May 2016 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

[ANN] Pharo 5.0 released!

by Esteban Lorenzano

Hi, Please spread widely, and sorry for multiple posts. (this post can be see here: http://pharo.org/news/pharo-5.0-released <http://pharo.org/news/pharo-5.0-released>) Dear World, The time has come for Pharo 5.0! This is our most significant release yet. Here are some highlights: - The PharoVM is now based on Spur, the new memory management, and it brings with it a 35% speedup! - A new unified foreign function interface (UFFI) replaced NativeBoost to provide a strong Spur-compatible framework for interfacing with the outside world. - The Glamorous Toolkit now includes the GTDebugger to offer a moldable infrastructure that allows the developer to customize the debugger deeply. - The underlying Reflectivity mechanism has reached maturity with multiple pieces coming together to empower developers to instrument their own systems. For example, we now have breakpoints implemented as just a simple extension of this mechanism. - QualityAssistant is now part of the image to provide live feedback during development. These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as important. We have closed 2446 issues in Pharo 5. Take a moment to go through a more detailed recount of the progress: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo50Change… <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo50Change…>. While the technical improvements are significant, just think of getting 30% faster out-of-the-box, still the most impressive fact is that the new code that got in the main Pharo 5.0 image was contributed by 100 people. Together we have touched 43% of the classes, and 20% of the methods. The following visualization rendered with Roassal in Pharo 5.0 is dedicated to this effort. The picture shows the touched classes and packages in gray, the authors and the links to the changed classes in red, and, using an automatically generated visual id, you can spot authors that have worked on similar projects. Pharo is more than code. It is an exciting project involving energetic people. We thank all the contributors of this release: Abdelghani Alidra, Clara Allende, David Allouche, Nicolas Anquetil, Thibault Arloing, Jean Baptiste Arnaud, Mangesh Bendre, Clement Bera, Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Usman Bhatti, Vincent Blondeau, Johan Brichau, Camillo Bruni, Miguel Campusano, Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Danny Chan, Andrei Chis, Christopher Coat, Ben Coman, Bernardo Contreras, Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Tommaso Dal Sasso, Paul De Bruicker, Sean De Nigris, Christophe Demarey, Simon Denier, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, John Dougan, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Johan Fabry, Sergio Fedi, Cyril Ferlicot, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Joshua Gargus, Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Kris Gybels, Norbert Hartl, Thomas Heniart, Dale Henrichs, Nicolai Hess, Alejandro Infante, Henrik Johansen, Goran Krampe, Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, Denis Kudriashov, Matthieu Lacaton, Laurent Laffont, Kevin Lanvin, Jannik Laval, Alexander Lazarević, Skip Lentz, Max Leske, Dave Lewis, Esteban Lorenzano, Sheridan Mahoney, Mariano Martinez Peck, Max Mattone, John McIntosh, Rene Meusel, Eliot Miranda, Henrik Nergaard, Marion Noirbent, Merwan Ouddane, Nick Papoulias, Nicolas Passerini, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Baptiste Quide, Andreas Raab (RIP), Alain Rastoul, Stefan Reichhart, Lukas Renggli, Mark Rizun, Michael Rueger, Valentin Ryckewaert, Ronie Salgado, Udo Schneider, Boris Spasojevic, Igor Stasenko, Roger Stebler, Serge Stinckwich, Aliaksei Syrel, Camille Teruel, Pablo Tesone, Yuriy Tymchuk, Peter Uhnak, Masashi Umezawa, Dion Stewart, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Jan Van De Sandt, Benjamin Van Ryseghem, Toon Verwaest, Franck Warlouzet. (If you contributed with Pharo 5.0 development in any way and we missed your name, please send us a mail and we will add you). Enjoy! The Pharo Team

May 12, 2016

SPLASH-I 2016: Call for Talk Proposals!

by Tijs van der Storm

# SPLASH-I: Innovation, Interaction, Insight, Industry, Invited The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH 2016 will take place from Sunday, October 30 to Friday, November 4, 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. SPLASH-I is the track of SPLASH dedicated to great talks on exciting topics! SPLASH-I will run in parallel with all of SPLASH (during the week days), and is open to all attendees. SPLASH-I will host both invited talks and selected talks submitted via this call for proposals. SPLASH-I solicits inspiring talks, tutorials and demonstrations on exciting topics related to programming and programming systems, delivered by excellent speakers from academia or industry. SPLASH-I caters for three categories of presentations: - Regular talks on programming languages, systems or concepts; - Tutorials aimed at introducing particular tools, systems, or languages - Demonstrations showing off cool programming technology. All slots in SPLASH-I are 45 minutes. Please submit proposals here: http://goo.gl/forms/FZqQwpd73G Have a suggestion for a great speaker and topic? Suggest it here: http://goo.gl/forms/MWzgStWkww SPLASH-I maintains two deadlines: 1st of June, and, if there are still slots available, 1st of August. Websites: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-splash-i Organization: Eelco Visser (TU Delft), Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Committee: - Matthias Hauswirth (University of Lugano) - Igor Peshansky (Google) - Tiark Rompf (Purdue & Oracle Labs) - Jurgen Vinju (CWI)

May 11, 2016

SPLASH 2016: Call for Sponsorships

by Tijs van der Storm

The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH 2016 will take place from Sunday, October 30 to Friday, November 4, 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Web version of this call for sponsorships: http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/support-program SPLASH is where the best of the best in software innovation, programming and programming languages convene, learn from and inspire each other, and share their passion for software. Supporting SPLASH is an opportunity to put your corporate name in front of this community — a superb investment for your organization. # Sponsorship Packages ## Diamond: $US 15 000 Benefits: - Recognition as a supporter in print and on the web. Recognized as a Diamond supporter on registration brochures and conference program - Two company-provided items placed in the conference tote bag - Official exclusive support for your choice of (subject to availability): Doctoral Symposium, Poster Session, Keynotes, or support for 8 Student Volunteers named for your organization - Attendance (for two) at an invitation-only reception by the SPLASH General Chair - Choice of: two Full conference registrations; or two complimentary main conference registrations plus two complimentary one-day pass registrations ## Gold: $US 10 000 Benefits: - Recognition as a supporter in print and on the web. Recognized as a Gold supporter on registration brochures and conference program - Two company-provided items placed in the conference tote bag - Official support for your choice of (subject to availability): Doctoral Symposium, Poster Session, Keynotes, or support for 6 Student Volunteers named for your organization - Attendance (for two) at an invitation-only reception by the SPLASH General Chair - Choice of: one Full conference registration plus one complimentary main conference registration; or two complimentary main conference registrations plus one complimentary one-day pass registration ## Silver: $US 5000 Benefits: - Recognition as a supporter in print and on the web. Recognized as a Silver supporter on registration brochures and conference program - One company-provided item placed in the conference tote bag - Official support for your choice of: four Student Volunteers named for your organization; or the Keynotes (non-exclusive support) - Attendance (for two) at an invitation-only reception by the SPLASH General Chair - Your choice of: one Full conference registration; or one complimentary main conference registration plus one complimentary one-day pass registration; or three complimentary one-day pass registrations ## Bronze $US 3000 - Recognition as a supporter in print and on the web. Recognized as a Bronze supporter on registration brochures and conference program - One company-provided one-page insert placed in conference tote bag - Official support for two Student Volunteers named for your organization - Attendance (for one) at an invitation-only reception by the SPLASH General Chair - Your choice of: one complimentary main conference registration; or two complimentary one-day pass registrations # Why sponsor SPLASH? SPLASH values innovation, collaboration, and diversity. For many software researchers, academics, students, educators, and practitioners, SPLASH is the most important conference of the year. It is a place to: - improve skills and productivity, independent of any particular product or vendor; - gain a global perspective connecting with world experts; and - discover and explore new trends and innovations in leading edge research and practice. Becoming a SPLASH corporate supporter demonstrates your leadership and commitment to the community. It is an opportunity to: - carry your message to community leaders; - associate your brand with world-class research and development; - position your company as a leader in the field; and - prepare for the future. Your corporate name and logo will be in front of the entire community throughout the conference. For the same contribution you also receive either complimentary or discounted SPLASH registrations for use by your organization. You will also have the opportunity to participate in invitation-only events that will provide you with direct, one-on-one interactions with some key members of the SPLASH community. Thank you for your time! Please do not hesitate to contact us at support(a)splashcon.org. We look forward to helping you make the most of your investment in SPLASH. Jurgen Vinju SPLASH 2016 Sponsorship Chair Eelco Visser SPLASH 2016 General Chair

May 10, 2016

IWST16 deadline extension

by Anne Etien

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists] ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS IWST16 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Prague, Czech Republic; August 23th, 2016 http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/International-Workshop-IWST_… <http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/International-Workshop-IWST_…> ************************************************************************************************************ ------------------- Goals and scopes ------------------- The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints. We expect papers of three kinds: - Short position papers describing emerging ideas - Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. - Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application. We will not enforce any length restriction. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Submission deadline: May 22th, 2016 (firm date) Notification deadline: June 20th, 2016 Camera-ready : July 13th, 2016 Workshop : August 23th, 2016 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (To be confirmed) Best papers would be extended in an International Journal ------------------- Topics ------------------- 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 ------------------- Best Paper Award ------------------- To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST. We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be illegible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference. ------------------- Publication ------------------- Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm <http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm>. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. ------------------- Submission ------------------- All submissions must be sent via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst20160 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst20160> ------------------- Program chairs ------------------- Anne Etien (Université de Lille 1, France) Jannik Laval (Université Lyon 2 Lumière, France)

May 9, 2016

PhD Thesis offer

by jannik laval

Dear friends, I am looking for a french student (or someone speaking french) who wants to engage in a CIFRE PhD thesis (it is a thesis with a french company). The subject is attached to the mail. Best regards, -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ Enseignant-chercheur Responsable Pédagogique Licence Coordonnateur de Projet en Système d'Information IUT Lumière, Université Lyon Lumière laboratoire DISP http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://www.approchealpes.info

May 4, 2016

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May 4, 2016