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ESUG Video upload continuing...
by Marcus Denker Nov. 28, 2011

Nov. 28, 2011

Hi, We are slowly, but steadily uploading videos to Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/esugboard There are now 50 videos already. The idea is to upload all videos we have from 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. In addition, the "Deep into Smalltalk" tutorials. If you want to be notified about single uploads, there are multiple possibilities: - subscribe to Youtube, turn on email notification. This way you get title, screnshot and the Abstract via mail of every video uploaded. - subscribe to http://twitter.com/#!/esugsmalltalk Youtube sends a tweet automatically for every upload. (Please retweet the ones you like!) Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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RDF and SPARQL
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

Hi guys a friend of mine would like to introduce Smalltalk in some projects (mainly java) using RDF and SPARQL Do you know any pointers to way to deal with them? I found http://www.squeaksource.com/@1ZsMX078wGCcKrps/Osgq-Nr7 Stef

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Pharo Consortium is moving forward.
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

Hi guys Since INRIA accepted to pay one engineer around the pharo consortium we will hire Esteban Lorenzano for a year. We are excited by that! I should do a lot of paper work but this is really cool. For the consortium we are working on it :) - Inria law oriented people are designing a "CAML" like consortium text. http://caml.inria.fr/consortium/ but simpler :). For pharo there will be no specific license just plain MIT. - Marcus is setting up a mailing-list and we will make public the names of the companies that are participating (if they agree). Note that several companies developing in VisualAge (Instantiations, HRWorks..) or Gemstone mentioned their intentions to join the consortium and we welcome them. - We will discuss the prices and modality but the goal is that any individual can be a consortium member and that we can pay one or two engineers to support Pharo development and bring more people into Smalltalk. Pharo Board

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Fwd: [Smalltalks 2011] --- Tu conferencia / your conference
by Mariano Martinez Peck Oct. 26, 2011

Oct. 26, 2011

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fundacion FAST <fast(a)smalltalk.comcastbiz.net> Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:13 AM Subject: [Smalltalks 2011] --- Tu conferencia / your conference To: marianopeck(a)gmail.com ==================== ENGLISH Did you know that the Smalltalks Conference will be held again this year? ( http://www.fast.org.ar/**smalltalks2011<http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2011> ) Maybe you’re wondering why you should care about a conference that deals with a language you most certainly don’t use for your job, and of whose existence you may not even be aware. But if you take 5' to read this I can tell you that you won’t regret it and that after that you will probably be eager to come to the conference :-) To begin with, this conference isn’t only about a programming language, it’s about a technology and a development culture which still has a wide influence on our profession. For example, last year Gilad Bracha came to the conference. Who is Gilad Bracha? Maybe the name rings a bell... well, that’s because he’s one of the people behind Dart, Google’s new language ( http://www.dartlang.org/) And what does that have to do with Smalltalk? Precisely: Gilad Bracha was one of the creators of Strongtalk ( http://www.strongtalk.org/) the fastest Samlltalk at that time, which used adaptive compilation, Polimorphic Inline Caching (PIC), optional variable typing, etc. - all of which are being implemented now in Dart. This year one of his closest collaborators will visit us, Vassili Bykov, who implemented the UI of Newspeak, the latest language he has been working on. But Smalltalk has to do not only with what’s happening with Dart, but with Ruby as well... Have you heard about MagLev? (http://ruby.gemstone.com/) It’s Ruby’s server for transactional and automatically persistent objects. Guess where that comes from... MagLev is the implementation of Ruby running on GemStone/S, a Transactional and Persistent object server for Smalltalk that is more than 25 years old and that has been bought by VMWare because of its great potential as a transactional memory manager for Java. If you didn’t know, read here: http://www.springsource.com/** products/data-management/**gemfire65<http://www.springsource.com/products/data-management/gemfire65> And where does the conference come in here? Martin McClure himself, responsible for MagLev, and GemStone architect Norman Green are coming! The guy in the know! Do you have any doubts about object bases? Now you know where the answers are. But maybe you’re not interested in any if this... perhaps the way programming languages work or how they are implemented is not your scene, you just make web applications and only want the infrastructure to scale, to be quick at persisting information etc. In that case we also have a place for you. Have you heard of GLASS? (http://seaside.gemstone.com/) It’s the implementation of Seaside, a dynamic framework based on continuations for web applications using GemStone! (http://www.seaside.st/) That’s to say, you develop a web application just like a desktop application, and you get transactionality and persistence at the object level, for free... and what’s better, without relational databases!!! Yes!!!! No more hibernating, no more SQL, no more tables, only objects! It may sound crazy, you may think it doesn’t make sanse... my advice is, don’t draw any conclusions until you come and hear Dale Heinrichs, who is in charge of this product and who will tell us all the details and explain how it is impacting web developments. Not convinced yet? OK, let me try just a bit more... Do you know Alan Kay? Turing award, “father of the personal computer”, creator of Smalltalk? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Alan_Kay<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay>) No, he’s not coming - yet. But Ian Piumarta and Kim Rose are, two of his closest collaborators in the projects he’s currently working on at his foundation dedicated to minimal programming languages such as OMeta and learning environments like SqueakLand (http://www.vpri.org/index.**html<http://www.vpri.org/index.html>). Are you interested in the use of computers for teaching? You can ask Kim. Would you like to know how a good VM is implemented? Ian will be right there to tell you. If you’re still reading and haven’t scrolled down to the bottom of the page it means I haven’t convinced you yet... hmmm, let’s see what you say about this: MOOSE (http://www.moosetechnology.**org<http://www.moosetechnology.org>), a platform for analyzing your programs - no matter if they are written in Java, C++, C# or Smalltalk, you can visualize your system’s design, not by using those little UML diagrams but by means of graphics specially designed to let you spot at a glance some bugs that may have crept in. Its developer, Tudor Girba, will be there to explain how it works, how it was developed and what you can do with it, because it’s free! Maybe you’re already tired of reading. I don’t blame, but don’t you blame me either! It’s a great conference! You just can’t miss it! Because this is not all... if you want to find out more about the main Smalltalk development environments, both open source and commercial, you will have the chance to talk to Markus Denker from Pharo (http://www.pharo-project.org/**home<http://www.pharo-project.org/home>) and John O’Keefe, architect of VASmalltalk (http://www.instantiations.**com/<http://www.instantiations.com/> ). A little too much stuff that is industry-oriented? And what about research, do they keep researching on Smalltalk? Well, let me tell you that this will be the second year the conference has a section devoted entirely to research, with an enviable review committee and publication in journals. This way, if you’re doing research on objects and need to present your work at a widely recognized conference, Smalltalks is your place. And I wouldn’t like to forget the university... Smalltalk is still the language used to for teaching objects at almost every university, instead of a merely commercial language. But I haven’t told you yet about the most important part of this, besides all these people that will be visiting us and with whom we can share our experiences: The Argentine Smalltalk community, one of the most important worldwide concerning this technology. This community has been putting their best efforts during the last five years to organize these conferences, and the last three years some of its members have won the 1st and the 3rd place at the ESUG Technology Award, an international award for the best developments in Smalltalk! And the best part of it is that the winners are from different universities - the UBA, the UAI and the UTN! The community does not stop there. Did you know that there is an Argentine Smalltalk? A Smalltalk developed by an Argentinian and which is being used all over the world? It’s called CUIS and it was developed by Juan Vuletich ( http://www.jvuletich.org/**Cuis/Index.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html>), who is also working on the Morphic 3.0 project, and worked together with Alan Kay developing Squeak. Or did you know that the most widely used layer open source for communicating with relational databases from Pharo or Squeak was developed by an Argentinian too? Or that Fuel, the open source object serialization framework, was also created by an Argentinian? Are you familiar with these names - Mariano Martinez Peck, Guillermo Polito, Martín Dias, Esteban Lorenzano, and others? They are also part of our community and a constant reminder of the excellent technical quality we have in our country. Another Argentinian is the architect of the fastest Smalltalk VM in existence, that of VisualWorks (http://www.cincomsmalltalk.** com/main/products/visualworks/<http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/visualworks/> **), and you can ask him how he was able to speed up the GC about 70% during the last year, and you will have the chance to listen to another Argentinian who has been a Smalltalker for more than 20 years... Can you imagine what your productivity would be if you had been working for 20+ years on the same language? On a language that keeps being productive to our profession? These people are part of this great community and will also be at this wonderful meeting... which is important not only for the people who are coming, but also for those that are already here! I hope I’ve been able to convince you. I hope you’ve realized that this is not a conference about a programming language, but about a community of developers who want to share with you all they know, and also learn from you. If you want to help this community to keep growing, if you want this to be not just a conference of developers but also for developers, sign up here: http://www.fast.org.ar/**smalltalks2011<http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2011> It’s free, and I can grant you that you won’t regret it. You can see the list of talks at: http://www.fast.org.ar/**smalltalks2011/talks<http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2011/talks> This year it takes place on November 3-5, at the University of Quilmes. And it won’t be restricted to the world of objects: this year we will also have a talk on objects by Fidel (Pablo E. Martínez López), one of the leading Argentinians in the field of Functional Programming, a community that shares the conviction that we are all, after all, programmers! See the response it is already getting: http://vimeo.com/30529851 We’ll be waiting for you! FAST http://www.fast.org.ar ==================== SPANISH ¿Te enteraste que este año se hace nuevamente el congreso Smalltalks? ( http://www.fast.org.ar/**smalltalks2011<http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2011> ) Por ahí te estás preguntando qué puede tener de interesante un congreso sobre un lenguaje que seguro no usas para trabajar y que por ahí no conoces, pero si tenés 5 minutos, lee este mail, te puedo asegurar que no te vas a arrepentir y seguramente querrás venir al congreso :-) Para empezar, este congreso no es únicamente sobre un lenguaje de programación sino sobre una tecnología y cultura de desarrollo que aún sigue influenciando fuertemente nuestra profesión. Por ejemplo, el año pasado vino a esta conferencia Gilad Bracha. ¿Quién es Gilad Bracha?, por ahí te suena el nombre... bueno, te suena porque es uno de los que está detrás de desarrollo de Dart, el nuevo lenguaje de Google (http://www.dartlang.org/) ¿Y qué tiene que ver Smalltalk? Justamente Gilad Bracha fue uno de los desarrolladores de Strongtalk (http://www.strongtalk.org/) el Smalltalk más rápido en su época, que utiliza compilación adaptiva, Polimorphic Inline Caching (PIC), tipado de variables opcional, etc. Todas soluciones que ahora se están implementando en Dart. Este año nos visita uno de sus más íntimos colaboradores, Vassili Bykov, implementador del UI de Newspeak, el último lenguaje en el que estaba trabajando. Pero no solo Smalltalk tiene algo que ver en lo que está sucediendo con Dart, sino también en Ruby... ¿escuchaste hablar de MagLev? ( http://ruby.gemstone.com/) Es el servidor de objetos transaccionales y automáticamente persistibles para Ruby, ¿adiviná de dónde viene? MagLev es la implementación de Ruby corriendo sobre GemStone/S, un servidor de objetos transaccionales y persistibles para Smalltalk que tiene más de 25 años y que ahora VMWare compró por su gran potencial y solución como administrador de memoria transaccional para Java, si no lo sabías mirá http://www.springsource.com/**products/data-management/**gemfire65<http://www.springsource.com/products/data-management/gemfire65>¿Qué tiene que ver con el congreso? que justamente viene al mismo Martin McClure, responsable de MagLev y Norman Green, arquitecto de GemStone! o sea, el que tiene la papa!! ¿Tenés dudas sobre las bases de objetos? ya sabés donde podés obtener las respuestas. Pero por ahí a vos no te interesa nada de esto... por ahí cómo funcionan los lenguajes de programación o cómo están implementados no es lo tuyo, vos haces aplicaciones web y solo necesitás que la infraestructura escale, persista información rápido, etc. Si ese es tu interés, tenemos un lugarcito para vos también. ¿Escuchaste hablar de GLASS? (http://seaside.gemstone.com/) Es la implementación de Seaside, un framework dinámico basado en continuations para aplicaciones web usando GemStone! (http://www.seaside.st/) O sea, desarrollas una aplicación web como si fuese una aplicación desktop y tenés gratis la transaccionabilidad y persistencia a nivel objetos... y lo que es mejor, sin base de datos relacionales!!! Si!!!!, no más hibernate, no más SQL, no más tablas, solo objetos!.... Por ahí te parece una locura, por ahí te parece que no tiene sentido... te aconsejo que no saques ninguna conclusión y no dejes de venir a escuchar a Dale Heinrichs, el encargado de este producto quien nos contará todos los detalles del mismo y cómo influye en los desarrollos web. ¿Aún no te convencí? ok... dejame intentar un poquito más... ¿Conoces a Alan Kay? ¿Turing award, "padre de la computadora personal", creador de Smalltalk? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Alan_Kay<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay>) No, no, no viene él, todavía :-),pero vienen Ian Piumarta y Kim Rose, dos de los más íntimos colaboradores de Alan Kay en los proyectos que están llevando adelante en su fundación sobre lenguajes de programación mínimos como OMeta y ambientes de enseñanza como SqueakLand. ( http://www.vpri.org/index.**html <http://www.vpri.org/index.html>). ¿Te interesa saber cómo usar la computadora para enseñar? Le vas a poder preguntar a Kim. Te interesa saber cómo implementar una buena VM, lo vas a tener a Ian cerquita para conversar. Si aún estás leyendo y no fuiste al final de la página significa que aún no te convencí... hmmm, a ver qué te parece esto: MOOSE ( http://www.moosetechnology.**org <http://www.moosetechnology.org>), una plataforma para hacer análisis de tus programas, no importa si están escritos en Java, C++, C# o Smalltalk, te permite ver visualmente el diseño de tu sistema no usando esos diagramitas simples de UML sino por medio de gráficos especialmente preparados para reconocer rápidamente algunos errorcitos que por ahí tiene tu sistema :-). Tudor Girba, desarrollador de esta plataforma vendrá a comentarnos cómo funciona, cómo está desarrollada y qué podés hacer con ella puesto que además es gratis! Por ahí ya estás aburrido de leer tanto, no te culpo y tampoco me culpes a mi! es un congreso excelente! no te lo podés perder!, puesto que la cosa no termina acá... si te interesa saber sobre los principales ambientes de desarrollo en Smalltalk tanto opensource como comerciales, tendrás la oportunidad de conversar con Markus Denker de Pharo ( http://www.pharo-project.org/**home)y<http://www.pharo-project.org/home%29y>John O'Keefe, arquitecto de VASmalltalk ( http://www.instantiations.**com/ <http://www.instantiations.com/>) ¿Muchos temas relacionados con la industria no? ¿y qué hay acerca de investigación, aún se investiga algo en con Smalltalk? Te comento que este es el segundo año consecutivo que el congreso tiene una sección completamente dedicada a la investigación, con un comité evaluador envidiable y con publicaciones en journals. Por lo tanto, si te interesa hacer investigación con objetos y necesitas que tus publicaciones sean en congresos reconocidos, te comento que Smalltalks es uno de ellos. Y no me quiero olvidar de la docencia universitaria... Smalltalk sigue siendo el lenguaje utilizado para enseñar objetos en casi todas las universidades y no para enseñar meramente un lenguaje de programación comercial. Y a pesar de todo esto, de toda esta gente que nos va a visitar y con quienes podremos compartir su experiencia y la nuestra, falta lo más importante: La comunidad argentina de Smalltalk, una de las principales comunidades en el mundo de esta tecnología. Es esta comunidad que hace 5 años está organizando este congreso a todo pulmón y hace 3 años viene ganando de manera consecutiva el primer y tercer puesto del "Esug Technology Award", premio a los mejores desarrollos hechos en Smalltalk a nivel mundial! y lo más interesante es que los ganadores son de distintas universidad de nuestro país como la UBA, la UAI y la UTN! Y la comunidad no se limita a eso... ¿sabés que hay un Smalltalk argentino? ¿un Smalltalk desarrollado por un argentino y utilizado a nivel mundial? se llama Cuis y su desarrollador Juan Vuletich (http://www.jvuletich.org/** Cuis/Index.html <http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html>), quien además está llevando adelante el desarrollo de Morphic 3.0 y trabajó junto a Alan Kay desarrollando Squeak. ¿O sabías que el layer open source para comunicarse con base de datos relacionales desde Pharo o Squeak más usado también fue desarrollado por argentinos? o que el framework de serialización de objetos opensource Fuel también fue desarrollado por un argentino? Te suenan Mariano Martinez Peck, Guillermo Polito, Martín Dias, Esteban Lorenzano entre otros?, ellos son parte de nuestra comunidad y nos recuerdan constantemente la muy buena capacidad técnica que tenemos en nuestro país. También es argentino el arquitecto de la VM de Smalltalk más rápida que hay, la de VisualWorks (http://www.cincomsmalltalk.** com/main/products/visualworks/<http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/visualworks/> **) y le podés preguntar cómo hizo para acelerar hasta cerca de un 70% el GC en el último año, y vas a poder escuchar una charla de un argentino que es smalltalkero hace más de 20 años... ¿te imaginás cómo sería tu productividad si estuvieras trabajando hace más de 20 años en el mismo lenguaje? ¿un lenguaje que además sigue dando mucho a nuestra profesión?... Esta gente es parte de esta gran comunidad y también participarán de este maravilloso evento.... este congreso no es solo importante por la gente que viene sino por la gente que ya está! Espero haberte convencido, espero que te hayas dado cuenta que este congreso no es acerca de un lenguaje de programación sino de una comunidad de desarrolladores que quiere compartir con vos lo que conoce y también aprender de vos. Si querés ayudar a que esta comunidad siga creciendo, si querés ayudar a que este congreso siga siendo un congreso de desarrolladores y para desarrolladores, anotate acá: http://www.fast.org.ar/**smalltalks2011<http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2011>Es gratis y te puedo asegurar que no te vas a arrepentir. Podes ver las charlas que se darán en:http://www.fast.org.ar/**smalltalks2011/talks<http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2011/talks> Este año se hace del 3 al 5 de Noviembre, en la Universidad de Quilmes. Y no está cerrada sólo al mundo de los objetos, este año Fidel (Pablo E. Martínez López), uno de los referentes argentinos de Programación Funcional, una comunidad que comparte que en definitiva somos todos desarrolladores, dará una charla sobre objetos! Mirá las reacciones que ya está provocando: http://vimeo.com/30529851 Te esperamos! FAST. http://www.fast.org.ar -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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Redline Smalltalk website improvement 'survey'
by Sean T Allen Oct. 22, 2011

Oct. 22, 2011

Hi everyone, I've started working on improving the experience people have when visiting the Redline Smalltalk website. At the moment, its basically a collection of links and not particularly inspiring. I've put together 3-4 questions about what you like/dislike in programming websites. If you have time, I'd love to get your input at https://gist.github.com/1306461. I know what speaks to me, but I'm an audience of 1. Looking for more input. Thanks, Sean

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Open PhD positions at Software Composition Group - University of Bern
by Oscar Nierstrasz Oct. 18, 2011

Oct. 18, 2011

Applications are invited for a PhD candidate at the Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland. The Software Composition Group carries out research in software analysis and programming language design and implementation, with a view to enabling software evolution. The SCG is led by Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz and is part of the Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (IAM) at the University of Berne. Details about ongoing research projects can be found online: http://scg.unibe.ch/research.html The candidate must have a MSc in Computer Science (equivalent to a Swiss MSc), should demonstrate strong programming skills, and have research interests in several of the following areas: software evolution program understanding software modeling model-driven engineering reverse engineering domain specific languages dynamic analysis integrated development environments programming language design virtual machine technology To apply, please send an email including your CV to Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz (oscar(a)iam.unibe.ch)

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On YouTube: ESUG 2008
by Marcus Denker Oct. 18, 2011

Oct. 18, 2011

ESUG 2007 Youtube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4A297B9019B3884D 25 talks, nearly 18 hours. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[ANN] Fuel release version 1.7
by Martin Dias Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

Hi folks! We have released the new version 1.7 of Fuel, a binary serialization framework for Pharo that provides extremely fast deserialization. More information on our home page<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel>. Again, I thank ESUG for sponsoring me through the SummerTalk<http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/SummerTalk/SummerTalk2011> program. You can download this version in Pharo 1.2.1 or 1.3 with: Gofer new squeaksource: 'Fuel'; package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; load. ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.7') load. The list of changes includes performance optimizations, design clean-ups, and new features. - The FLSerializer and FLMaterializer API has changed. They are no longer implementing the algorithms but are a kind of Façade. - Developer guides with examples: Getting Started<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Version1.7/StreamsGuide>and Customizing the graph<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Version1.7/Hooks> . - Serialization substitutions: "Store this object instead of me." - Global sends: "Restore me by sending this selector to this global" - Versioning the stream: We prefix the stream with a version number that should match when loading. - Performance optimizations on instances of: -- Word-like classes. (We thank a lot to Henrik Sperre Johansen for your help!) -- ByteString and Symbol. -- Date, Time, Duration and DateAndTime. -- Point and Rectangle. -- MethodDictionary. Now materialization is 2000x faster, thanks to its new rehash without become. - Huge clean-up in Tests package. Cheers! Martín Dias

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Call for Participation: STIC - Smalltalk Industry Conference
by Stéphane Ducasse Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

Smalltalk Solutions is now called STIC – Smalltalk Industry Conference. STIC is a forum where Smalltalk professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts can meet and share ideas and experiences. We are currently accepting proposals for talks involving Smalltalk technology and other areas of innovation in the software industry. We're looking forward to an excellent conference, and need your participation to maintain the high technical level of the conference! The conference will take place in Biloxi, Mississippi, March 19 – 21, 2012. Presentations will have 45 minutes time slots including discussion. They may be in the form of Technical Presentations Experience Reports Technology Demonstrations Panel Discussions Workshops ... Proposals should be submitted by email to STS_Speakers(a)stic.st and should include the following information: Name Contact Information Type of Presentation Title of Presentation Brief Abstract Short Biography of the Presenter(s) Any constraints on date/time Any other information of importance in evaluating the proposal If you cannot discuss the internal application you are working on because of corporate restrictions, perhaps you can discuss the application's component usage or development process. We will also be reserving time for short presentations, of the form of Lightning Talks and (very) short technology demonstrations, but these will be available for sign-up at the conference rather than as advance proposals. Submissions should be received by December 15, 2011. Note that submissions with incomplete information may be rejected - particularly if bio or abstract information is missing. Presenters will qualify for a significantly discounted registration. This year that will be $200 US, or $160 US for STIC members. For announcements of the conference see www.stic.st and http://www.smalltalksolutions.com/. Georg Heeg STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712 _______________________________________________ scona-list mailing list scona-list(a)scona.us http://scona.us/mailman/listinfo/scona-list

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Call for Participation: STIC - Smalltalk Industry Conference
by Georg Heeg Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

Smalltalk Solutions is now called STIC - Smalltalk Industry Conference. STIC is a forum where Smalltalk professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts can meet and share ideas and experiences. We are currently accepting proposals for talks involving Smalltalk technology and other areas of innovation in the software industry. We're looking forward to an excellent conference, and need your participation to maintain the high technical level of the conference! The conference will take place in Biloxi, Mississippi, March 19 - 21, 2012. Presentations will have 45 minutes time slots including discussion. They may be in the form of * Technical Presentations * Experience Reports * Technology Demonstrations * Panel Discussions * Workshops * ... Proposals should be submitted by email to <mailto:STS_Speakers@stic.st> STS_Speakers(a)stic.st and should include the following information: * Name * Contact Information * Type of Presentation * Title of Presentation * Brief Abstract * Short Biography of the Presenter(s) * Any constraints on date/time * Any other information of importance in evaluating the proposal If you cannot discuss the internal application you are working on because of corporate restrictions, perhaps you can discuss the application's component usage or development process. We will also be reserving time for short presentations, of the form of Lightning Talks and (very) short technology demonstrations, but these will be available for sign-up at the conference rather than as advance proposals. Submissions should be received by December 15, 2011. Note that submissions with incomplete information may be rejected - particularly if bio or abstract information is missing. Presenters will qualify for a significantly discounted registration. This year that will be $200 US, or $160 US for STIC members. For announcements of the conference see www.stic.st and http://www.smalltalksolutions.com/. Georg Heeg STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

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