Hi everyone, I just saw the news (on Twitter) that JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) has joined the Pharo Consortium. Does anyone here know what JPL is doing with Pharo? If it's related to scientific/engineering applications, that would be a nice marketing argument in the scientific/engineering community. Konrad.
Hi Konrad, I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree to join the Consortium. I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get Pharo introduced & infused at JPL. I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be: * Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization, * Modeling and simulation, * Internal web servers, * Custom ground support & test systems, * Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications". I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using Pharo in their particular areas of expertise. I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & training, and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both engineers and managers -- to see the potential. Wish me luck! -Ted -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:27 PM tbrunz <wild.ideas@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Konrad,
I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree to join the Consortium.
I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.
I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:
* Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization, * Modeling and simulation, * Internal web servers, * Custom ground support & test systems, * Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".
I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.
I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & training, and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both engineers and managers -- to see the potential.
Wish me luck! -Ted
Good luck! And Well Done!!
-- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
Ted, Thanks for this advocacy and best of lucks. Cheers, Offray On 28/08/20 5:27 p. m., tbrunz wrote:
Hi Konrad,
I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree to join the Consortium.
I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.
I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:
* Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization, * Modeling and simulation, * Internal web servers, * Custom ground support & test systems, * Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".
I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.
I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & training, and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both engineers and managers -- to see the potential.
Wish me luck! -Ted
-- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
Thanks! And I want to give special thanks to Stef and to Alexandre Bergel for being generous with their time in helping me with my advocacy. It's just as you said, Offray: "We live in an attention economy" -- and the competition is *fierce*! (I think it's worse when you're dealing with educated professionals -- they work hard, they play hard, and there's little left over to "learn something new" sometimes. But I am not discouraged... I take the long view on this. Computers taught me patience. I'm using that now... ;^) -t -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
JPL has its own Slack server... Of course I started a channel: <http://forum.world.st/file/t372161/jpl-slack-pharo-channel.png> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
On 29 Aug 2020, at 01:46, tbrunz <wild.ideas@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks!
And I want to give special thanks to Stef and to Alexandre Bergel for being generous with their time in helping me with my advocacy.
It's just as you said, Offray: "We live in an attention economy" -- and the competition is *fierce*!
Yes this is what many smalltalking people forgot. Pharo is in competition against many large languages and we are not concerned with the little fight about other dead smalltalk compatibilities.
(I think it's worse when you're dealing with educated professionals -- they work hard, they play hard, and there's little left over to "learn something new" sometimes. But I am not discouraged... I take the long view on this. Computers taught me patience. I'm using that now... ;^)
-t
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On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 06:27, tbrunz <wild.ideas@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Konrad,
I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree to join the Consortium.
I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.
I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:
* Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization, * Modeling and simulation, * Internal web servers, * Custom ground support & test systems, * Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".
I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.
I'm doing what I can be promoting Pharo, providing introductions & training, and I'm now working on demonstrations that can catch the attention of both engineers and managers -- to see the potential.
Dear Ted, We share a lot of common interests with you and Konrad. I'm the main architect of PolyMath: https://github.com/PolyMathOrg/PolyMath for doing scientific computing with Pharo. I'm also involved in Kendrick, a domain-specific language for doing epidemiological modelling: https://github.com/UNU-Macau/kendrick and a multi-agent modelling platform called CORMAS: https://github.com/cormas/cormas Regards, -- Serge Stinckwic h https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich
Good luck, Ted, and congratulations! -C -- Craig Latta Black Page Digital Berkeley, California blackpagedigital.com https://caffeine.js.org
Hi Ted,
I'm the person at JPL who (somehow) got "The Powers That Be" here to agree to join the Consortium.
Congratulations! That must have been a significant effort.
I'm also the major champion of Pharo at JPL, and am leading an effort to get Pharo introduced & infused at JPL.
That's what I am most interested in. I am in biophysics research myself, where Pharo is best described as invisible and unheard of. So I wonder which techniques could work for introducing and infusing.
I see the initial "market" for Pharo here to be:
* Scientific & engineering data analysis & visualization, * Modeling and simulation, * Internal web servers, * Custom ground support & test systems, * Small-to-medium sized scripting to "support applications".
That looks like a lot of people to convince!
I'm sure more application areas will open up as I get people to start using Pharo in their particular areas of expertise.
Indeed, the hard part is getting started.
Wish me luck!
All you need! Konrad.
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Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas -
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