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Preparing Glorp Tutorial at ESUG 2014
by François Stephany Sept. 9, 2014

Sept. 9, 2014

Hi, There is a Glorp tutorial scheduled at 2pm on Monday. The description says that we attendants should have a Glorp Ready setup on their laptop. Is there any planned session to get this setup working? If I understand well, we need a VW image with Glorp loaded. Any special steps to do that? A stock PostgreSQL 9.3 is enough as well? Cheers, Francois

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Thank you
by Holger Kleinsorgen Sept. 2, 2014

Sept. 2, 2014

Hello, kudos to the organizers & participants of this greate event, I enjoyed my first ESUG a lot. Lots of interesting stuff from the past, present and future. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Thank-you-tp4774836.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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ESUG 2014 Slides: first batch in the Archive
by Marcus Denker Aug. 29, 2014

Aug. 29, 2014

Hi, All Slides that where given to the Student Volunteers are now in the archive: http://esug.org/data/ESUG2014/ -> Some Slides are missing. If you do not see yours —> send them to me. (I will contact people directly in addition) -> The slides will be uploaded to SlideShare slowly and then linked in the Video descriptions on youtube. This will be done slowly over the next week. Marcus

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[ESUG-Offtopic] Looking for a Smalltalk job
by Santiago Bragagnolo Aug. 28, 2014

Aug. 28, 2014

Hi everyone. Sorry because of the offtopic. I am actively looking for a job, and i was wondering if there is any smalltalk position available. My CV is attached. Contact me by private message, to keep the list clean :). Thank you very much. Santiago.

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Roassal contest result
by Alexandre Bergel Aug. 21, 2014

Aug. 21, 2014

Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is a great pleasure for me to announce the result of the 2014 Roassal contest organized by ObjectProfile.com Certificates and the money awards were delivered during a ceremony held at the Esug conference, in Cambridge, UK. This year we have two winners: Roassal2 track: “RTVoronyjBuilder” by Natalia Tymchuk http://youtu.be/SlJptrlBbho Roassal 3d track: "Roassal City Layouts”, by Yuriy Tymchuk http://youtu.be/CuimMwuZiGA Other remarkable contributions: "Navigate and visualize epidemiological models with the KendrickBrowser”, by Fabrice Atrevi https://vimeo.com/103197416 "Explora Qualitas Corpus", by Leonel Merino http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eoSV7LdPac The very same contest will be organized next year. Cheers, Alexandre on behalf of the Object Profile crew

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-dev] Quitting the community
by Tudor Girba Aug. 19, 2014

Aug. 19, 2014

Hi Ben, Thanks for letting us know. I am sorry you feel this way, but I believe your presentation of the situation is both unfair and unfortunate. You are obviously referring to issues that are of personal nature, and as outsiders we are left with only an ugly feeling without being able to either understand or fix anything. I was actually having fun until your email, and as far as I can tell, others were having fun as well. I am not sure what the intention of your email was, but at least for me, your mail did manage to spoil the fun for a second. I appreciate the work you put in Pharo, I respect your decision, but I do not sympathize with your behavior. Good luck, Doru On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Benjamin < benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I am sending this email to explain why I am quiting the Pharo community, > as well as the Smalltalk community. > > I can not bear Stephane Ducasse's behavior anymore whether at a public > level or a private level. > > It seems that his ego is preventing him from being able to have a > discussion > without overreacting, being agressive, or insulting. > > I can not approve how Stephane is constantly talking behind my back to > unleash > his irrationnal wrath and to provide his very own version of the facts. > > I can not see how this can lead to a peaceful and respectful community > where we can all have fun building a future. > > Therefore I will not be part of this project anymore, since the way > Stephane > is acting is taking away all the fun I can have interacting with all of > you. > > It was a hard decision to take, but I can not be part of a community led > by someone whose behaviour is going against all my principles. > > I wish to all of you to have fun, and keep me in touch > if you want to have a beer someday ;) > > Ben > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] [ANN] Live Robot Programming
by Johan Fabry Aug. 16, 2014

Aug. 16, 2014

Thanks to both :-) Daniel: Contributions from you will be certainly very welcome :-) But watch out, to be able to remote control the EV3 you also need a WiFi key, specifically the Netgear N150 (WNA1100 chipset). Only that one works, and they are getting harder to find these days :-( On Aug 14, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Lemuus <lemuus(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome!!! now I really need to get a Lego Mindstorms EV3 :) > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo <santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Great Johan! Congrats for both of you :) > > > 2014-08-14 22:37 GMT+02:00 Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl>: > > > Aargh, copy-paste error. The Lego robot example is on Instagram of course :-) > > http://instagram.com/p/pEhm0Oj837/ > > > On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, or LRP for short. > > > > LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA > > > > Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live programming nested state machines as well. > > > > More information on LRP is available on its website: http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. > > > > LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. > > > > Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a robot). > > > > All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Moose-dev mailing list > > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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Award.... new process :)
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 15, 2014

Aug. 15, 2014

Hi smalltalkers for the awards it seems that the registration server has still a problem. I suggest that you prepare your video and that you send a title and a little description of your project as a reply to this mail. We will manage it differently but we will do this great competition. Stef

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[ANN] Live Robot Programming
by Johan Fabry Aug. 14, 2014

Aug. 14, 2014

Hi all, it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, or LRP for short. LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live programming nested state machines as well. More information on LRP is available on its website: http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a robot). All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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Submission problems fixed - ESUG 2014 REMINDER: 11th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Aug. 10, 2014

Aug. 10, 2014

We're sorry but we realized that there was a misconfiguration that prevented the submission of award candidates. It has been fixed and now it works fine. ESUG 2014 REMINDER: 11th Innovation Technology Awards http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/Innovation-Technology-Awards 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 August 18th 2014, 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: *August 15th* 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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