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Camp Smalltalk Roadtrip!
by DeNigris Sean Sept. 8, 2013

Sept. 8, 2013

(cross-posted to pharo dev and esug lists) Countdown to ESUG!!! My plane lands in Geneva at 1020 on 8 September. I was planning on taking the bus to Annecy, but apparently there is only one bus that Sunday, which arrives at 2200. Is anyone traveling that morning from the direction of Geneva who would like to team up e.g. share a taxi, meet somewhere along the way, etc? Thanks! Sean

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ESUG'13 Travel
by Hayatou Oumarou Sept. 1, 2013

Sept. 1, 2013

Hello, Please, Where and how to leave from paris Roissy Charles de gaulles airport to Annecy? i plan to travel on saturday 7 september. best regards. ------------------------------------ Hayatou

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ESUG 2012 videos
by Andres Valloud Aug. 30, 2013

Aug. 30, 2013

Hello, is there an archive of presentation videos for ESUG 2012 somewhere? TIA!

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Re: [Esug-list] Camp Smalltalk Roadtrip!
by Sean DeNigris Aug. 24, 2013

Aug. 24, 2013

Hmm, that schedule does seem to indicate a few buses in Sunday, but when I use their schedule form, no results show up for that day. Would a French-speaker please take a look and straighten this out? (and maybe it would be good to add our conclusions to the website) -------- Original message -------- From: Tom Robinson <zxrobinson(a)gmail.com> Date: 08/20/2013 11:32 PM (GMT+01:00) To: DeNigris Sean <sean(a)clipperadams.com> Cc: Alejandro Infante <alejandroinfante91(a)gmail.com>,esug-list@lists.esug.org,pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Esug-list] Camp Smalltalk Roadtrip! Sean, Look at http://www.frossard.eu/plans_lignes_fr.phtml. Click on the second route on the right - Annecy - Cruseilles-....Geneve to download the schedule. The second page is the Geneva to Annecy schedule. It looks like the blue columns are Monday - Sunday... Hope this helps. And if someone local from the Annecy area knows why I'm wrong, please speak up.... On 8/20/13 3:05 PM, DeNigris Sean wrote: Cool... Worst-case scenario, it seems that a taxi would be 100 euros or less, so if we can get three or four people, it would actually be pretty cheap! On Aug 20, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Alejandro Infante <alejandroinfante91(a)gmail.com> wrote: I was planning to travel to Annecy that Sunday morning from Geneva, but i didn't know that there were no available bus. Would be great to team up with someone. Cheers, Alejandro 2013/8/20 DeNigris Sean <sean(a)clipperadams.com> (cross-posted to pharo dev and esug lists) Countdown to ESUG!!! My plane lands in Geneva at 1020 on 8 September. I was planning on taking the bus to Annecy, but apparently there is only one bus that Sunday, which arrives at 2200. Is anyone traveling that morning from the direction of Geneva who would like to team up e.g. share a taxi, meet somewhere along the way, etc? Thanks! Sean _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

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Looking for a VisualWorks developer in belgium
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 23, 2013

Aug. 23, 2013

Begin forwarded message: > From: Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven(a)stfx.eu> > Subject: [Pharo-users] [Off-Topic] Looking for a VisualWorks developer > Date: August 23, 2013 3:24:18 PM GMT+02:00 > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org>, Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > Reply-To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > > Hi, > > On behalf of a contact of me, I am posting the following job offer. I am well aware that this is not the correct list, please feel free to distribute this message further. It could be important for someone, and it is always good to have more people making a living doing Smalltalk. > > Delaware Consulting [ http://www.delawareconsulting.com ] is looking for at least one full stack Cincom VisualWorks Smalltalk developer to help maintain and further evolve a large custom-made ERP solution of a manufacturing company in Belgium. > > If you are interested, please contact me at sven(a)stfx.eu for a more detailed document describing the project and requirements, as well as more concrete contact details. > > Thanks, > > Sven > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe > http://stfx.eu > Smalltalk is the Red Pill > >

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-= First Visualization Contest with Roassal =-
by Alexandre Bergel Aug. 23, 2013

Aug. 23, 2013

Dear colleagues and friends, We are happy to announce the First Visualization Contest with Roassal. What can I win? - 150 euros, sponsored by ObjectProfile - a über-cool ObjectProfile T-shirt and some wonderful stickers - maximum publicity of your work - a nice award certificate, delivered during ESUG How can I win? - you have to produce a visualization with Roassal. You can use the Pharo, VisualWorks or VAST version of Roassal. Here is an example of what we expect http://bit.ly/sunburstDemo - making a video is mandatory. The video will weight the most in our decision. The video could be of any length and has to include your name and say that is was made (partly or completely) with Roassal. No need to talk, just show off! - making your code available and easy to install will help you get more points How can I submit? - send the links of your video and other material (if needed) to info(a)objectprofile.com Every email you will send to this email will be acknowledged. If you do not receive a 'Ok' from us, it means we haven't read it, in that case send your email again after a few days. - the deadline for submitting is September 4, 2013 Mini FAQ? - Is the object-profile team allowed to participate? No - Should my visualization or code be open source? No need for this, whatever license is fine. However your video should be made public. - How can I get more information? Just comment on the facebook https://www.facebook.com/ObjectProfile or using Twitter @ObjectProfile or send email to info(a)objectprofile.com - What I submit twice? Yes, no problem with that - How will judge the videos? both the esug community and the object profile team. The Esug community will have 30% of the final grade, object profile the remaining 70% -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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ESUG 2013, 10th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Aug. 16, 2013

Aug. 16, 2013

Reminder: Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday September 9th 2013, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server. Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. The registration server will open soon. You can start preparing your software right now though. Info to provide: - Name of the software - Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) - Name of the Smalltalk dialect used - Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: - URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software - URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo - Deadline: *September 7th* Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests, Jordi

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Vegetarian version - Sunday camp meal registration (new version)
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 14, 2013

Aug. 14, 2013

Dear All, I modified the doodle in adding a column for vegetarian people. Those of you who already filled in the doodle can do it again ;-) You'll use the same link as the one previously sent by Stephane: http://www.doodle.com/igd4fax6ym2qvvra#table See you soon at Annecy, Herve ======== Stef's email ======== Hi guys If you want to have lunch during the camp we found a solution for 14.7 euros that we will have to pay individually. If you want to benefit from it and, you must sign the doodle. http://www.doodle.com/igd4fax6ym2qvvra#table The 26 of August we will freeze the list and commit. There are few open restaurants open the sunday in this place and the ones are most expensive and require probably registration. Stef

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About Smalltalk camp sunday lunch
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 13, 2013

Aug. 13, 2013

Hi guys If you want to have lunch during the camp we found a solution for 14.7 euros that we will have to pay individually. If you want to benefit from it and, you must sign the doodle. http://www.doodle.com/igd4fax6ym2qvvra#table The 26 of August we will freeze the list and commit. There are few open restaurants open the sunday in this place and the ones are most expensive and require probably registration. Stef

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Presentation of rackincloud.com (new Pharo hosting)
by mikefilonov Aug. 13, 2013

Aug. 13, 2013

Hello, My name is Mikhail Filonov and I am here to present my project "RackInCloud – virtual appliance hosting" to the community. Some time ago I created several Seaside applications and faced with the fact that it was quite a job to host them. After couple futile attempts I could not find any satisfied Seaside-hosting solution. Other option, running and configuring a VPS with Pharo/Seaside seemed like a non-trivial task that requires some skills. You should be very motivated to host your seaside application, right? I'm sure, this kind of troubles might be a huge barrier for people who want to try Smalltalk. I believe existence of easy Smalltalk hosting is an essential addition to Seaside with its beauty and power, which in its turn should attract more people to the community. At the time being I know several ways on how this issue could be solved. First of the existent solution – seasidehosting.st. This project has several strong constraints on its use though, which limit possible applications it hosts. Frankly speaking, I also don’t share the way their management is organized: it is really not obvious for new user how to deploy and manage your Smalltalk image. Another trouble with seasidehositing.st is that it is a little bit outdate: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-rackincloude-seaside-hosting-tp4701427p4701…. The promising successor of seasidehositing.st – the smalltalkharbour project - seemed to set a very good set of aims for them: http://smallharbour.seasidehosting.st/seaside/seaside/seaside/seaside/seasi…. However it seems that smalltalkharbour team chose a very long road to the success and now this promising project is dead: the last news is dated with 11 August 2011, their main site does not respond. Moreover as for me, the way of management that is set by seasidehositing.st is not very convenient. For example, it is not possible to use monticello to update my application on hosting or to use external services like MySql or mongodb. Moreover there is a performance concern: by moving memory- and processes- expensive tasks from Smalltalk to other services, Seaside might be used with all its beauty and speed for Web font-end development. Even Seaside developers share this approach by recommending to move "static file sharing" task outside of Smalltalk to Apache server: http://book.seaside.st/book/in-action/serving-files. So when we talk about Smalltalk hosting, it is not correct to think only of Seaside: it is important to find a more general way to manage the whole infrastructure of external services for easy deployment. RackInCloud might solve this issue with the idea of "appliances" — the pre-configured VMs which are built to serve one single function (ex., MySql-appliance, FileServer-appliance, Pharo-appliance). One great benefit of this approach is that we can prepare all necessary ISO images for the services and deploy them when needed, so that a developer can easily build their own service environment – just running all necessary services in one click in a personal "virtual rack". Thereby I developed a Pharo-Appliance. It is an ISO image that runs Pharo-vm and provides developer with an access via VNC to the Pharo developing environment, where it is possible to use your favorite tools to deploy your application: you are absolutely not limited in configuration of the hosting. Ideologically the appliance is a non-installable ISO-image with minimal memory footprint (approx. 60Mb), where it is supposed that only user data is stored on a hard disk (Pharo image in the case of Pharo appliance) and all the software and libraries are loaded directly from a system ISO-image. This makes it possible to startup a new Pharo instance in "one click". Here you may watch a short video of the full process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V75LFgdxHY or you may simply try it out on http://www.rackincloud.com (it is free for a trial). In my opinion this approach is far more generic then the existing ones. It does not limit the developer in how to use the hosting. For example, here you can read the comment, written by Janko Mivšek, the author of Aidaweb Smalltalk Web application framework on how he run his framework on RackInCloud: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-rackincloude-seaside-hosting-tp4701427p4701…. So it is important that here you are not limited only to Seaside. Anything, that can be run on Pharo, can be run on rackincloud.com. Moreover, if it cannot be run on Pharo for some reason, we can apply the same approach to build the appliance you need and run your application in coherent environment. In conclusion let me mention, that this is a very first run of rackincloud.com. This is only a starting point (though we have already implemented most of smallharbour project vision here :) ) and in the future I plan to develop the service further on. If this project finds interest among the community, I already have a lot of ideas on how to enhance the service. So let me invite everyone to test it and I'm really looking forward to hear any feedback from you, guys. If you have any ideas, please contact me. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Presentation-of-rackincloud-com-new-Pharo-hosting-tp4… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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