This week's community meeting

[Bates, Simon]

Hi everyone,

For this week's community meeting, we are going to continue with our series on Case Studies of User Creativity. On Wednesday we will have a look at Smalltalk and other work of Alan Kay and his collaborators.

I'd like to suggest that in advance of Wednesday's meeting, we read one of his papers from 1977, written with Adele Goldberg, called "Personal Dynamic Media". This paper presents their vision for personal computing and for portable computers called "Dynabooks".

I've found 2 versions of the article online: a version with an introduction that appeared in a 2003 collection called "The New Media Reader" and a scan of the original:

- http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-26-kay.pdf
- https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/1977/03/01646405.pdf

(The whole New Media Reader book is really good and I'll bring it in on Wednesday, if anyone is interested in taking a look at it.)

At the meeting I will show a running Smalltalk system and I think it would also be awesome to discuss the Personal Dynamic Media paper together.

Looking forward to the conversations on Wednesday.

Simon