I now officially belong to the core team of SmartEiffel (formerly known as SmallEiffel), the GNU Eiffel Compiler.
One of my tasks is to develop SCOOP, but I also participate in day-to-day fixes and improvements... Note that we even have a bugzilla database, known as SmartZilla.
About SCOOP, no announcement have been made in the last months, and none will be in the near future. There are a lot of things (both theoretical and practical) before having a functional SCOOP runtime.
In the meantime, I developped a new installer for SmartEiffel. We wanted it to be smart :o) and the old installer was getting, well, old...
On the professional front, since September I work at PSA Peugeot-Citroën (France); I'm helping them in coding some Java components, and I also work as object expert.
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