September 2010 - Esug-list

Re: [Esug-list] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by Bert Freudenberg

I for one am happy that there were enough books written about Smalltalk that we can have a competition. Thank you for organizing the contest, ESUG. Now let's spread the word and vote: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q2LKKDT In case this got lost in the unnecessary side discussion, it's open to Wednesday, Sept. 15 noon CEST. - Bert - (Squeak Oversight Board member, speaking for myself)

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by Stéphane Ducasse

oops! We did not listed japanese books only english ones (but this is ok since we removed the french ones too). On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > ok i push this announce to japanese Smalltalk mailing-list. > Regards, > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Stéphane Ducasse > <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: >> I forgot to mention that the deadline is until wednesday 15 at noon. >> On Sep 6, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> >>> Dear Smalltalkers >>> >>> this year ESUG would like to reward effort made in book publications. Since we want to push new books but that it takes time to write books we will >>> take into account a window of 5 years. So you are requested to vote for the best book of the last 5 years. >>> >>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q2LKKDT >>> >>> Stef on the behalf of the ESUG board. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list >>> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >>> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >> > > > > -- > Serge Stinckwich > UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam > Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk > http://doesnotunderstand.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] supporting the spanish translation of Pharo by example

by stephane ducasse

+1 Jordi no stress!!!! We should just keep the ball rolling. And apparently you are not the only one. :) Stef > take it easy !! We will reorganize the work soon ... No worries > > Gabi > > 2010/9/7 Jordi Delgado <jdelgado(a)lsi.upc.edu> > Hi, > > Shame on me, but guilty as charged... I had to translate chap. 13, I am still > half way and it is not even uploaded to the repository. > I have not been completely commited to the translation. Perhaps I may use > Smalltalk camp to finish this before doing anything else. > > Sorry, > > Bests, > > Jordi > > > > Hi guys > > > > I heard that the spanish translation of the pharo by example book is at 50%. :( > > So please contact Gabriela Arevalo <gabriela.b.arevalo(a)gmail.com> to help. > > I cannot believe that you will not get it done. > > > > Stef > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Esug-list mailing list > > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by stephane ducasse

+1 Thanks noury. This is fun to feel bashed for trying to move and get our community more exposure. Stef On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Noury Bouraqadi wrote: > Sorry Andreas. I don't see the conflict of interest. > You cleary missunderstood the point. > > ESUG is just an engine for moving the Smalltalk community forward. > The ESUG board will not decide which is the best book, this is why the vote is open to the community. > Nevertheless, ESUG board members likewise other Smalltalkers can submit their work. > > We spent time listing books about Smalltalk. And one of our conclusion is that the community is not very strong on this point, since we have only few authors (Andrès Valloud, Stéphane, ...). And we are lucky to have them. > > The goal of ESUG is to promote Smalltalk. > Showing that Smalltalk books are valuable and encouraging people to write is the point here. > > We want MORE SMALLTALK BOOKS! > This is the message that everybody should remember. > > Noury > http://car.mines-douai.fr/noury > ---- > -18th International Smalltalk Joint Conference, September 13 -17 2010 Barcelona, Spain. > http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010 > > -18ème Journées Francophones des Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA), 18-20 october 2010, Mahdia, Tunisia. > http://www.ltim.org/jfsma10/accueil.php > > -The SIMPAR 2010 International Workshop on Dynamic languages for RObotic and Sensors systems (DYROS), november 2010 - Darmstadt, Germany. > http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/wikka.php?wakka=DYROS10 > > -4th Argentinian Smalltalks Conference November 11th - 13th, 2010, Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina > http://www.fast.org.ar/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by stephane ducasse

May be you did not realized that I wrote more squeak books than pharo ones. So what is your problems? I do not have any and if you feel better because you have nice words against me then I'm at least useful for something. Stef On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Andreas Raab wrote: > Ah, a good old-fashioned "Stefane Ducasse is pissed" post. Hadn't had one in a while. You really need to *read* the Wikipedia article on conflict of interest before sending one of your hate mails. Conflicts of interest happen everywhere, to me, to you, to many people. The important part is to recognize them and to act accordingly. Here is the second paragraph from Wikipedia: > > "A conflict of interest can only exist if a person or testimony is entrusted with some impartiality; a modicum of trust is necessary to create it. The presence of a conflict of interest is independent from the execution of impropriety. Therefore, a conflict of interest can be discovered and voluntarily defused before any corruption occurs." > > It should be obvious that a person who is both organizer of a contest as well as participant is in a potential conflict of interest situation. If you recognize the conflict you can deal with it. It can be as simple as being explicit that you expect others to spread the invitation, for example by including "please redistribute this announcement as widely as possible in the Smalltalk community". > > Having said all that my original point still stands, namely that your invitation of the Pharo community specifically to vote is a clear expression of an unrecognized and unmitigated conflict of interest. You need to learn to recognize such situations and to act less emotionally. Conflicts of interests happen to all of us, they can be dealt with calmly and reasonably. And I expect the president of ESUG to be able to act in such a way. > > Cheers, > - Andreas > > On 9/7/2010 12:51 AM, stephane ducasse wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> for some more or less conceivable reason, this hasn't made it to the >>>>> Squeak list yet. >>>> >>>> like what? >>>> I'm curious to learn. >>> >>> Like "conflict of interest"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest) >>> >>> "A conflict of interest (COI) occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in the other." >>> >>> Given that you're both the author of half of the books as well as president of ESUG (the organizer) it's pretty clear that you're stuck in a conflict of interest situation. Inviting the Pharo community to participate and not others only shows how deep the conflict of interest goes - the president of ESUG shouldn't favor individual communities, should he? >> >> Thanks andreas for this welcome mail. >> of course that esug does not something is not the wish of everybody. >> And people will vote not us. And this is not my fault if I spent my nights trying to get better a smalltalk world. >> Everybody can write books: a book is a word + a word + a word a lot of time, even you can do it. >> Now yesterday I had a difficult day >> - five visitors (one chilean, one argentinian, noury, luc, mariano and a team of 9 people to synchronize). >> You see I even forgot to send the mail to the seaside mailing-list. >> >> Thanks again for such encouragement. >> >> Stef (talking small). >> >

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] supporting the spanish translation of Pharo by example

by Serge Stinckwich

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Jordi Delgado <jdelgado(a)lsi.upc.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > Shame on me, but guilty as charged... I had to translate chap. 13, I am still > half way and it is not even uploaded to the repository. > I have not been completely commited to the translation. Perhaps I may use > Smalltalk camp to finish this before doing anything else. Ok, we will sit together to be more motivate, because i need to finish PBE in french ;-) -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] supporting the spanish translation of Pharo by example

by Gabriela Arevalo

take it easy !! We will reorganize the work soon ... No worries Gabi 2010/9/7 Jordi Delgado <jdelgado(a)lsi.upc.edu> > Hi, > > Shame on me, but guilty as charged... I had to translate chap. 13, I am > still > half way and it is not even uploaded to the repository. > I have not been completely commited to the translation. Perhaps I may use > Smalltalk camp to finish this before doing anything else. > > Sorry, > > Bests, > > Jordi > > > > Hi guys > > > > I heard that the spanish translation of the pharo by example book is at > 50%. :( > > So please contact Gabriela Arevalo <gabriela.b.arevalo(a)gmail.com> to > help. > > I cannot believe that you will not get it done. > > > > Stef > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Esug-list mailing list > > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] supporting the spanish translation of Pharo by example

by Jordi Delgado

Hi, Shame on me, but guilty as charged... I had to translate chap. 13, I am still half way and it is not even uploaded to the repository. I have not been completely commited to the translation. Perhaps I may use Smalltalk camp to finish this before doing anything else. Sorry, Bests, Jordi > Hi guys > > I heard that the spanish translation of the pharo by example book is at 50%. :( > So please contact Gabriela Arevalo <gabriela.b.arevalo(a)gmail.com> to help. > I cannot believe that you will not get it done. > > Stef > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-users] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by Michael Haupt

Serge, On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Serge Stinckwich <serge.stinckwich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > At the moment, i'm only aware of the FLOSS manual infrastructure, > mainly used by OLPC (but not only). browsing the web page, I found http://en.flossmanuals.net/OpenTranslationTools/ - it looks like a good entry point for completely oblivious people like me. :-) It has a list of open-source translation systems ... Is there a comprehensive feature list for the FLOSS infrastructure somewhere? Something to make one accomodated with it, like a quick start how-to? (Couldn't find one. Probably blindness.) Best, Michael

Sept. 7, 2010

Re: [Esug-list] [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-users] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

by Serge Stinckwich

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Michael Haupt <mhaupt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Serge, > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Serge Stinckwich > <serge.stinckwich(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I think we need more translations also ! We have only Squeak by >> Example in english and french. The same for Pharo by Example. >> I was wondering that maybe this is difficult for people who don't have >> the energy or the skill to setup a repository for translation. >> Maybe we should use an infrastructure like the one used for FLOSS >> Manuals (http://en.flossmanuals.net/ ) in order to be able to launch >> new translations very easily. >> >> What is the community thinking about that ? > > more translations: yes please, and I'm willing to contribute, but > infrastructure is key. I don't have a clue about what is possible in > terms of infrastructures for multi-language documentation/book > projects, but if it provides good tracking capabilities (e.g., > alerting translators to languages B..Z when a substantial content-wise > (not just language polishing) change is done in the version of > language A), that would be worthwhile. Yes, so maybe first step is to investigate the different open-source alternatives and after that we deploy an infrastructure somewhere and asking some ESUG funds ;-) At the moment, i'm only aware of the FLOSS manual infrastructure, mainly used by OLPC (but not only). We could also used a Pier infrastructure like the one provided for http://book.seaside.st/book but there is no support for translations. -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/

Sept. 7, 2010