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Re: [Esug-list] ESUG 2011 Call for Contributions

by Niall Ross

>>19th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions >> >> Edinburgh, England >> That's, ah, Edinburgh, _Scotland_, actually - or Edinburgh, Great Britain or Edinburgh, United Kingdom, or Edinburgh, Albion, or Edinburgh, Britannia, or .... Saying 'England' for 'Britain' abroad is quite usual but saying 'Edinburgh, _England_' is not quite geographically accurate - and may draw the occasional comment from the natives :-) ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

March 2, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG 2011 Call for Contributions

by Stéphane Ducasse

Of course doing too many things.... You all got that this is at Edinburgh and in august > Please distribute widely > > 19th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions > > Edinburgh, England > August 20-26 2011; Camp Smalltalk August 20-21 > http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/ > > This call includes: > Developer program > Free ESUG tickets > International Workshop http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/International-Workshop-on-Smalltalk-Techno… > Student Volunteer http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/Student+Volunteers+program > Camp Smalltalk: Saturday 20th - Sunday 21st August 2011. > ESUG conference: Monday 22nd - Friday 26th August 2011. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For the past 19 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has > organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on > cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both > academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both > engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers > using Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes. > > As every year, this year's edition of the largest European Smalltalk > event will include the regular Smalltalk developers conference with > renowned invited speakers, a Smalltalk camp that proves fruitful for > interactions and discussions. Besides, this year will be held the > - 7th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be > awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects > - an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages > http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/International-Workshop-on-Sm… > > > - ESUG will offer 10 free entrance tickets. > To get a free ticket you should send a mail to the esug board (board(a)esug.org) > Subject: [ESUG 2011 Free entrance] + your name > And you should write a small motivation. > > > You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: > > * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at > http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ > * Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See > below. > > * Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of > attendance (156 participants at Brest and 170 people at Amsterdam, 150 at Barcelona)! > > * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll > into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. > > Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This year we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. > In addition, we are looking for tutorials. The > list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following: > > * XP practices > * Development tools > * Experience reports > * Model driven development > * Web development > * Team management > * Meta-Modeling > * Security > * New libraries & frameworks > * Educational material > * Embedded systems and robotics > * SOA and Web services > * Interaction with other programming languages > > Submissions due on 1 July 2010 > Notification of acceptance on 5 of July 2010 > More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2011 > > How to submit? > ------------------ > Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last > minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to > board(a)esug.org AND stephane.ducasse(a)free.fr > following the template below. Please use this template since the > emails will be automatically processed! > > Subject: [ESUG 2011 Developers] + your name > > First Name: > > Last Name: > > Email where you can always be reached: > > Title: > > Abstract: > > Bio: > > Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically > > > Innovation Technology Award > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > We are proud to announce the 6th Innovation Technology Awards. The > top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, > respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards > ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based > software are welcome to compete. This year we will request 3-5min videos. > More information at http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/Innovation+Technology+Awards > > > Student Volunteer Program > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered > being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the > conference running smoothly; in return, they have free > accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the > conference. > More information at > http://www.esug.org/conferences/2011 > http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/Student+Volunteers+program > > We hope to see you there and have fun together. > > > Ze ESUG board_______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > Board(a)lists.esug.org

March 1, 2011

ESUG 2011 Call for Contributions

by Stéphane Ducasse

19th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Barcelona, Spain September 20-26 2011; Camp Smalltalk September 20-21 http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/ This call includes: Developer program Free ESUG tickets International Workshop http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/International-Workshop-on-Smalltalk-Techno… Student Volunteer http://esug.org/Conferences/2011/Student+Volunteers+program Camp Smalltalk: Saturday 20th - Sunday 21st August 2011. ESUG conference: Monday 22nd - Friday 26th August 2011. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the past 19 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers using Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes. As every year, this year's edition of the largest European Smalltalk event will include the regular Smalltalk developers conference with renowned invited speakers, a Smalltalk camp that proves fruitful for interactions and discussions. Besides, this year will be held the - 7th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects - an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/International-Workshop-on-Sm… - ESUG will offer 10 free entrance tickets. To get a free ticket you should send a mail to the esug board (board(a)esug.org) Subject: [ESUG 2011 Free entrance] + your name And you should write a small motivation. You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ * Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below. * Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (156 participants at Brest and 170 people at Amsterdam, 150 at Barcelona)! * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This year we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. In addition, we are looking for tutorials. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following: * XP practices * Development tools * Experience reports * Model driven development * Web development * Team management * Meta-Modeling * Security * New libraries & frameworks * Educational material * Embedded systems and robotics * SOA and Web services * Interaction with other programming languages Submissions due on 1 July 2010 Notification of acceptance on 5 of July 2010 More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2011 How to submit? ------------------ Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to board(a)esug.org AND stephane.ducasse(a)free.fr following the template below. Please use this template since the emails will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2011 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically Innovation Technology Award ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are proud to announce the 6th Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete. This year we will request 3-5min videos. More information at http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/Innovation+Technology+Awards Student Volunteer Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2011 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2011/Student+Volunteers+program We hope to see you there and have fun together. Ze ESUG board_______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board(a)lists.esug.org

March 1, 2011

Re: [Esug-list] ***IMPORTANT***: Pharo consortium call for letter of intention

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Are you accepting this letter in the Deep Smalltalk course? cheers Mariano On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>wrote: > Dear Pharoers and Smalltalkers at large, > > We are pursuing an effort to bring Pharo to the next level: we will set up > a consortium of pharo users (university, user groups) 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/individuals > 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) > The letter is a letter stating that you would be interested depending on > the final setup and condition. We will decide together the model but we want > to make sure that everybody can participate. > > > Thanks for your support > > The Pharo Board > > M. Denker, S. Ducasse, and A. Lienhard > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > >

March 1, 2011

***IMPORTANT***: Pharo consortium call for letter of intention

by Stéphane Ducasse

Dear Pharoers and Smalltalkers at large, We are pursuing an effort to bring Pharo to the next level: we will set up a consortium of pharo users (university, user groups) 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/individuals 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) The letter is a letter stating that you would be interested depending on the final setup and condition. We will decide together the model but we want to make sure that everybody can participate. Thanks for your support The Pharo Board M. Denker, S. Ducasse, and A. Lienhard

March 1, 2011