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pharoconf | mooseday | 2013 - call for participation
by Tudor Girba March 17, 2013

March 17, 2013

(please distribute) We are happy to invite you to the PharoConf | MooseDay | 2013: http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/events/pharoconf-mooseday-2013 The conference will take place at the University of Bern during April 2-4: - PharoConf (April 2,3) - MooseDay (April 4) The conference will be free and will even include a free lunch. Yes, free lunch. No trick. We only kindly ask you to register online for each event as soon as possible. STUDENT SPONSORSHIPS: ESUG will sponsor the travel of up to 10 students with 150 EUR / person. Please apply for sponsorship by mail at esug-info(a)esug.org. First-come, first-served. The conference sponsors will sponsor the travel of up to 10 students with up to 200 CHF / person. Please apply for sponsorship before the conference by mail at tudor(a)tudorgirba.com. First-come, first-served. IMPORTANT If you are a student, please bring your student cards with you to help us limit the lunch costs. Cheers, The organizers

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[ANN] Amber 0.10 released!
by Nicolas Petton March 13, 2013

March 13, 2013

After a bit more than one year we have finally put together a new release of Amber - the web developer's best friend: http://www.amber-lang.net Yeah, we know, too long time for a release cycle, but we think you will like this release! First - let's run the numbers - since the 0.9.1 release there have been over 850 commits (compared to 250 for 0.9.1). We have closed 364 issues and added 150 new unit tests bringing us to 271 in total. All classes in the kernel now have comments and there are Travis jobs to keep us all in line. Forks on github have gone up from 43 to 83 with 365 followers. Phew. And what goodies does this give us? Well, first Nicolas got carried away with compiler technology (must have read a book or something) and added a whole new Super Duper compiler tool chain providing both an AST with annotations and an Intermediate Representation layer (IR) enabling semantic analysis and easier optimizations, a better inlining mechanism, support for block contexts (whoa!) and an AST interpreter to round it off. Wait a minute, what? An interpreter? Why on earth would we want a... oh. To be able to implement a full stepping debugger of course (coming in 1.0). Baddabing! Just the new compiler tool chain would have been enough for a release, but since Nicolas is not the only Elf in Amber land this release also includes SUnit improvements and cleanup with support for async assertions, a new build system based on gruntjs replacing the old makefiles (seems slicker in the land of JS), an improved ClassBuilder with better class migration support and a new amberc compiler written in Amber instead of that ghastly bash script... (deep breath) ...and an improved loader to be able to use 3rd party packages, improved kernel classes, and updated documentation. And we also split the github repo into three separate repos - Amber itself, the examples and the website - and yeah, the website got a new look. ...and a whole new IDE is brewing called Helios (in the helios branch). But nah, sorry, Helios will land in 1.0. :) We hope you join us in developing Amber and having fun! Fork at github, join in #amber-lang on freenode and hop onto the mailing list. /the Amber crew

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Squeak Community Hangout today
by Bert Freudenberg March 11, 2013

March 11, 2013

If you want to chat with other Squeakers, feel free to drop by on https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/csf1f4prqs0s40o64avo9b9808g - Bert -

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Re: [Esug-list] GSoC13: Google Summer of Code started, your ideas please!
by Janko Mivšek March 10, 2013

March 10, 2013

Good ideas Denis! Amber from Pharo is certainly something I'd like to see. And image based persistence improvements, maybe something like log of changes to recover after the crash. What do you mean by next gen dev env? And by knowledge mgmt? Can you try to develop them further, probably under this template: Level: (beginner, intermediate, advanced) Possible mentor: (can be assigned later) Possible second mentor: (can be assigned later) Description Technical Details Benefits to the Student Benefits to the Community Janko Dne 09. 03. 2013 18:36, piše Dennis Schetinin: > Tools for developing Amber web clients from Pharo. > > New generation of Smalltalk development environment. > > Knowledge management. > > Developing new tools for TDD. > > Improve Smalltalk built-in image persistence, change management etc. > > -- > > Best regards, > > Dennis Schetinin > > > > 2013/3/9 Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si > <mailto:janko.mivsek@eranova.si>> > > Dear Smalltalkers, > > Time for your cool project ideas on this year Smalltalk GSoC! > > For now just express any idea you have here on the mailing list. Later > we will together develop it to be in complete format together with two > mentors needed. Deadline is end of Mart, so we have three weeks of time. > To see how fully developed ideas look like please look at 2012 ones at: > http://gsoc2012.esug.org/ideas. > > Note also that students yourselves can propose a GSoC project. So if you > like to be a student on this year GSoC and have a nice idea, don't be > shy and propose it here! The community will listen you and guide to the > really nicely proposed project. Last year 6 student proposed projects > were accepted and finished successfully! > > For the community, start looking around for students. Think about how to > approach the universities near by you, do you know who to contact > there, etc. > > We are namely preparing an application to this year Smalltalk Google > Summer of Code under ESUG umbrella, as last year. If accepted, Google > will pay few stipendiums to students on our Smalltalk projects. > > More on our special Smalltalk GSoC 2013 website: > > http://gsoc2013.esug.org > > I'm specially inviting mentors of all past GSoCs to rejoin the mentors > mailing list, where we discuss all details about this year GSoC: > > http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors > > While students interested on GSoC please join a special Smalltalk GSoC > mailing list for you: > > http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-students > > Best regards > Janko > > > -- > Janko Mivšek > Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team > http://gsoc2013.esug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:Esug-list@lists.esug.org> > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

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Fwd: Third CALL FOR PAPERS CEC-TAL'13
by FU Zhe March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mohamed Mahdi Boudabous <mehdiboudabous(a)gmail.com> Date: 2013/3/3 Subject: Third CALL FOR PAPERS CEC-TAL'13 To: fu.zhe(a)courrier.uqam.ca *Third CALL FOR PAPERS CEC-TAL'13* *International Colloquium for students Researchers in Natural Language Processing and its Applications* *September 5-6, 2013, Montréal, Canada ************* http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/index.htm ************ * ** *Call for papers* The first Colloquium for Students Researchers in Natural Language Processing and its Applications (CEC-TAL'13). The first colloquium for Students Researchers in Natural Language Processing and its Applications (CEC-TAL'13) will be held in Montreal from September 5th to September 6th 2013. The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers from related disciplines (language resources development, analysis and generation, natural language processing and NLP application) and experts from industry and companies that deploy extraction methods and knowledge management to provide quality work and to exchange and fertilize new ideas. *Types of communication* Authors are invited to submit three types of communications: 1) Articles presenting original research. 2) Articles presenting a point of view on the state of research in NLP, based on a solid experience in the field. 3) Articles presenting a dissertation ongoing work. Accepted papers will be presented as an oral communication. Communication (in English or French) will be for 20 minutes, followed by 10 minute for questions. *Authors who, exceptionally, can not attend the conference must apply for a live conference video call with a valid excuse, their application will be reviewed and they maybe granted an exception by the program **committee. Otherwise, their papers will not appear in the conference proceedings.* *Terms of submission* Articles should be submitted in pdf format only without a mention of the author (s) or its affiliate and will absolutely use the format available at: ************** *http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/FormatCEC-TAL .doc* ************** ** Submissions that do not exceed 4 pages will be considered as short papers. Submissions between 4 and 8 pages will be considered as long papers. Articles must be submitted by EasyChair : ************** *https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cectal13* **************** *Important dates* - *Paper submission deadline* : 31 Mars 2013 23:59 (Heure de l'est)* * - *Notification of acceptance* : 28 Mai 2013 - *Soumission de la version finale* : Camera-ready deadline - *Conference* : 5-6 Septembre 2013 *Selection criteria* ** Authors must be PhD student(s), Master student(s) or young doctor(s) who defended their thesis within the last three years. Authors are invited to submit original research that has not been published previously. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field. We considered in particular: - The importance and originality of the contribution. - Correcting the scientific and technical content. - Critical discussion of the results, particularly in relation to other work in the field. - The status of work in the context of international research. - The organization and clarity of presentation. - The adequacy of the conference themes. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following the opinion of the program, presentations will be made only in oral form. *Terms of publication* Authors of accepted papers will subsequently be invited to submit their articles for publication in the Proceedings of CEC-TAL'13. Authors can write their articles in both official languages of Canada (English or French). *Program commitee* - Mona Diab (George Washington University) - Lynne Da Silva (University of Montreal) - Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal) - Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal) - Marie Claude L'Homme (University of Montreal) - Abdelaati Hawwari (Columbia University) - Houda Bouamor (Carnegie Mellon University) - Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Nadi Tomeh (Columbia University) - Bilel Gargouri (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Maher Jaoua (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Faiez Gargouri (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Mariem Ellouze Khemakhem (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Ludovic Jean-Louis (University of Montreal) - Asma Ben Abacha (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg ) - Wajdi Zaghouani (Carnegie Mellon University) - Adel Jebali (Concordia University) - Fatiha Sadat (UQAM) - Mohamed Mahdi Boudabous (University of Safx-Tinisia) - Rahma Sallemi (University of Safx-Tinisia) - Béatrice Arnulphy (IRSIA) -- ************************************************************* Mohamed Mahdi BOUDABOUS PhD Computer Science Student Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax http://www.fsegs.rnu.tn/ ANLP Research Group http://sites.google.com/site/anlprg MIRACL Laboratory www.miracl.rnu.tn Page Web: https://sites.google.com/site/mehdiboudabous/ Email: mehdiboudabous(a)gmail.com Adress: Route de Gremda Km 4, Sidi abbess - CP : 3062 - Sfax - TUNISIE. Gsm: +216 99505634 ************************************************************* -- Doctorat en Informatique Cognitive Département informatique cognitive (DIC) Université du Québec à Montréal

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Re: [Esug-list] [sbe] Re: [ANN] Writing books with Gutemberg
by Damien Cassou March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Oscar Nierstrasz <oscar(a)iam.unibe.ch> wrote: > Cool, but why is called "Gutemberg" and not "Gutenberg"? that's a feature -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

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[ANN] Writing books with Gutemberg
by Damien Cassou March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

Hi, Stéphane and I have been working on Gutemberg, a tool that converts books written using the Pier syntax to PDF documents and HTML pages. http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~DamienCassou/Pier-Gutemberg This project is partially supported by ESUG http://www.esug.org/. We are proud to announce the first alpha version of Gutemberg. This alpha version has a nearly-complete PDF exporter and a basically-working HTML exporter. We use Inria infrastructure to build one example book: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/. The long term goal is to facilitate collaborative book editing. We don't want to impose a web browser and an active Internet connection. -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

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SPLASH-13 CfPs: OOPSLA | Onward! | DLS | Wavefront
by Robert Hirschfeld March 5, 2013

March 5, 2013

ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity SPLASH-13 Indiana, Indianapolis October 26-31, 2013 http://www.splashcon.org http://twitter.com/splashcon http://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon http://www.linkedin.com/groups/SPLASH-Conference-2487082 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************** * COMBINED CALL FOR PAPERS * **************************************************************/ * Overview http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp * OOPSLA research papers http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp/618 Abstracts due: March 22, 2013 Submissions due: March 28, 2013 * Onward! research papers http://onward-conference.org http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp/647 Abstracts due: March 29, 2013 Submissions due: April 5, 2013 * Onward! essays http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp/662 Submissions due: April 10, 2013 * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) http://www.splashcon.org/2013/cfp/651 http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-13/cfp/ Submissions due: June 8, 2013 * Wavefront papers and experience reports http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp/656 Submissions due: April 5, 2013 /*************************************************************/ -- Robert Hirschfeld hirschfeld(a)acm.org www.hirschfeld.org

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[ANN] Moose 4.7
by Tudor Girba March 3, 2013

March 3, 2013

We are happy to announce the Moose Suite version 4.7: http://moosetechnology.org/download What is new: • Integration of the Roassal visualization engine • New PetitParser browser with integrated refactorings • Improved Glamorous Toolkit for Pharo including the Glamorous Inspector and Debugger • Several features in Glamour including Watcher support (similar to OS X preview) • Significant improvements in FAMIX • Improved external VerveineJ parser for Java • Based on Pharo 1.4 A list of issues addressed in this release can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/list?can=1&q=status=Fixed%… Have fun, The Moose Team

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Release of the Pharo consortium web site
by Stéphane Ducasse March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013

Hi guys After some efforts, we are proud to announce the consortium around Pharo. http://consortium.pharo.org With such consortium, companies and academic partners will be able to collaborate and sustain the development of the Pharo environment and ecosystem. Today we announce the release of the beta version of the official consortium website. Invest in your future, participate to the consortium! Our goal is to be able to pay a couple of full-time engineers to build a bright future for everyone. Thanks Esteban for the effort, lusy for the design, and our first members: Inria, VMWare, yesplan, 2denker, madEnvironment, BetaNine, Versus for their trust We wish you a lot of business and success! The Pharo Team

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