A platform for social development with Smalltalk. You can join this community sharing your expertice, experiences and wishes to make Smalltalk a comfortable environment to execute your objects everywhere. U8 is an open and global service capable to evolve with your contributions.
In every moment, any developer can start with a minimal S8 image customized for U8 platform. Any new development will be derived from an image, which eventually, could be the minimal S8 image for U8 or another developer's image. A new derived image is a fork (MIT License) allowing to share and learn "with" other people.
U8 is a platform to develop, experiment and showing. Allowing to other people see what exciting things it can be done with Smalltalk, can help to create new ideas and visions on people.
U8 is a platform that allows to work with S8. Other people using S8 can see your works and ideas and asking you for new developments or new features enhancement to any of your previous works.
Don't you have enough time or skill to develop a new feature? You can pay a developer for a new feature. In the same way, you can charge (with brownies) for develop new features other people wish. Interested people can donate brownies to promote your work. Later, you can exchange your brownies to real money.
U8 allows you to join with experts in Object Technology field. Asking, sharing and learning from people having many years' experience in Smalltalk with outstanding trajectories.
Share experiences and wishes with other people walking their own path too. Experiment to build, support and self-support through social development with Smalltalk.
Smalltalk is great! get involved pushing up again the Smalltalk balloon!!
In order to interact with other people, its required to be registered. As registered user, you will be allowed to publish contributions, buy and receive brownies, as well as make questions to the authors, join development groups and help to enhance the platform. As a developer, eventually you will need to define a development as "ready to be published". You can achieve this doing a "final" save image. Finished developments will be published prior confrontation to [U8] Terms of Use; this final revision process will be accomplished by Smalltalking Association.