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

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Thank you Juan for your kind words!
As I mentioned in other email, I'm doing webinars to learn Smalltalk using
Cuis, but they are in Spanish...
Here is the link to the first one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blj7itWxk2Y
Next one will be this Friday, 19 to 20 hrs GMT-3

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:19 PM Leam Hall via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Juan, et al.
>
> I am an Apprentice Ruby coder, and a lot of Ruby documents praise
> Smalltalk. They are not very subtle about suggesting an awareness of
> Smalltalk would help one's Ruby skills. Thus I found Cuis. I bought two
> Smalltalk books, "Smalltalk-80" (Goldberg) and "Smalltak Objects, and
> Design" (Liu).
>
> Unfortunately, I am not able to mentally bridge the gap between the old
> books and the current Cuis. I have done a lot of text based coding, even my
> Ruby is written in Vim and run in a shell window. Part of the difficulty is
> personal, I'm trying to adjust to the GUI. Sadly, I'm still trying, the
> learning is slow for me.   :)
>
> I appreciate what you and the others are doing. As I have time and
> understanding, I will learn more. If there is a movement to unify the Cuis
> and Smalltalk documentation, it might help those of us who come to this
> without a Computer Science background.
>
> Thank you for Cuis.
>
> Leam
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:55 AM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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