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On VisualWorks
by Maarten Mostert Feb. 28, 2017

Feb. 28, 2017

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Pharo days 2017 at Lille: block the dates 18/19 of May
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 24, 2017

Feb. 24, 2017

Dear Smalltalkers I’m happy to tell you that we will organise a new edition of the PharoDays at Lille the 18 et 19 of May. The program and registration will be announced soon. The setup will be similar to the ones of previous editions: Little cool presentations and hacking/discussions sessions and a great social event. https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/pharo-days-2016-c52fe4d7caf#.mqurj6rvi <https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/pharo-days-2016-c52fe4d7caf#.mqurj6rvi> So reserve the dates. S. PS: for students, we got some sponsoring from inria and cristal and if you need support let us know. -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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Seeking support: Vote for Jigyasa Grover for Red Hat International Women in Open Source Academic Awards 2017
by Jigyasa Grover Feb. 17, 2017

Feb. 17, 2017

Dear All It feels delighted to be nominated as finalist for *Red Hat International Women in Open Source Academic Awards 2017* owing to my significant contributions to the open source community spanning various organisations & projects viz FOSSASIA, Pharo/Smalltalk, European Smalltalk Users Group (ESUG), Hashkat, Women Who Code, Google Developers Group, Learn IT Girl!, various tech stints in Canada, Europe, Singapore & India, etc. and everyone's best wishes. After initial two rounds, final voting round is open now till March 6, 2017. I request and appeal all of you to kindly bless me with your valuable votes. Folks, Some love & maximum clicks please :wink: Details: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source Vote here: https://engage.redhat.com/opensourceawards-winners-votingform-2017 -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Seeking-support-Vote-for-Jigyasa-Grover-for-Red-Hat-I… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting
by Giovanni Corriga Feb. 14, 2017

Feb. 14, 2017

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, February 27th. We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House ( http://www.the-counting-house.com/) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/ UKSTUG/events/236496720/ . See you there! (apologies if you have received this message twice)

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by Giovanni Corriga Feb. 14, 2017

Feb. 14, 2017

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, February 27th. We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House ( http://www.the-counting-house.com/) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/236496720/ . See you there!

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[ANN] Camp Smalltalk In Raleigh NC
by denker Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

Posted for Donald MacQueen [|]: Instantiations is sponsoring a Camp Smalltalk In Raleigh NC the end of March. We would like to invite you to Camp Smalltalk - RDU, March 31st – April 2nd 2017 in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Event details and registration info are available at www.campsmalltalk-rdu.com <http://www.campsmalltalk-rdu.com/>. There will be a demonstration of VA Smalltalk running on the Raspberry Pi. Hope to see you there! -- Donald [|] A bad day in [] is better than a good day in {}.

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1st CfP: SLE 2017 (10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering)
by Andrei Chis Feb. 9, 2017

Feb. 9, 2017

======================================================================== **Call for Papers** 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2017) 23-24 October 2017, Vancouver, Canada (Co-located with SPLASH 2017) General chair: Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France Program co-chairs: Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Artifact evaluation chairs Tanja Mayerhofer, TU Wien, Austria Laurence Tratt, King's College London, UK http://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers http://www.sleconf.org/2017 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ======================================================================== Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term "software language" is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). ### Important Dates Fri 2 Jun 2017 - Abstract Submission Fri 9 Jun 2017 - Paper Submission Fri 4 Aug 2017 - Author Notification Thu 10 Aug 2017 - Artifact Submission Fri 1 Sep 2017 - Artifact Notification Fri 8 Sep 2017 - Camera Ready Deadline Sun 22 Oct - SLE workshops Mon 23 Oct - Tue 24 Oct 2017 - SLE Conference ### Topics of Interest SLE aims to be broad-minded and inclusive about relevance and scope. We solicit high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. In particular, SLE is interested in principled engineering approaches and techniques in the following areas: * Language Design and Implementation * Approaches and methodologies for language design * Static semantics (e.g., design rules, well-formedness constraints) * Techniques for behavioral / executable semantics * Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) * Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Language Validation * Verification and formal methods for languages * Testing techniques for languages * Simulation techniques for languages * Language Integration and Composition * Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools * Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) * Traceability between languages * Deployment of languages to different platforms * Language Maintenance * Software language reuse * Language evolution * Language families and variability * Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) * Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools * User studies evaluating usability * Performance benchmarks * Industrial applications ### Types of Submissions * **Research papers**: These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) * **Tool papers**: Because of SLE's interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” in the title. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. The 6-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. * **Industrial papers**: These should describe real-world application scenarios of SLE in industry, explained in their context with an analysis of the challenges that were overcome and the lessons which the audience can learn from this experience. Industry paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) * **New ideas / vision papers**: New ideas papers should describe new, non-conventional SLE research approaches that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. Vision papers are intended to present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 4 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) ### Artifact evaluation Authors of accepted papers at SLE 2017 are encouraged to submit their experiment results used for underpinning research statements to an artifact evaluation process. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully receive a seal of approval printed on the first page of the paper in the proceedings. Authors of papers with accepted artifacts are encouraged to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. ### Publications All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers, including tool papers, industrial papers and new ideas / vision papers will be published in ACM Digital Library. Selected accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of the Computer Languages, Systems and Structures (COMLAN) journal. ### Awards * **Distinguished paper**: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the program committee. * **Distinguished reviewer**: Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs using feedback from the authors. * **Distinguished artifact**: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. ### Program Committee Marjan Mernik (co-chair), University of Maribor, Slovenia Bernhard Rumpe (co-chair), RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Jordi Cabot, ICREA, Spain Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Tom Dinkelaker, Ericsson, Germany Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Sebastian Gerard, CEA, France Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA Esther Guerra, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Michael Homer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Tihamer Levendovszky, Microsoft, USA Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada Terence Parr, University of San Francisco, USA Jaroslav Porubän, University of Košice, Slovakia Jan Ringert, Tel Aviv University, Israel Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada Tony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia Eugene Syriani, University of Montreal, Canada Emma Söderberg, Google, Denmark Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Jurgen Vinju, CWI, Netherlands Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State University, USA Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Tian Zhang, Nanjing University, China ### Contact For any question, please contact the organizers via email: sle2017(a)inria.fr

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