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Reminder: register for ESUG 2012
by Johan Brichau May 23, 2012

May 23, 2012

Hi Smalltalkers, Please register as soon as possible for the 20th ESUG Conference in Gent Belgium. -> https://registration.esug.org More importantly, make your reservations for accomodation as soon as possible. Remember our hotel options expire on June 30th! -> http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2012 Hope to see you all in Gent! Johan Brichau

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57 registered people for the pharo conf
by Stéphane Ducasse May 21, 2012

May 21, 2012

Hi guys We are happy to say that there are 57 participants to the pharo conf starting thursday. http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Events Stef

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CFP IWST'2012
by Loïc Lagadec May 21, 2012

May 21, 2012

Dear colleagues & Friends, We apologize for multiple reception of this announcement. The International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, is a European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) Conference joint event, that focuses on research activities - namely academic creative work undertaken on smalltalk use, and more generally on object technologies. IWST was launched in 2009, in Brest, during the 17th ESUG Conference. The second edition took place in Barcelona, and the third edition was held in 2011 at the heart of historic Edinburgh. Next edition will be in Gent, Begium this summer (28th of august). ESUG gathers groups of professionals and hobbyists who share an interest in the Smalltalk programming languages and related technologies. The goal of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. IWST contributes to triggering discussions and exchanges of ideas. As always, we make a point to have a very constructive paper review process that aims to provide in-depth comments and suggestions to all of them (no one-liners!) This makes it ideal to disseminate new research directions, and is a good venue for early stage PhD students to receive feedback on their work. In addition, we intent to invite best papers to a journal special issue as we did last year. Looking forward to your submissions, and to meeting you in Gent! Best regards, Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec Co-chairs of IWST * International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2012* August 28th, 2012 Gent, Belgium. ESUG 2012 Smalltalk joint event *Important dates* Submission deadline: June 15, 2012 Notification deadline: July 15, 2012 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL, and the authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal special issue (To Be Confirmed). *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. Participants are invited to submit research articles. We will not enforce any length restriction. However we expect papers of two kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas. Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. 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 *Links* _home page:_ http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012/International-Workshop---IWS… _submission:_ http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2012 *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. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. *Program chairs* Loïc Lagadec and Alain Plantec (LabSticc CACS/CNRS, University of Brest, France) * Program committee* Gabriela Arevalo Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina Alexandre Bergel University of Chile Andrew P. Black Portland State University, US Marcus Denker Rmod, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Luc Fabresse Ecole des Mines de Douai, France, Tudor Girba CompuGroup Medical Schweiz, Switzerland Andy Kellens Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Mickaël Kerboeuf LabSticc, University of Brest, France Jannik Laval LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France Mariano Martinez Peck Ecole des Mines de Douai, France, Lukas Renggli Google, Switzerland Jorge Ressia Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland Bastian Steinert HPI, Software Architecture Group, Germany Hernan Wilkinson 10Pines, IT consultancy, Buenos Aires, Argentina Roel Wuyts IMEC Leuven, Belgium

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[ANN] The Roassal Visualization Engine
by Alexandre Bergel May 20, 2012

May 20, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers, We are very happy to announce the release of Roassal, an agile visualization engine. Roassal graphically renders objects using short and expressive Smalltalk expressions. A large set of interactions are offered for a better user experience. Painting, brushing, interconnecting, zooming, drag and dropping will just make you more intimate with any arbitrary object model. Screenshot available on http://objectprofile.com/pier/Products/Roassal/Screenshots Roassal is distributed under the MIT license and run on VisualWorks (7.4, 7.7.1, 7.9), Pharo (1.3, 1.4, 2.0) and ObjectStudio. Roassal is freely distributed, you are therefore free to use it, even in a commercial setting. We will however be glad to hear about your experience. Just send us an email if you are adopting Roassal. Kai and Hapao, the two other products of Object Profile, are using Roassal for their rendering. The Object Profile crew (Twitter: @ObjectProfile , web: http://objectprofile.com)

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We are looking for Pharo Success stories
by Stéphane Ducasse May 18, 2012

May 18, 2012

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Re: [Esug-list] www.esug.org down?
by Marcus Denker May 16, 2012

May 16, 2012

On May 16, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Yup, it's down fo everyone: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/esug.org > It's up again. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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www.esug.org down?
by Nowak, Helge May 16, 2012

May 16, 2012

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ESUG 2012: registration is open!
by Johan Brichau May 16, 2012

May 16, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers, I am pleased to announce that registration for the 20th ESUG Conference in Ghent, Belgium is now open! To register, please proceed to the website http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012 or go directly to http://registration.esug.org Important: do not forget to book your accomodation directly at one of the hotels in Ghent before June30th! See: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2012/Accomodation August in Ghent is tourist season and there are a number of other conferences running at the same time at ESUG. So please book your hotel early, preferably before June 30th! We have ensured availability of a number of rooms at various hotels in Ghent until June 30th. After that date, the option expires and you will need to search for other places to stay. Make sure to book your hotel as soon as possible and mention the reservation code "ESUG" (this is important to get the rates and/or available rooms!) If there are any questions or problems, I am happy to answer them. Just send me an email on johan(a)inceptive.be Johan Brichau johan(a)inceptive.be

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Fwd: Do you know any candidates for assistant positions in our department
by Stéphane Ducasse May 10, 2012

May 10, 2012

> From: Kim Mens <Kim.Mens(a)uclouvain.be> > Subject: Do you know any candidates for assistant positions in our department > Date: May 10, 2012 10:28:45 AM GMT+02:00 > To: researchers RELEASED <released(a)listes.uclouvain.be> > > Dear all, > > I am urgently looking for possible candidates to fill up some teaching and research assistants in our department. Such an assistant typically has teaching and research duties and gets up to 6 years to obtain a PhD (to be renewed every 2 years). The 6 years is because of the extra teaching load as compared to a normal researchers. Regarding research, they get to choose what professor they want to do research with and negotiate the research topic with him; evidently I'm open to have them under my guidance, but the choice is up to them. Regarding teaching, the teaching charges are distributed equally among the different assistants based on their capacities and interests. The positions are very interesting, and they get a real contract and fair salary (as compared to some other countries). A university level degree of master in computer science or computing science engineering (or something equivalent) is a must. (For foreigners, equivalence of their diploma will need to be verified but that can be done afterwards I think.) Knowledge of French is strongly desired because the bachelor years are still taught in French and we are already quite short on French-speaking researchers to help out with teaching duties in the bachelor years. Knowledge of English is also positive since our Master years are taught in English. Anyway, if you would know anyone, please pass them this information. The deadline is very short since all forms need to be filled in and submitted electronically by May 18, which would mean they need to start working on it right now. A internal selection commission of professors from our department will select the three best candidates from all those who applied. > > More instructions on how to apply can be found here : > http://www.uclouvain.be/11617.html > The candidate needs to fill out the digital form that is available there. If they click on "Listes des postes vacants" they will see the different vacancies currently available for the entire university. The ones related to our department can be found under the faculty "Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain" and more specifically the vacancies with identification numbers 00001941, 00002203, en 00004257. > You will see that 2 of these 3 have a description that is particularly dedicated to computer science. The third one looks more general, but in fact it has been decided recently that it will also go to computer science, but we weren't able to change the description anymore. Interested candidates should thus fill in the form and are strongly advised to apply to each of the 3 positions, even though they can receive only one. (I agree the procedure is a bit absurd, but what did you expect, this is Belgium.) > > Of course you can always contact me for more information or if the procedure is not 100% clear (even though I also had to look all of this up on the official university webpage). > > That's it for now... > > Thanks for your attention to this mail. > > Prof. Kim Mens > Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) > Institute of Information & Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) > Ingénierie Informatique (INGI) > Place Sainte Barbe 2, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique > kim.mens(a)uclouvain.be > > >

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Re: [Esug-list] Pocket Smalltalk
by Marcus Denker May 10, 2012

May 10, 2012

On May 10, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Loïc Lagadec wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone still have access to the pocketsmalltalk material? > VM, doc, emulator? > There is some stuff in the ESUG Archive: http://esug.org/data/Smalltalk/Historical/pocketst/ -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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