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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - 31 May 2023
by Giovanni Corriga May 30, 2023

May 30, 2023

For our May presentation, Stephane Ducasse will present the vision behind Pharo and how that is been implemented incrementally across multiple releases. In Stef's words: "The vision of Pharo is based on three pillars: - First we want to make sure that Pharo is used to develop complex and robust systems (by complex we means multiple millions lines of code or objects). - Second we want Pharo to be a modular system that can be versatile (Pharo on iot, on large servers, in the web browser….) - Third Pharo should be an evolvable system that can adapt to new needs (modular tools, first class slot, new debuggers, packages…). Sometimes it can be unclear that we follow this vision but over the years we are delivering this vision and we will continue. In this talk I will briefly recall the vision behind Pharo and show the achievements so far. I will show that our development is heavily backed by tests. In the second part of the talk I will focus on the current effort to improve the user interface. I will show that the reimplementation of the Spec UI framework is a cornerstone of the future replacement of Morphic and use of GTK. I will also answer questions about Pharo 11 and Pharo 12." Stephane is an Inria Research Director, currently lead the RMoD team ( http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/ ). Stef is an expert in language design, software quality, program understanding, program visualisations, reengineering and metamodeling. Among his contributions we can list: traits (implemented in Pharo, Perl, PHP and other languages); Moose, an open-source software analysis platform ( http://www.moosetechnology.org/ ). Stef is one of the leaders of Pharo ( http://www.pharo.org/ ), a dynamic reflective object-oriented language supporting live programming, and of the industrial Pharo consortium ( https://consortium.pharo.org/ ). Stef works regularly with companies such as Thales, Wordline, Siemens, Berger-Levrault, Arolla, and others on their software evolution problems. Stef has authored a couple hundred articles ( http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/Publications.html ) and several books ( http://books.pharo.org/ ). This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/293473947/ ) to receive the meeting details.

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About ESUG 2023
by stephane ducasse May 29, 2023

May 29, 2023

Hi guys Just a little overview I found about the city of Lyon. I know the city and it is cool but the videos is quite nice. https://en.lyon-france.com/ 2 hours by train from Paris 3 hours by train from Lille 2 hours from Geneva direct train from Brussels 2 hours from Marseille … Do not forget to register at https://registration.esug.org/ESUG S.

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Why ESUG 2023 will be great :)
by stephane ducasse May 28, 2023

May 28, 2023

because 2022 and 2019 were great https://youtu.be/xqshh2t_1sM ESUG2019 Trailer youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p-AkoHjRVk ESUG 2022 highlights youtube.com

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Talk next wednesday
by stephane ducasse May 27, 2023

May 27, 2023

Hello I will give a presentation with discussion via the UK smalltalk online gathering next wednesday. https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/293473947/ MeetupStephane Ducasse - Pharo: a vision implemented step by step, Wed, M...For our May presentation, Stephane Ducasse will present the vision behind Pharo and how that is been implemented incrementally across multiple releases. In Stef's words: " For our May presentation, Stephane Ducasse will present the vision behind Pharo and how that is been implemented incrementally across multiple releases. In Stef's words: "The vision of Pharo is based on three pillars: • First we want to make sure that Pharo is used to develop complex and robust systems (by complex we means multiple millions lines of code or objects). • Second we want Pharo to be a modular system that can be versatile (Pharo on iot, on large servers, in the web browser….) • Third Pharo should be an evolvable system that can adapt to new needs (modular tools, first class slot, new debuggers, packages…). Stef

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Fwd: 📅 Just scheduled: Stephane Ducasse - Pharo: a vision implemented step by step
by stephane ducasse May 24, 2023

May 24, 2023

Hi guys I will present some points around Pharo and P11 in particular For our May presentation, Stephane Ducasse will present the vision behind Pharo and how that is been implemented incrementally across multiple releases. In Stef's words: "The vision of Pharo is based on three pillars: - First we want to make sure that Pharo is used to develop complex and robust systems (by complex we means multiple millions lines of code or objects). - Second we want Pharo to be a modular system that can be versatile (Pharo on iot, on large servers, in the web browser….) - Third Pharo should be an evolvable system that can adapt to new needs (modular tools, first class slot, new debuggers, packages…). Sometimes it can be unclear that we follow this vision but over the years we are delivering this vision and we will continue. In this talk I will briefly recall the vision behind Pharo and show the achievements so far. I will show that our development is heavily backed by tests. In the second part of the talk I will focus on the current effort to improve the user interface. I will show that the reimplementation of the Spec UI framework is a cornerstone of the future replacement of Morphic and use of GTK. I will also answer questions about Pharo 11 and Pharo 12." > Begin forwarded message: > > From: UK Smalltalk User Group <info(a)email.meetup.com> > Subject: 📅 Just scheduled: Stephane Ducasse - Pharo: a vision implemented step by step > Date: 24 May 2023 at 01:37:08 CEST > To: stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr > > > <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > UK Smalltalk User Group <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> scheduled a new event > > <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > Stephane Ducasse - Pharo: a vision implemented step by step <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > Wednesday, may 31, 2023 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM > Online event > RSVP now <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > Details: For our May presentation, Stephane Ducasse will present the vision behind Pharo and how that is been implemented incrementally across multiple releases. In Stef's words: "The vision of Pharo is based on three pillars: - First we want to make sure that Pharo is used to develop complex and robust systems (by complex we means multiple millions lin... > Hosted by: > gcorriga > > More events recommended for you: > <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > Reclaiming Your Power: A Woman's Journey to Healing from Narcissistic Abuse <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > Midlife Reinvention For Women Meetup Group > <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > Meet up for wives of tech entrepreneurs <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > Wives network of London based tech entrepreneurs > <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > Free Property Investment Training - Meet and Greet <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> > FREE Property Investing Training > <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpZmev6DrQOwiRvx…> <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=8Y2vsX5dSU9BIj3r0FDX3kuj5bdG4U9taHSR2…> > You received this message because you are a registered member of Meetup. > Unsubscribe <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…> from this type of email. Manage your settings <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=8Y2vsX5dSU9BIj3r0FDX3hKPTxoZ-2F4CoTjt…>for all types of email updates. > Visit a your account page <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=8Y2vsX5dSU9BIj3r0FDX3hKPTxoZ-2F4CoTjt…> to change your contact details, privacy settings, and other settings. > Meetup LLC <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=8Y2vsX5dSU9BIj3r0FDX3lSPClZdoQRTM87Zc…>, POB 4668 #37895 NY NY USA 10163 > Read our Privacy Policy <http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4Czod…>.

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Fwd: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo 11 Released !
by stephane ducasse May 14, 2023

May 14, 2023

Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: We have released Pharo <https://pharo.org/> version 11! What is Pharo? Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the way down. Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger unlike anything you've seen before. It allows you to step through code, restart the execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> License and available on GitHub <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo> ... more on the Pharo Features page <http://www.pharo.org/features>. In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number of usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and improvements is available in our Changelog <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo110Chang…> Some highlights of this amazing version: Highlights Tools Iceberg (the git client/VCS control tool) has received a lot of tweaks and fixes to work better with GitHub and other Git services. Our debugger now incorporates lots of tweaks and notably the capability of adding bindings in the context interaction model. The is a new implementation of rewrite tools and improved refactoring support. There is a new tool: The Document Browser, which presents Microdown (markdown compatible) documents placed on the web or locally. New Tools presented in Calypso (the System Browser) and additional extended Inspectors. All versions of NewTools, Spec, Roassal and Microdown have been updated with their respective bug fixes and improvements. System Extended Full Blocks and Constant Clock closures support. Additional Inlining and optimizations Bug Fixes and Clean up. Ephemeron Finalization support. Virtual machine Ephemerons Production Ready. Initial support for Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD). Third-Party Dependency Update (Newer versions, Graphic Libraries using Hardware Acceleration). Clean Ups: Remove lots of old code, notably old experiments, and dead code. Development Effort This new version is the result of 1412 Pull Requests integrated just in the Pharo repository. We have closed 972 issues and received contributions from more than 70 different contributors. We have also a lot of work in the separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools> http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser> http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec <https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec> http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg <https://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg> http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3 <https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3> http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown <https://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown> http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments <https://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments> http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm> Contributors We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our great community (yourself). A large community of people from all around the world contributed to Pharo 11.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful tasks in all our community channels. Thank you all for your contributions. The Pharo Team Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation

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[IWST 2023]Call for Papers
by Gocrdana Rakic May 14, 2023

May 14, 2023

Call For Papers IWST 2023: International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies /Lyon, France; August 29th-31st, 2023/ */Goals and scope/* The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around contributions and experiences in building or using technologies related to Smalltalk. While maturity of presented ideas and results is not crucial, it is expected that their presentation trigger discussion and exchange of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Authors are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. *Important Dates* * Submission deadline: May 14th, 2023 * Notification deadline: June 11th, 2023 * Re-submission deadline: July 1st, 2023 * Workshop: August 29th-31st, 2023 *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 *Submissions, reviews, and selection* We are looking for papers of two kinds: * Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results. * Long research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the CEUR ART 1-column style <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. All submissions must be sent via EasyChair submission page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst23>. *Reviewing* Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Selected papers will be invited to be presented at the workshop in Lyon and published in the CEUR-WS Proceedings <https://ceur-ws.org/>. As the workshop form encourage bringing fresh ideas and early results to be presented and discussed, and aims for giving a chance to young community members to learn and grow, it may happen that submissions with discussion potential be conditionally accepted. In this case authors are expected to strictly follow the recommendation of the reviewers and resubmit a new version for the second fast review by the chairs in collaboration with assigned reviewers, and for making the final decision. **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 our financial contributors who make it possible for prizes for the three best papers (estimated): 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 eligible, 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. *Program chairs* * Stephane Ducasse, Inria Lille, France (chair), * Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (chair) *Program committee* * Nour Agouf, Inria Lille, France, * Vincent Blondeau, Lifeware, Switzerland, * Cedrick Beler, Ecole Nationale d Ingenieurs de Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrenees, France, * Nicolas Cardozo, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, * Celine Deknop, Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, * Michele Lanza, Software Institute, Universita della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, * Eric Lepors, Thales DMS, France, * Dave Mason, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, * Kim Mens, Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, * Ana-Maria Oprescu, University of Amsterdam, Neatherlands, * Jean Privat, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, * Pooja Rani, University of Bern, Switzerland, * Larisa Safina, Inria Lille, France, * Joao Saraiva, University of Minho, Portugal, * Benoît Verhaeghe, Berger-Levrault, Lyon, France, * Oleksandr Zaytsev, Cirad, UMR SENS, France

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ESUG Presentation deadline is 1st of JUNE!
by stephane ducasse May 1, 2023

May 1, 2023

Hello people do not wait the last moment, it will help the organizers. ESUG 2023 Call for Presentations 28.8.2023 to 01.9.2023 Lyon France https://esug.github.io <https://esug.github.io/> https://esug.github.io/2023-Conference/conf2023.html Deadline for submission is 1 st of June! ESUG is the premium and fun conference around smalltalk technologies. You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: - Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ - Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below. - Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (180 people at Koln 2019)! - Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. ## Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hands-on tutorials. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: - XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports - Model driven development, Web development, Team management - Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries & frameworks - Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics - SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages - Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business New this year!!! We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and show us your projects sessions. Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated. ### How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2023-Conference/talks [Or but only if you are not connected to the world… send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>] Title: [ESUG 2023] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio: Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list-leave@lists.esug.org>

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ESUG 2023 student volunteer program!
by stephane ducasse May 1, 2023

May 1, 2023

Please distribute to the community and more Call for Student Volunteers Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Conference details: Send an email to stephane.ducasse at inria.fr <http://inria.fr/> and Oleksandr Zaitsev <olk.zaytsev(a)gmail.com <mailto:olk.zaytsev@gmail.com>> with: Title: [ESUG 2023 Student] name, gender, university/school, country, email address short description of you and why you are interested in participating For which period is accommodation covered? Accommodation is covered from Sunday 27.8.2023 to 01.9.2023 (including nights from Sunday to Monday and from Thursday to Friday). Students will be hosted in student rooms. ESUG additionally covers for the lunches during the week and one dinner. Duties include handling registration as people arrive at the conference, filling coffee machines, collecting presentation slides for ESUG right after the presentation is given, being present at an information desk to answer questions, and generally being helpful. Student volunteering makes the conference better, takes a fairly small amount of time and doesn't significantly interfere with enjoying and learning from the conference. Please Note, this role requires discipline and constant attention to all attendees. Information about hotel Student Volunteer rooms are booked at (to be announced). If you are student volunteer, do not book yourself, we have arranged the booking already! _______________________________________________

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