[ANSI-Smalltalk] What's in a name?

[giorgio ferraris]

Hi, Everybody,

Bruce, ad my vote to your proposed name.  It says everything.

Ciao to all.

giorgio

On Feb 18, 2008 10:30 PM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have voted to organise ourselves and the discussion on how we do
> that has already started with Paulo's STEPs proposal (which I think
> looks pretty good!).
>
> While we may well work with the ANSI standardisation process in the
> future (and I hope we do) it is distinct from us, but who are we?
> Currently we carry the label the ANSI Smalltalk project, but that is
> clearly not the case since any ANSI work will be distinct.
>
> So, painful and bureaucratic though it sounds, I think we need a new name.
>
> If we adopt Paolo's process we could just be the Steps Project, but
> perhaps the explicit Smalltalk Standards Project may be better, or ...
>
> What do you think?
>
> All the best,
>    Bruce
>
> p.s. It seems that we are taking ages mucking around with admin
> without getting on with the problem at hand, i.e. defining Smalltalk
> standards.   My hope is that whatever we are starting will be a (very)
> long running project, so I am not too worried that we are taking our
> time getting the foundations right.  I am keen to get cracking, but I
> want to do so in a sustainable way.  There you go.
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