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Call for Presentations @ ESUG 2024

by stephane ducasse

Dear Friends The deadline for the presentation proposal was 1st of April. We extended it until 8th of April. You are probably busy but we the organisers deserve consideration too. ESUG 2024 Call for Presentations from 8 to 11 July 2024 Lille France https://esug.github.io <https://esug.github.io/> https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/conf2024.html 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, software to the award competition, or a paper to IWST http://https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/IWST2024.html - 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 in 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 We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and ''Show us your project'' sessions. - Show your business in a 10-minute session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls: we want some sessions 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-minute sessions aggregated. ### How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2024-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 2024] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio:

April 4, 2024

Deadline extended and a new track at IWST 24!!!

by Gordana Rakic

Dear ESUG friends, we have two good news for you: - we have extended the submission deadline for IWST papers submission until the end of this week https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/IWST2024.html - this year we open a new track at IWST. Now you can come and present to our community your contribution that has been previously published at another venue https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/IWST-24-preprints.html For both IWST tracks, please be aware of the early registration deadline that is approaching very fast https://registration.esug.org/ESUG. Looking forward for your submissions, IWST team On 14. 3. 24. 09:47, Steven Costiou wrote: > > > 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 > <imap://goca%40dmi%2Euns%2Eac%2Ers@mail.pmf.uns.ac.rs:143/fetch%3EUID%3E/INBOX%3E98259?header=quotebody&part=1.1.2.2&filename=text.html>. > 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 ... > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list --esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email toesug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org

April 1, 2024

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

UKSTUG Meeting 28 February 2024: Juan Vuletich - Bootstrap & Dynamic Cuis Libraries

by Giovanni Corriga

Juan Vuletich returns to the UKSTUG to discuss some recent enhancements to Cuis Smalltalk ( https://cuis.st/ ) : Bootstrap and Dynamic Cuis Libraries. Bootstrap: Creating Minimal Images from Scratch > * The last ancestor of Cuis Smalltalk that was bootstrapped from scratch was Smalltalk-76. Since then, various released images of Smalltalk-80, Squeak and Cuis were derived by applying updates to the previous one. A new tool called 'Bootstrap' allows the creation of minimal Smalltalk images from scratch. These images are in the Spur 32 and 64-bit formats, compatible with the OpenSmalltalk VM. 'Bootstrap' gives developers complete control over what is included in the new image. It is compact, relatively simple, and easy to extend and adapt. Dynamic Cuis Libraries: A binary format for Cuis code that is powerful and quick to load > * Dynamic Cuis Libraries are binary files with pre-compiled code that can be loaded into a running Cuis image. They can add new classes and extend existing ones. For existing classes, there are no requirements on the shape of that class in the image loading the library. Missing variables are added, extra variables are kept, and both existing and newly loaded methods are adjusted to whatever shape the class has. Juan Vuletich ( https://independent.academia.edu/JuanVuletich ) is the founder and lead developer of Cuis Smalltalk. He is a long-standing Open Source Smalltalk community member, having contributed kernel code to Cuis, Squeak and the Squeak VM for over 25 years. Juan has been programming since he was 14, and doing it professionally since he was 17. He holds an MS.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires. He works at LabWare. 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/299084123/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

Feb. 23, 2024

CfP: Onward! Papers @ SPLASH 2024

by Jonathan Edwards

Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. The Character of Onward! Papers Onward! Papers is looking for grand visions and new paradigms that could make a big difference in how we will one day build software. But it is not looking for research-as-usual papers—conferences like OOPSLA are the place for that. Those conferences require rigorous validation such as theorems or empirical experiments, which are necessary for scientific progress, but which typically preclude discussion of early-stage ideas. Onward! papers must also supply some degree of validation because mere speculation is not a good basis for progress. However, Onward! accepts less rigorous methods of validation such as compelling arguments, exploratory implementations, and substantial examples. The use of worked-out examples to support new ideas is strongly encouraged. Submission deadline is April 25. For further details please see the full CfP <https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-papers#Call-for-Papers>. We welcome submissions from independent researchers, for whom we have a special invitation: to the crazy ones <https://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=1708>.

Feb. 18, 2024

Call for presentation @ ESUG 2024

by stephane ducasse

Dear friends Please distribute the following call ESUG 2024 Call for Presentations from 8 to 11 July 2024 Lille France https://esug.github.io https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/conf2024.html 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, software to the award competition, or a paper to IWST http://https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/IWST2024.html - 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 in 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 We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and ''Show us your project'' sessions. - Show your business in a 10-minute session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls: we want some sessions 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-minute sessions aggregated. ### How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2024-Conference/talks [Or but only if you are not connected to the world… send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr] Title: [ESUG 2024] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio: ## 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 Steven Costiou <steven.costiou at inria.fr> and Oleksandr Zaitsev <olk.zaytsev at gmail.com> with: title: [ESUG 2024 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 from 8 to 11 July 2024 (including nights from Sunday to Monday and from Wednesday to Thursday ). Students will be hosted in student rooms. ESUG additionally covers 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, that 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 a student volunteer, do not book yourself, we have arranged the booking already!

Feb. 13, 2024

Open PhD position on debugging at Inria Lille

by Steven Costiou

Hello, we have a PhD position opening at Lille, France. See all details here: https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2024-07154 Steven./ / /Summary of the research proposal:/ /### Application development inevitably introduces bugs. Often, it's not clear why a code change introduced a bug. To find this cause-and-effect relationship and debug more efficiently, developers can sometimes rely on the existence of a previous version of the code without the bug. Yet, traditional debugging tools are not designed for this kind of work, making it a tedious operation. In this thesis, we propose an approach that enables us to understand and to debug an application in a *live system*, such as Pharo or Python, by comparing two executions with different results: one execution succeeds and the other fails. Based on this hypothesis, we propose in this thesis to answer the following challenges: - How to detect divergence, i.e. different behavior between two executions of a program? - How can we reduce the cost in time, memory and energy consumption of detecting divergence(s) on long executions? - What are the criteria for deciding whether a divergence is normal or unauthorized? - What about detecting multiple divergences in the same program? - What abstractions are needed to compare two executions of a program and detect divergences? To meet these challenges, in addition to a precise state-of-the-art on debugging techniques, the PhD student will study concrete cases of program execution and propose a tool to be integrated into Pharo. /

Feb. 8, 2024