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UKSTUG Meeting - Maximiliano Tabacman: Electronic Roleplaying Assistant - 27 March 2024

by Giovanni Corriga

In this presentation, Maximiliano Tabacman will be presenting the main features, abstractions and design decisions behind ERA, the Electronic Roleplaying Assistant ( https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/137825/ERA-for-Rolemaster ). ERA is currently being used to create characters and manage the adventures of many gaming groups across the world, supporting Navigator RPG, Against the Darkmaster, Rolemaster Classic, Rolemaster Fantasy and Rolemaster Unified. We will review how Pharo allows creating a deployed version that runs locally in Linux, Mac and Windows, while Digital Ocean and Auth0 allow running an online server with different user roles. https://pharo.org/success/RolPlayingAssistant.html We will also mention how ERA makes use of the different frameworks developed and maintained by the Buenos Aires Smalltalk group, hosted at Github. Maximiliano Tabacman ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximiliano-tabacman-9aa4b817b/ ) is a long time Smalltalker with a Phd from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a Software architect at Mercap, executive secretary at FAST and creator of ERA. 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/299364517/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

March 19, 2024

IWST 24 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Lille, France; July 8th to 11th, 2024

by Steven Costiou

IWST 24 Information and Call For Papers IWST 24 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Lille, France; July 8th to 11th, 2024 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 triggers 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 * Extended abstract submission deadline: *March 31st, 2024* * Extended abstract notification deadline: April 7th, 2024 * Full/short paper submission deadline: May 19th, 2024 * Full/short paper first-round notification deadline: June 30th, 2024 * Workshop: July 9-10, 2024 * Full/short paper resubmission deadline: July 21st, 2024 * Full/short paper final notification deadline: July 31st, 2024 * Camera ready package submission deadline: August 25th, 2024 Topics We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: * Code Analysis * Automated Testing * Debugging * Compilers, Virtual Machines and Language implementations * Meta-programming and Meta-modeling * Refactorings * Design patterns * Experience reports * Libraries and frameworks * New dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk * Interaction and integration with other languages * Tools Submissions, reviews, and selection Authors interetsed to present their work at the IWST 2024 are invited to submit an abstract of the intended talk before the extended abstract submission deadline. The extended abstract should be not longer than 2 pages following the CEUR ART style <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. Author of the submitted extended abstratcs will be notified and invited to present their work by the extended abstract notification deadline which enables presenters to register at the early registration prices. Authors of the accepted abstracts are also invited to submit a paper to be subject of the review and a potential acceptance for publishing in the IWST 2024 Proceedings. We are looking for papers of two kinds: * Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results. * Full research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a CEUR-WS Proceedings <cid:part1.33sxixjP.5M6YTbsC@inria.fr>. Hence, both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the CEUR ART style <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. All submissions must be sent via EasyChair submission page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2024>. Pay attention, for organisation constraints, when submitting your article you are expected to register to the conference and pay the conference fees. Reviewing As the workshop format encourages 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, we will allow submissions with a discussion potential to be conditionally accepted. In this case, authors are expected to follow the recommendation of the reviewers. Consequently, the reviewing process will be organized in two rounds: * in the first round, all submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Based on these reviews authors will receive a notification with reviewers comments, advises, and requirements and papers that are not rejected will be invited to be resubmitted in an improved form together with change log and answrers to the reviewers. * in the second round, PC chairs in collaboration with the reviewers where needed and possible, will evaluate the improved paper version and notifiy authors about final decision on acceptance/rejection. *Best Paper Award* To encourage the submission of high-quality ideas, contributions, and papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Award competition in the categories of *best idea*, *best contribution to the community* and *best paper for this edition of IWST*. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process and by the audience voting during the conference. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Awards will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper/abstract 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 * Steven Costiou, Inria Lille, France (chair), * Guille Polito, Inria Lille, France (chair), * Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (chair) Program committee to be published ...

March 14, 2024

ESUG24 Call for Student Volunteers, 8-11 July, Lille, France

by Steven Costiou

Call for Student Volunteers, ESUG 2024, 8-11 July, Lille, France Student volunteers help 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 volunteers-esug24(a)inria.fr. * title: [ESUG 2024 Student] * name, gender, university/school, country, email address * short description of you and why you are interested in participating Accommodation is covered from Sunday 7 July until 8 Thursday July 2024 (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. Travel costs are *not* covered by the student volunteers program. 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.

March 12, 2024

Smalltalk Meetup in Zurich, 26 April 2024

by Peter Ursprung

Hi all, We are organizing the next Smalltalk Meetup in Zurich, Switzerland. It will be on Friday, 26 April 2024, starting at 18:00. We will meet in a meeting room where we will have short Smalltalk talks, afterwards we will go to a restaurant nearby. If you are interested, please register until Friday, 19 April 2024 on this website: https://zurich.smalltalk.world <https://zurich.smalltalk.world> We are still looking for presentations: if you have something interesting to show, please contact us or mention it in the registration. Regards, Peter

March 4, 2024