[Esug-list] Looking for Sponsors for C5 2008

[Serge Stinckwich]

Dear Smalltakers,

i'm currently working to organize The Sixth International Conference  
on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5) in  
2008. What is the C5 conference ? The C5 conference is mainly for  
researchers, technology developers, educators, and technology users  
who are concerned about developing and enabling human-oriented  
creation, connection, and collaboration processes. It happens that in  
the C5 program committee, one finds many people who come from the  
Smalltalk community with projects like Squeak (http:// 
www.squeak.org/), Croquet (http://www.opencroquet.org/) or OLPC (One  
Laptop for Child). Look at the program committee of the C5 2007  
edition (http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/organization.html) to  
find familiar names of Smalltalkers like : Alan Kay, Ian Piumarta or  
Andreas Raab. Last year for example, there were many sessions where  
applications of Squeak were presented. Look here to find some french  
reviews of C5 2007 sessions that deals explicitely with Squeak :  
http://doesnotunderstand.free.fr/?cat=59
or look at the english translations here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F% 
2Fdoesnotunderstand.free.fr%2F%3Fcat%3D59&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

Until now, the previous editions were held in Japan (http:// 
www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/) and United States (http:// 
www.db.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/c5-06/). I would like to organize the C5  
2008 edition for the first time in Europe and to be more precise in  
France, at Poitiers.

I'm looking for sponsors that would like to us organize such event in  
Europe. What could be the benefits for your company ? I think it's a  
great opportuny to attract more and more people to Squeak and to  
Smalltalk. You can contact me in private if you need more information.

Best regards,
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Université de Caen>CNRS UMR 6072>GREYC>MAD               OOESUGOO
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