been dancing 
to some youtube videos. I must join them next time! Some TV is OK, but 
too much of it is not. Get enough rest. Take some time to be calm and 
quiet. Meditate. Spend time learning and practicing stuff you love. 
Maybe we can make the most of this time by focusing on programming projects.

So, use Cuis. Play with Cuis. Learn with Cuis. Learn about Cuis. Feel 
free to share your thoughts and feelings here. We are a community. Many 
of us have never meet in person, but we still share a lot. We are a 
bunch of friends, even if it might be a little different kind of friendship.

Let me tell how all this is going for me.

In Argentina, we are in a preventive quarantine. We still don't have 
many cases, but we (Argentina) want to flatten the exponential growth 
from the start. My kids are at home, as schools are closed. The school 
gave them a lot of stuff to "research", so this is becoming a kind of 
home schooling! Lucía and I are spending time helping them with that. 
Fortunately, we and our larger families are all healthy. We keep in 
touch. We are both also doing home office for work. So we are quite 
busy! Our home has a nice backyard and the weather is nice, so we are 
able to spend time outside.

I spend some time doing Cuis. I know I'm being quite slow in answering 
email and several of you are waiting an answer on some particular topic. 
I apologize for this, and I promise I'll eventually get to each one of 
them. I have also been working a few hours over several weeks on 
VectorGraphics and TrueType. I have some updates to push, hopefully 
today, and will tell in another email.

Thank you all for being around, helping Cuis grow, recoding videos and 
spreading the word, or simply sharing this space. Everybody, please feel 
free to share your feelings and thoughts.

Cheers,

-- 
Juan Vuletich
www.cuis-smalltalk.org
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
https://github.com/jvuletich
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3
@JuanVuletich