<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>We need two things for that to work:</div><div>(1) Someone to do the work</div><div>(2) Money to pay them</div><div><br></div><div>(1) is more of a hurdle than might be expected. People who could rewrite the VM be 64 bit are very few and far between and we can't afford Lars Bak :)</div><div><br></div><div>If someone is willing and competent to do one of these tasks then a bounty could be good.</div><div><br></div><div>Russell</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 14 Jan 2014, at 10:32 am, David Harris <<a href="mailto:dpharris@telus.net">dpharris@telus.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; position: relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;"><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">What about using bounties?<br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">On 1/13/14, Chris Double <<a href="mailto:chris.double@double.co.nz" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;">chris.double@double.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Russell Allen <<a href="mailto:mail@russell-allen.com" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;">mail@russell-allen.com</a>><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">>><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">>> My favourite comment from Reddit, which we should take to heart:<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">>><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">>> "Interesting, it looks like some variant of Smalltalk. Hopefully we'll see<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">>> more innovation in OOP."<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> It was interesting to see the number of people who hadn't heard of<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> Self and didn't know its place in language history!<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> It would be good to have a list of tasks that interested people could<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> attack. Maybe this could be done in github issue's with a special tag<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> and syndicated to the website? Some big ticket items might be:<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> 1) An ARM backend<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> 2) 64-bit support<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> 3) Factor out screen sharing to not rely on X11<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> 4) Linux font support<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> 5) Windows support<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> --<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;">http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz</a><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> ------------------------------------<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> Yahoo Groups Links<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"></p></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 0px;"></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>