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GSoC news: 13 stipendiums!
by Janko Mivšek April 12, 2012

April 12, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers, Wonderful news, we got 13 "slots" from Google, that is, 13 students and their proposals will be accepted for Google and they will receive stipendiums if they will do their projects right. More exactly, part of 4500 USD immediately, part after interim evaluation and part at successful finish of their projects. We have currently 18 paired projects, that is, projects paired with one student among their many proposals. You can see that from project table, see which are currently accepted (column Acc.): http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects?view=projectTable Now mentors need to review and score those 18 project proposals to indicate which are the best among all that nice proposals and to come with number down to 13. This will happen until next Friday 20.April, when we will finally decide, which 13 students to accept. Google will then officially confirm them in few days after. Best regards Janko & Carla -- Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org

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Fwd: GSoC news: we got 30 proposals, few stats
by Janko Mivšek April 7, 2012

April 7, 2012

Dear Smalltalkers, Yesterday passed a deadline for students to propose how will they do the projects and we received 30 proposals from 23 students, which is in my opinion quite a nice number and I'm sure we can end up with quite a number of nice projects this year. And what is even more important: new Smalltalkers in community! Next two weeks mentors will review and rank/vote for the proposals, Google will give us a number of stipendiums it will provide and in few days after Friday 20.April we will have a final list of accepted students and their projects. Few stats (numbers of all participating): 32 projects 34 mentors 32 students 30 proposals 23 students wrote proposal Students by Smalltalk skill: 11 None 9 Low 5 Medium 7 High Students from countries: 5 Argentina 5 India 4 Russia 3 USA 2 Chile 2 Czech Republic 2 Malaysia 1 China 1 Croatia 1 Ecuador 1 Egypt 1 France 1 Germany 1 Sweden 1 Ukraine 1 Slovenia Stay tuned! Janko @ Carla -- Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org

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Fwd: [smaltalk-gsoc-students] 3 days left, your biography, invitations, proposals
by Marcus Denker April 3, 2012

April 3, 2012

Begin forwarded message: > From: Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [smaltalk-gsoc-students] 3 days left, your biography, invitations, proposals > Date: April 3, 2012 8:12:01 PM GMT+02:00 > To: smalltalk-gsoc-students(a)googlegroups.com > Reply-To: smalltalk-gsoc-students(a)googlegroups.com > > Dear students, > > 3 days to the Friday deadline at 19 UTC! Those who you didn't already, please write your biography! Without it you don't have any chance, sorry, and in Thursday you'll end up on "Not serious" list. > > Mentors are starting to invite you to write proposals. Look at your profiles and if you'll be invited then start writing a proposal. More about that later. > > To repeat the steps: > > 1. on our website http://gsoc2012.esug.org: > Register there and provide as much contact info for mentors to reach as possible; > Write as best biography as you can. Good biography page is the best way to be accepted! > Choose up to three projects you are interested in. Mark a project you are most interested by clicking the button 'Very interested'; > Mentors will soon invite up to two students per project to write a proposal; > Invited students write a proposal how to make a chosen project. > 2. on Google GSoC site: > Register there as a student as well, and immediately, you can edit the registration until deadline anyway, > After invitation and writing a proposal copy the proposal on the Google website as well. > Why such a dual procedure? On our website we can pair your interest with available projects easier that on Google site, this is the main reason. > > So again, hurry up and best luck! > > Janko > Smalltalk GSoC Admin team -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group
by Francois Stephany April 3, 2012

April 3, 2012

Hi there, I've just started a Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup group. If you're in the area, it would great to meet around a beer and some lightning talks. Cheers, Francois -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131

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Smalltalk job - Dublin
by stan shepherd April 2, 2012

April 2, 2012

Hi, we are looking for another Smalltalker for our Dublin office, working on Misys's syndicated loans software Loan-IQ. http://www.misys.com/tcm/markets/syndicated_lending_solutions-loan_iq.html If you know anyone who may be interested, please ask them to contact me at stan.shepherd(a)misys.com Thanks, ...Stan

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20th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions
by Damien Cassou March 29, 2012

March 29, 2012

20th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions Gent, Belgium August 27-31, 2012; Camp Smalltalk August 25-26 http://esug.org/Conferences/2012 This call includes: 1) Developers forum 2) Innovation Technology Award 3) International Workshop 4) Student Volunteer program 5) Free ESUG tickets program ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the past 20 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers using Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes. This year's edition of the largest European Smalltalk event will include: - The regular Smalltalk developers conference with renowned invited speakers - a Smalltalk camp that proved fruitful for interactions and discussions (August 25-26) - 9th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects - IWST: an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: - Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/About/SupportESUG - 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 (170 people at Amsterdam)! - Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. 1) Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This year we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. In addition, we are looking for tutorials. The list of topics 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 Submissions due on 15 June 2012 Notification of acceptance on 25 June 2012 How to submit? Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to board(a)esug.org AND damien.cassou(a)gmail.com AND stephane.ducasse(a)free.fr following the template below. Please use this template since the emails will be automatically processed! Subject: [ESUG 2012 Developers] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Abstract: (max 1400 characters) Bio: (max 1400 characters) Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically 2) Innovation Technology Award ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce the 9th Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete. This year we will request 3-5min videos. More information at: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2012/Innovation-Technology-Awards 3) International Workshop - IWST 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, August 28 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. Nevertheless, we expect papers of two kinds: - Short position papers describing emerging ideas. - Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. We welcome research papers on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics. 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). Submissions deadline: June 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2012 More information at: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2012/International-Workshop---IWST-2012 4) Student Volunteer Program ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered being a student volunteer? 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. More information at: http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2012/StudentVolunteers 5) Free ESUG tickets program ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ESUG will offer 10 free entrance tickets. To get a free ticket you should send a mail to board(a)esug.org Subject: [ESUG 2012 Free entrance] + your name And you should write a small motivation. We hope to see you there and have fun together. -- The ESUG board Board mailing list: board(a)lists.esug.org

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[GSoC] Call for students
by Janko Mivšek March 28, 2012

March 28, 2012

Dear Students, Now it is your turn! You will have to register in our website first [1], put there some information, show interest for the projects and contact the project mentors. After the registration step you will get all the mentors information in order to contact them. By pressing the button on the project, you will show your interest. This is not something formal yet. Of course you can propose your own project too. In this case write a proposal in a format other projects have and send it to admins (see the email on the bottom). Our mentors will vote for the most interesting projects and in the middle of the voting Google will tell us, how many projects will actually be funded. Voting will happen in April, with final results expected at the end of April. At that time you will finally know if you are accepted or not. Of course, there can be many students interested per project. This means that interest for this project is high, but on the other side a chance that you will be chosen is lower. It is up to you to convince a mentor that you are the best! Note also that the Ideas page is deprecated. On ideas page just the project ideas were collected. Now, we are preparing the real projects. So, please from now on always refer to this link for the projects: http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects So, the initial steps are: 1. Register on our special Smalltalk GSoC website (with your Google account!): http://gsoc2012.esug.org/admin?view=loginGoogle 2. Edit your profile to get some more contact information for mentors to let you know, 3. Fulfill your brief Biography page (see Biography tab on profile), 4. Go to Projects page, choose up to three projects and click there 'I'm interested' button, 5. Contact and discuss with project mentors about your interest. Subscribe also to a special mailing list [2] where we will help you with further steps. Deadline: as soon as possible, because the deadline to register on official GSoC website [3] is 6.April, which is, well, soon! But about that later... Finally, we will really appreciate if you can help us to distribute this call for students. One of our goals is to increase the Smalltalk community. Those who have access to universities can distribute this among the students. [1] http://gsoc2012.esug.org [2] Students mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-students [3] Official GSoC website http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 Good luck! Janko & Carla --- GSoC Admin Team smalltalk.gsoc(a)gmail.com http://gsoc2012.esug.org

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Next step
by Saurav March 27, 2012

March 27, 2012

Hi all! I have been reading the PBE e-book and running the examples and playing away in the Pharo environment. I now have a decent overview of the Pharo environment, the process of developing and writing Smalltalk code for the Pharo implementation (Using the System Browser, classification of classes and methods into packages and protocols respectively, and use of the Debugger). I now want to take the next step for Pharo contribution, and this is something which will really get me into gears. I want to work on the *"**Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies" *project for GSoC 2012 for ESUG. I request for some description of the project from *Carla Griggio *for some pointers, and I will start making my applucation ready to submit. Thank you very much, Best regards, Saurav

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Fwd: [Pharo-project] Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? | Hacker News
by Noury Bouraqadi March 24, 2012

March 24, 2012

Begin forwarded message: > From: Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven(a)beta9.be> > Date: 24 mars 2012 09:22:36 HNEC > To: "Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Development" <Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > Subject: [Pharo-project] Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? | Hacker News > Reply-To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > Vote for Smalltalk! > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692 > > Registration is non-agressive. Noury -- http://twitter.com/#!/NouryBouraqadi http://www.kroobe.com/profile/noury

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Smalltalk Industry Conference - STIC 2013 with Smalltalk Directions 2013
by Georg Heeg March 23, 2012

March 23, 2012

Dear ESUG Members, First of all thank you for sponsoring STIC 2012. We have used some of the ESUG sponsorship to make our first Smalltalk directions happen. Thus we could print the proceedings and we will mail a copy to all those authors who could not make it for various reasons. And we had s student volunteer Fabian who did a great job. Overall it has been a great conference. I personally liked the keynote by Sam Adams about Big POOP most. We have recorded all presentations. And after we will be back we will make slides and videos available. Please have a look at www.stic.st. At the end of the conference we announced Smalltalk Industry Conference 2013 which we will organize in Arizona in June 2013. You will find detailed information on www.stic.st. In June 2013 we will also have Smalltalk Directions 2013 organized by Smalltalk Academic Advisory Board STAAC. The formal call for papers will go out soon. But you can start planning to submit your research results today. The topics will probably be along the lines of this year's call for papers in <http://www.stic.st/2011/11/smalltalk-directions-call-for-participation/> http://www.stic.st/2011/11/smalltalk-directions-call-for-participation/. The papers will get reviewed and published and in the presentation you will get into contact with co-researchers and industrial Smalltalk users from all over the world. Overall it has been a great conference, thanks to all the authors and the participants to come. Georg Heeg PS: As for many conferences before James Robertson has blogged a lot on <http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView> http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView. Thanks to James for the publicity. STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director Phone +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

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