February 2011 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

Call for Pharo Support **important**

by Stéphane Ducasse

Please distribute this message around Dear Pharoers We are pursuing an effort to bring Pharo to the next level: we will set up a consortium of pharo users and industrial partners. Our goal is to build a legal infrastructure that will be able to sustain the development of Pharo and improve its future. As an example, we would like to be able to collect funds (ways as to be determined - we foresee a membership model or moral license) to pay engineering tasks to be performed such as improving the virtual machine, network libraries, better JIT support. To make it short we would like to give a chance to our community to grow and structure itself so that Pharo can get stronger and that risk (truck factor) gets minimized. We are contacting you to know if your company/research group would be interested to support such effort. Showing such interest is strategically important for us and INRIA which could also support such effort. Attached is the letter of support that we will collect once signed and scanned ( stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr / faxed at: 00 33 (0)3 59 57 78 50) Thanks for your support The Pharo Board M. Denker, S. Ducasse, and A. Lienhard

Feb. 16, 2011

IWST @ ESUG 2011 call for papers

by Alain Plantec

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IWST @ ESUG 2011 International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies August 23th, 2011 Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/International-Workshop-on-Smalltalk-Te… CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE : June 17, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ESUG 2011 Smalltalk joint event IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: June 17, 2011 * Notification deadline: July 15, 2011 GOALS AND SCOPE We are proud to invite submisssions to the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which is held as part of the ESUG 2011 joint event at Edinburgh. The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. Participants are invited to submit short and not-so short research articles. We will not enforce any length restriction. However we expect papers of two kinds: * Short position papers describing emerging ideas. * Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. TOPICS We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: * Aspect-oriented programming, * Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, * Frameworks, * Interaction with other languages, * Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, * Tools, * Design patterns, * Experience reports PUBLICATION Pending ACM approval for Digital Library. Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm; this site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. PROGRAM CHAIRS: * Loïc Lagadec (Labsticc, University of Brest, France) * Alain Plantec (Lisyc, University of Brest, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Gabriela Arevalo * Marcus Denker * Johan Fabry * Lukas Renggli * Hernan Wilkinson * Damien Cassou * Alexandre Bergel * Jordi Delgado * Johan Brichau

Feb. 9, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] INRIA-CEA-EDF Deep into Smalltalk School registration open

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi guys just a note to mention that the registration will be closed by 22 for internal administrative reasons. So pay attention. If you have a problem lets me know. Stef On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:02 AM, stephane ducasse wrote: > I forgot to say that ESUG will sponsor this event and can hel you financially. > Please address your request to me. > > Stef > > On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> The registration for the school: deep on Smalltalk organized at INRIA Lille Nord Europe is now open. >> http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smal… >> >> Please register as soon as possible so that we can build some estimates. >> Please register even if you are local or close. >> >> ==== SCHOOL >> >> The objective of this school is to present on advanced Smalltalk topics such as compiler compiler, virtual machine, interaction with C, advanced UI, ... >> The school is structured around two main lectures on Virtual machines and a hand on sessions. >> • Igor Stasenko RMOD Lille France >> • Dr. Noury Bouraqadi >> • Henrik Johansen Norway >> • Jorge Ressia SCG Bern Switzerland >> • Marcus Denker RMOD Lille France >> • Prof. Theo D'Hondt VUB Belgium >> • Dr. Tudor Girba Switzerland >> • Dr. Eliot Miranda US >> >> • Date : du 7 mars 2011 au 11 mars 2011 >> • Lieu : Centre de recherche INRIA Lille Nord Europe >> >> ***There will be certainly a Pharo Sprint the saturday 15 of March. You are welcomed *** >> >> http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smal… >> >> HOTEL >> ==== >> I'm negotiating with some hotels to provide fast a list. >> Now the first hotel that is cheap and good and that agreed to get better rooms >> for the same price is Hotel Agora >> 14 r Molinel 59000 LILLE >> Mail : agorahotel(a)yahoo.fr. >> 03 20 31 55 52 >> fax :.03 20 06 27 54 >> You should mention that you are coming to INRIA to get reduction. >> >> Stef >

Feb. 9, 2011

Thursday ends Early Registration Rate for Smalltalk Solutions Las Vegas 2011 - The Business Conference

by Georg Heeg

All, Smalltalk Solutions Las Vegas 2011 - The Business Conference will take place March 13 - 16, 2011. You can find all details about the conference on our web site www.stic.st. Just the days before the conference there will be a Camp Smalltalk in the same location. Come and work with you Smalltalk friends on projects you like. Until now the community has proposed three projects to work on, and you can add more. Have a look at <http://code.google.com/p/camp-smalltalk/> http://code.google.com/p/camp-smalltalk/. Thursday this week the early registration will end, so please do not hesitate to register now. See you in Las Vegas Georg STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

Feb. 1, 2011