September 2018 - Esug-list

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] Gemstone as a service?
by James Foster Sept. 16, 2018

Sept. 16, 2018

My ESUG presentation (based on recent screencasts at https://www.youtube.com/user/JamesGFoster/videos <https://www.youtube.com/user/JamesGFoster/videos>) culminated with a live hands-on opportunity for people to connect to a cloud-hosted GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.4.2 server. As I expected, the question came up of future prospects for a real GaaS offering. So far I’m not aware of anyone with official plans in this space, but I’m personally interested in exploring the idea. Two questions arise from the point-of-view of any potential provider: (1) what is the demand; and (2) what would it look like from an operational perspective. So, in order to better answer those questions I’d like to get in touch with people who would like to try out a GaaS solution. If I provide a dev/test environment for 45 days, will you will give me feedback? If you are interested, please respond privately with (a) your GemStone/S version (preferably 3.4.2), (b) the size of your repository (preferable less than 32 GB, ideally 8 GB or less), (c) what client IDE you use to interact with GemStone, and (d) a sorted list of preferred/acceptable server locations (from Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto). Thanks! James > On Aug 18, 2018, at 6:11 PM, Andy Burnett <andy.burnett(a)knowinnovation.com> wrote: > > Hello, > I was wondering if anyone offers GaaS? I would love to be able to just focus on writing code, and leave the system management to others. Gemstone does seem to offer a very complete package. > > Also, does anyone know what's happening with Pharocloud? The site is still running, but it seems to be very quiet. > > Cheers > Andy

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[REMINDER] Pharo BOF at the end of today's session
by Esteban Lorenzano Sept. 13, 2018

Sept. 13, 2018

See you there! Esteban

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another Caffeine meetup at ESUG 2018 today
by Craig Latta Sept. 13, 2018

Sept. 13, 2018

Hey all, there will be another Caffeine meetup today at 4pm in the Aula Aura (largest) room. We'll have VR headsets, and we'll discuss non-graphical stuff too. Please come! thanks again, -C -- Craig Latta Black Page Digital Amsterdam :: San Francisco craig(a)blackpagedigital.com +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok) + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS)

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Caffeine BOF at ESUG 2018
by Craig Latta Sept. 11, 2018

Sept. 11, 2018

Hi all-- If you're attending the ESUG 2018 conference this week, please come to the Caffeine birds-of-a-feather meeting, on Wednesday at 4pm in the Corner Room. We'll have some fun with livecoding Smalltalk in web browsers (including in 3D VR headsets) with https://caffeine.js.org/. (The repo is at https://github.com/ccrraaiigg/ccrraaiigg.github.io/.) thanks! -C -- Craig Latta Black Page Digital Amsterdam :: San Francisco craig(a)blackpagedigital.com +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok) + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS)

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Call for Papers: <Programming> 2019
by Pape, Tobias Sept. 10, 2018

Sept. 10, 2018

<Programming> 2019 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 1-4, 2019, Genova, Italy http://2019.programming-conference.org The International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming is a new conference focused on programming topics including the experience of programming. We have named it <Programming> for short. <Programming> seeks for papers that advance knowledge of programming on any relevant topic, including programming practice and experience. Paper submissions and publications are handled by the the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming journal (http://programming-journal.org) Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** <Programming> 2019 accepts scholarly papers that advance knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: October 1, 2018 URL FOR SUBMISSIONS: http://programming-journal.org/submission/ Submissions covering several areas of expertise are accepted, including but not limited to: • General-purpose programming • Distributed systems programming • Parallel and multi-core programming • Graphics and GPU programming • Security programming • User interface programming • Database programming • Visual and live programming • Data mining and machine learning programming • Interpreters, virtual machines and compilers • Modularity and separation of concerns • Model-based development • Metaprogramming and reflection • Testing and debugging • Program verification • Programming education • Programming environments • Social coding ******************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************************************** Research paper submissions: October 1, 2018 Research paper first notifications: December 1, 2018 Research paper final notifications: January 7, 2019 ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Davide Ancona, University of Genova Local Organizing Chair: Elena Zucca, University of Genova Program Chair: Matthew Flatt, University of Utah Organizing Committee: Walter Cazzola (Workshops Co-Chair), Università degli Studi di Milano Stefan Marr (Workshops Co-Chair), University of Kent Fabio Niephaus (Publicity Co-Chair), Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam Guido Salvaneschi (Publicity Co-Chair), Darmstadt University of Technology Tobias Pape (Web Technology Chair), Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam Program Committee: Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Oakland University Walter Cazzola, Università degli Studi di Milano Ravi Chugh, University of Chicago Joeri De Koster, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Christos Dimoulas, Northwestern University Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford Michael Greenberg, Pomona College Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, University of Potsdam Eunsuk Kang, Carnegie Mellon University Stephen Kell, University of Cambridge Stefan Marr, University of Kent Tamara Rezk, Inria Joshua Sunshine, Carnegie Mellon University Steffen Zschaler, King's College London ******************************************************** <Programming> 2019 is kindly supported by AOSA ******************************************************** For more information, visit http://2019.programming-conference.org -- Tobias Pape Software Architecture Group | http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/ Future SOC Lab | https://hpi.de/future-soc-lab Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH | Universität Potsdam Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany Amtsgericht Potsdam, HRB 12184 | Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

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GemStone BOF at ESUG on Wednesday afternoon?
by James Foster Sept. 10, 2018

Sept. 10, 2018

I’ve had a few people express interest in having a GemStone BOF this week. We’ve agreed that it would be better after noon on Wednesday since some questions might be addressed in talks before then. I suggest Wednesday at 3:30 pm (or after the last presentation) since there are a few hours before the social. Depending on people’s needs, we can try to avoid the Pharo BOF. James Foster GemTalk Systems LLC

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Internet of Things in Smalltalk - meeting proposal
by Cédrick Béler Sept. 10, 2018

Sept. 10, 2018

Hi, We will have a meeting Tuesday afternoon on IoT at esug. More info later to see how we organize that. Should be after « show us your project » around 5 or 6 am. More info later especially on where the meeting will take place (might be around the beach). See you later for those interested (maybe answer there so that we can count and find an appropriate place). Cheers, Cedrick

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Camp Smalltalk Sunday in Cagliari
by Cédrick Béler Sept. 10, 2018

Sept. 10, 2018

Hi all, Just to inform that a Camp Smalltalk will be at the terrace of the Caffè delle Arti starting at 10am. Caffè delle Arti Via del Fossario, 1, 09124 Cagliari CA, Italie +39 392 396 3958 https://goo.gl/maps/WMRhdSCeZL62 Feel free to join

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Re: [Esug-list] Anyone arriving in Cagliari for the weekend?
by Boris Shingarov Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

Still stuck in FRA but will be in Cagliari this afternoon.On Sep 6, 2018 8:11 PM, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni(a)corriga.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > If anyone of those attending ESUG 2018 is planning to arrive early and wants to meet other Smalltalkers, there are already a few of us here. > > Please drop me a message and we can organise something. > > Cheers, > > Giovanni

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Camp Smalltalk at T Hotel
by Philippe Marschall Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

Hello There is an unofficial CampSmalltalk at the lobby of the T Hotel for anybody that wants to join us. Cheers Philippe

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] CampSmalltalk
by Sebastian Heidbrink Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

Thank you, Norbert! Cool! No Facebook products here .... CU Monday! Sebastian On 2018-09-08 9:55 a.m., Norbert Hartl wrote: > Everyone can join > > https://chat.whatsapp.com/0nTMloTTddg40tRvu9hXLv > > There are people in cagliari already. Sadly I won‘t be there before monday > > Norbert > > Am 08.09.2018 um 07:57 schrieb Joachim Tuchel <jtuchel(a)objektfabrik.de > <mailto:jtuchel@objektfabrik.de>>: > >> Waiting at the baggage claim ;-) >> >>> Am 08.09.2018 um 05:41 schrieb Sebastian Heidbrink <sheidev(a)yahoo.de >>> <mailto:sheidev@yahoo.de>>: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I just found out that there is a dedicated ESUG mailing list.... ta taa! >>> >>> I arrived in Cagliari for ESUG 2018 and I am wondering where >>> CampSmalltalk will take place this weekend. >>> >>> Anybody in town already? >>> >>> CU! >>> >>> Kind wishes, >>> >>> Sebastian >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>

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Whatsapp group for the conference
by Stephan Eggermont Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

https://chat.whatsapp.com/0nTMloTTddg40tRvu9hXLv

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CampSmalltalk
by Sebastian Heidbrink Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

Hi! I just found out that there is a dedicated ESUG mailing list.... ta taa! I arrived in Cagliari for ESUG 2018 and I am wondering where CampSmalltalk will take place this weekend. Anybody in town already? CU! Kind wishes, Sebastian

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ESUG details
by David Mason Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

What is the best way to get from the airport to the event? I arrive about 9:00, Sunday morning, and can’t get into my AirBNB until 15:00, so thought I’d hang out at Camp Smalltalk. Thanks ../Dave

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Re: [Esug-list] CampSmalltalk
by Joachim Tuchel Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

Waiting at the baggage claim ;-) > Am 08.09.2018 um 05:41 schrieb Sebastian Heidbrink <sheidev(a)yahoo.de>: > > Hi! > > I just found out that there is a dedicated ESUG mailing list.... ta taa! > > I arrived in Cagliari for ESUG 2018 and I am wondering where CampSmalltalk will take place this weekend. > > Anybody in town already? > > CU! > > Kind wishes, > > Sebastian > > > >

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Anyone arriving in Cagliari for the weekend?
by Giovanni Corriga Sept. 7, 2018

Sept. 7, 2018

Hi all, If anyone of those attending ESUG 2018 is planning to arrive early and wants to meet other Smalltalkers, there are already a few of us here. Please drop me a message and we can organise something. Cheers, Giovanni

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[ESUG conference] What are the prerequisites for teh "AI for Dummies" tutorial
by jtuchel＠objektfabrik.de Sept. 7, 2018

Sept. 7, 2018

Hi, I wonder what I should have pre-installed for Alexandre's tutorial on Monday afternoon. Which Pharo version, Tensorflow (where to get etc.) whatever. Or is this going to be a slide-show only? Joachim

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Coming to Cagliari
by David Gorisek Sept. 7, 2018

Sept. 7, 2018

Hello, are there any other Smalltalkers taking the flight from Rome to Cagliari on Sunday evening with departure at 17:15 from Rome and arrival to Cagliari at 18:25 ? See you there!

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Why being a Pharo Association Member matters?
by Stéphane Ducasse Sept. 6, 2018

Sept. 6, 2018

Hi Pharo supporters First I would like thank you. And I would like to show you that your membership in the Pharo association is really helping Pharo. We are creating a precise report but the main message is the same. You concretely help Pharo. First, we would like to really thank you for your support because as you will see it is important. Your contributions are making an impact. Until now, the association did not make visible how was spent the money from your membership. It's time to fix this. In the first place, the support we got from last year enable the creation of monthly activities helping with the development of Pharo. The association is now the support for the following ones: Sprint organisations: Every month sprints to correct Pharo bugs are organised. You can join remotely or organise one at your location TechTalks: Every month a technical talk is been done to give visibility on Pharo process and Pharo projects and interact with the community to get feedback Next, your association contributions are securing vital Pharo infrastructures. It pays: The domains such as pharo.org. The hosting files.pharo.org: This year we moved out of Inria infrastructure because we could not identify the cause of a huge network latency. It got resolved - it was a fiber which was in bad condition but not cut. This was fixed at the level of Renater national back-bone layer, but we decided to stay outside. We plan to migrate to a better service. The wild apricot software which manages the association. It will enable us to do more with the association. (40$/month) The newsletter via Mailchimp. This newsletter is a real success with more than 2300 recipients . You get see the archive at https://us11.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=6f667565c2569234585a7be77&id=0486… <https://us11.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=6f667565c2569234585a7be77&id=0486…> (30$/month) The mailing-lists are managed with Mailname a professional service. On another note, we would like to remember the advantages of being an association member: Reduction for the PharoDays Offer access to PharoCloud (which is currently under redesign) 20% Discount on the printed book Learning Object-Oriented Programming, Design with TDD in Pharo <http://books.pharo.org/learning-oop/> Possibility to be listed as a Pharo consultant (Require gold membership) -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 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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[NGPS at SAC 2019] extended submission deadline Sept 24
by Nick Papoylias Sept. 4, 2018

Sept. 4, 2018

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Generation Programming Paradigms and Systems (NGPS 2019) Track of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing Limassol, Cyprus https://ngps2019.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES *Sept 24, 2018 (extended)* Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts *Nov 24, 2018 (extended)* Notification of paper acceptance/rejection *Nov 24, 2018 (extended)* Notification of SRC acceptance/rejection *Dec 10, 2018 (extended)* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC Dec 10, 2018 Author registration due date April 8-12, 2019 ACM SAC Conference AIMS AND TOPICS The complexity of modern software systems is continuously growing together with the communication capabilities and computational power of pervasive technology, embodied by a wide range of interacting heterogeneous smart devices. This new scenario is posing serious challenges to software development, which hardly keeps pace with this technological evolution. Sophisticated frameworks exposed through application programming interfaces, or directly integrated with mainstream programming languages provide partial solutions to support big data streaming and complex analytic; dynamic, autonomous, and collective coordination and adaptation capabilities; emergent behavior in cooperating systems; Internet of Things (IoT) systems development and maintenance; and employment of cloud platforms and parallel architectures, in particular heterogeneous ones. This calls for new abstractions, features, middlewares and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of designing and developing the next generation software systems, improving performance, and ensuring reliability and security. To this aim, NGPS is seeking to advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice of computational models and paradigms, formal techniques and software methods for easing software development and verification, and improving efficiency of complex modern systems. The specific topics of interest for the NGPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: - Integration of computational paradigms - Runtime verification and monitoring - Platforms for the Cloud - IoT systems - Secure and dependable software - Formal models and verification - Testing and debugging - System evaluation - Design, implementation and optimization of high-level programming languages - Middleware platforms - Scenarios, case studies and experience reports on innovative applications - High-level parallel programming - Distributed systems and concurrency - Development tools - Coordination models, specification, and technologies - Multi-agent systems, mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Models, frameworks and tools for Collective Adaptive Systems - Internet, Web, and pervasive computing systems - Self-organizing, self-adaptive, context-aware and nature-inspired systems - Security, trust and privacy management SUBMISSIONS Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2019 home page. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. SAC 2019 will use double-blind reviewing; to facilitate this, author name(s) and institution(s) must be omitted, and references to authors’ own related work should be in the third person. The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style. Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages at additional fee of US$80 per page. Papers accepted as posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee of US$80. SRC abstracts are limited to 4 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 10, 2018. For more information please visit the SAC 2019 home page. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. TRACK CO-CHAIRS Davide Ancona, DIBRIS, University of Genova, IT Frederic Loulergue, SICCS, Northern Arizona University, USA Danilo Pianini, DISI, University of Bologna, IT Mirko Viroli, DISI, University of Bologna, IT PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mohamad Al Hajj Hassan, Huawei, DE Victor Allombert, Orléans University, FR Lorenzo Bettini, DISIA, University of Florence, IT Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick, DE João Costa Seco, New University of Lisbon, PT Hélène Coullon, IMT Atlantique, Inria, FR Ferruccio Damiani, DI, University of Torino, IT Simon Dobson, CS, University of St Andrews, UK Kento Emoto, IPL-Lab, Kyushu Institute of Technology, JP Erik Ernst, Google Inc., USA Lukas Esterle, ALICE, Aston University, UK Frédéric Gava, LACL, Université Paris-Est Créteil, FR Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE Khaled Hamidouche AMD Research, USA Geoff Hamilton, School of Computing, Dublin City University, IE Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, University of Potsdam, DE Hideya Iwasaki, The University of Electro-Communications, JP Einar Broch Johnsen, UiO, University of Oslo, NO Jaakko Järvi, II, University of Bergen, NO Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Alberto Lluch Lafuente, DTU COMPUTE, Technical University of Denmark, DK Michele Loreti, DI, University of Camerino, IT Hidehiko Masuhara, PRG, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP Virginia Niculescu, CS, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, RO Tobias Pape, HPI, University of Potsdam, DE Nick Papoulias, University of La Rochelle, UMR LIENSs, CNRS, FR Susanna Pelegatti, University of Pisa, IT António Ravara, DI FCT, New University of Lisbon, PT Barbara Re, SST, University of Camerino, IT Sophie Robert, LIFO, Orléans University, FR Stefan Rudolph, OC, Augsburg University, DE Maurice ter Beek, FMT-ISTI, CNR, IT Martin Wirsing, SoSy-Lab, LMU Munich, DE

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Only 7 days lefts before the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards
by N. Bouraqadi Sept. 3, 2018

Sept. 3, 2018

Hi Everyone, The 15th Edition of the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards will take place in only one week. You have only few days left to submit your projects. Remember: Any project is eligible as long as it involves Smalltalk. All dialects are of course welcome. See you in Sardinia, Noury https://esug.github.io/2018-Conference/awardsCall2018.html

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