June 2013 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

12 months engineer position

by Loïc Lagadec

Dear all, (apologies if you receive multiple copies) We have a 12-months open position for a research engineer. The candidate will be in charge of refactoring of our legacy tools developed under Visualworks, in the scope of an ANR (french national research agency) project. The ardyt project aims at providing some low-cost reconfigurable system on chip, that addresses the avionics and space domains. Our contribution to the project mainly lies in providing a modeling framework of this chips, in order to support their efficient programming. Our candidate will have strong expertise in smalltalk, modeling, testing, versionning, and code profiling. Micro-electronics skills would be a plus, but are not necessary. Autonomy, responsibility, teamwork, planning, and the ability to achieve both academic and project objectives are important components of the application file. Salary depends on skills and experience. Probable extension for an additional 12-month period. start period: October 2013 Contact: Loic Lagadec - ENSTA Bretagne - France loic.lagadec(a)ensta-bretagne.fr --

June 17, 2013

ESUG 2013 - Call for presentations deadline extension.

by Stéphane Ducasse

Dear Smalltalkers We received already many good proposals but we know that you are busy now. So we decided to grant an extension for the call for presentation up 7 of July 2013. We will notify current proposers by the end of the current week -ie: 22. Stef 21st International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Annecy, France from 9 to 13 September 2013 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/ This call includes: Developer Forum Smalltalk Technology Award International Workshop http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers Camp Smalltalk 8 September 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the past 21 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. This year will be held the 9th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects and an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages (http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop) 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 (170 people at Amsterdam 2008)! * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enrol into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hand-ons tutorial. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials 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 Teaching Pearls --------------- New this year!!! We want two news types of sessions in addition to default talk and show us your projects sessions. - Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated. Open Forum: starting with Smalltalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New this year!! The event will be held at IAE Savoie Mont-Blanc - University of Savoie. This is an opportunity for students and local professionals to discover Smalltalk. A room will be freely accessible and we would like to propose some talks and workshop for Smalltalk beginners. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following: - Why Smalltalk ? - Panorama of Smalltalk solutions - Getting started with Smalltalk - Success stories How to submit? -------------- Submissions due on 15st June 2013 Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013 Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2013 Developers]. Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2013 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl/OpenForum Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop Smalltalk is considered as a design pearl and as a beacon in the realm of programming languages and programming environments. We are proud to invite submissions to the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies which is held as part of the ESUG 2013 joint event. The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as - aspect-oriented programming, meta-programming, - frameworks, interaction with other languages, - implementation, - new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, tools, - meta-modeling, design patterns, experience reports Technology Award Competition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013/ 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/2013 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers We hope to see you there and have fun together.

June 15, 2013

Sprint friday 28 of June

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi guys We will organize a one day sprint Friday at Lille. You are all welcome :) Stef

June 14, 2013

Deadline Extension : International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies - IWST

by Loïc Lagadec

Dear all, *Due to numerous requests the deadline for submissions has been extended until june 22, 2013.* This is a kind reminder that the deadline for *International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies* (IWST 2013) is approaching (june 22). The call for paper is accessible online at: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop. As for past editions, accepted papers will appear in ACM Digital Libary. IWST 2009 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1735935 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1735935> IWST 2010 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1942790 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1942790> IWST 2011 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929> IWST 2012 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2448963 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2448963> We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: * Aspect-oriented programming, * Design patterns, * Experience reports, * Frameworks, * Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, * Interaction with other languages, * Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, * Tools Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec co-chairs of IWST 2013. --

June 14, 2013

Re: [Esug-list] Pour la suite de mon stage

by Stéphane Ducasse

enovie le sur esug-list(a)lists.esug.org c'est mieux que cela soit toi qui l'envoie. Stef

June 4, 2013

ESUG 2013 Student Volunteers program

by Damien Cassou

Hi everyone, I just want to let you know that there are still 5 seats left for student volunteers program of ESUG 2013 in Annecy, France. 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. The 21th ESUG conference will be held in Annecy, France 9-13 September 2013. If you are a student please apply. If you know students who could be interested, tell them to apply: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers Best regards, -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

June 4, 2013

Re: [Esug-list] STIC 2013 and Camp Smalltalk

by Alexandre Bergel

Is there a list of topics for STIC's CampSmalltalk? We can do something around Roassal or profiling. If you are interested, then get in touch with me privately. Cheers, Alexandre On Jun 3, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Richard Sargent <richard.sargent(a)gemtalksystems.com> wrote: > How time flies! STIC 2013 is barely a week away. > > The hotel has made a room available for use by Camp Smalltalkers on Sunday > June 9th and Thursday June 13th. > > Additionally, John-Reed Maffeo - a local Phoenix Smalltalker - has arranged > with Gangplank Avondale ( > http://avondale.gangplankhq.com/ > ) from Noon to 8 > PM an Saturday the 8th with carryover through Sunday, if people would like > to continue in the same venue. > > > We are trying to get a sense of how many people expect to take part in Camp > Smalltalk activities this year. If you are, please be kind enough to drop > me a reply at > richard.sargent(a)gemtalksystems.com > . > > > Gangplank Avondale's facility is located six miles South of the Wigwam in > downtown Avondale. There will be plenty of space, power, and internet > access available. > > The Gangplank Community ( > http://whatisgangplank.com/ > ) is striving to build > a creative, collaborative, connected environment where innovation can > flourish. It is an excellent venue for Camp Smalltalk because the two > groups have many intertwined goals. > > Gangplank Avondale > 525 N Central Ave, Avondale, AZ > (877) 426-4755 > > There is a listing on the calendar > http://avondale.gangplankhq.com/events/ > > > > Contact John-Reed (John-Reed.Maffeo(a)BannerHealth.com) for more information > about Gangplank Avondale. > > > Thank you, > Richard Sargent > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

June 3, 2013

STIC 2013 and Camp Smalltalk

by Richard Sargent

How time flies! STIC 2013 is barely a week away. The hotel has made a room available for use by Camp Smalltalkers on Sunday June 9th and Thursday June 13th. Additionally, John-Reed Maffeo - a local Phoenix Smalltalker - has arranged with Gangplank Avondale (http://avondale.gangplankhq.com/) from Noon to 8 PM an Saturday the 8th with carryover through Sunday, if people would like to continue in the same venue. We are trying to get a sense of how many people expect to take part in Camp Smalltalk activities this year. If you are, please be kind enough to drop me a reply at richard.sargent(a)gemtalksystems.com. Gangplank Avondale's facility is located six miles South of the Wigwam in downtown Avondale. There will be plenty of space, power, and internet access available. The Gangplank Community (http://whatisgangplank.com/) is striving to build a creative, collaborative, connected environment where innovation can flourish. It is an excellent venue for Camp Smalltalk because the two groups have many intertwined goals. Gangplank Avondale 525 N Central Ave, Avondale, AZ (877) 426-4755 There is a listing on the calendar http://avondale.gangplankhq.com/events/ Contact John-Reed (John-Reed.Maffeo(a)BannerHealth.com) for more information about Gangplank Avondale. Thank you, Richard Sargent

June 3, 2013

International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies - IWST

by Loïc Lagadec

Dear all, This is a kind reminder that the deadline for *International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies* (IWST 2013) is approaching (june 15). The call for paper is accessible online at: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop. As for past editions, accepted papers will appear in ACM Digital Libary. IWST 2009 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1735935 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1735935> IWST 2010 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1942790 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1942790> IWST 2011 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929> IWST 2012 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2448963 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2448963> We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: * Aspect-oriented programming, * Design patterns, * Experience reports, * Frameworks, * Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, * Interaction with other languages, * Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, * Tools Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec co-chairs of IWST 2013. --

June 3, 2013