Next wednesday, October 14th, there will be a Smalltalk hackaton in Barcelona. It is a joint event with Citilab Breakout and it will take place at WTC Almeda Park in Cornella (here) from 9am to 6pm.

After the summer break, the Smalltalk workgroup in Barcelona decided to invest the spare time of its members (almost none of them is paid to program in Smalltalk) building a Pharo API for a new kind of database: FluidDB. After that, our plans include to develop a Smalltalk application using this new API to make clear the advantages of using FluidDB. The main purpose of this, our first, hackaton will be to push forward this project.

Here you can see a screenshoot of a simple GUI for our first preliminary FluidDB classes that, among other things, allow us to query the sandbox. The GUI was made by Raimon Grau, with Jose Garcia's FluidDB classes and Gerard's -aka nullPointer- UIBuilder. We are a team!

Terry Jones (founder of FluidDB) made clear yesterday, in a private e-mail, his willingness to join us at the hackaton. That would be great, since grasping the full potential of FluidDB is far from trivial.

Anyway, if you are around and want to join us, just do it...