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STIC 2013: Call for Participation

by James Robertson

Your Chance to Participate: STIC 2013 30th Anniversary of Smalltalk Conference STIC is a forum where Smalltalk professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts can meet and share ideas and experiences. We are currently accepting proposals for talks involving Smalltalk technology and other areas of innovation in the software industry. We’re looking forward to an excellent conference, and need your participation to maintain the high technical level of the conference! We are also looking for academic papers for the “Smalltalk Directions” part of the conference. If you plan to submit a paper, please follow the same directions listed below for presentations. Such papers should address possible future directions for Smalltalk and/or Smalltalk inspired dynamic languages. The conference will take place at the Wigwam Resort in Phoenix, Arizona between June 9 - June 12, 2013. Presentations will have 45 minutes time slots including discussion. They may be in the form of: History of Smalltalk - It’s the 30th Anniversary of the language - we would love to see presentations on this topic Technical Presentations Experience Reports Technology Demonstrations Panel Discussions Workshops Describe Your Idea to Us! Proposals should be submitted by email to Sts_Speakers(a)stic.st and should include the following information: Name Contact Information Type of Presentation Brief Abstract Short Biography for the Presenter(s) Any Date/Time Constraints Any Other Information You Think We Should Know If you cannot discuss the internal application you are working on due to corporate restrictions, perhaps you can discuss the application’s component usage or development process. We also plan to reserve time for short presentations, in the form of Lightning Talks and short technology demonstrations - but these will be available for sign-up at the conference rather than as advance proposals. These talks will be limited to a 5-8 minute time window, so if you intend to volunteer for one at the conference, be prepared for that! Submissions should be received by February 15, 2013, and should be submitted either in PDF or Word (Microsoft) format. Note that submissions with incomplete information may be rejected – particularly if bio or abstract information is missing. Presenters will qualify for a significantly discounted registration - if your talk is accepted, we’ll have full details on the specifics. For updates and announcements about the conference, please visit us on the web at http://www.stic.st James Robertson http://www.jarober.com jarober(a)gmail.com

Dec. 21, 2012

[ann] moose and humane assessment courses

by Tudor Girba

Hi, In the new year, I will be organizing a couple of public courses around the topic of humane assessment and Moose. These two will be held in Bern: - Humane Assessment Primer on January 25. This course is relevant for both managers and engineers. It covers assessment economics and the means to integrate humane assessment in the development process and in the organization: http://www.humane-assessment.com/courses/humane-assessment-primer - Moose Apprentice on February 7-8. This course is relevant for engineers. This is an introductory hands-on course on using the Moose analysis platform for putting humane assessment into practice: http://www.humane-assessment.com/courses/moose-apprentice Cheers, Tudor -- www.tudorgirba.com "Don't give to get. Just give."

Dec. 17, 2012

ECOOP'13/ECMFA'13/ECSA'13: Call for workshop proposals

by Damien Cassou

Call for Workshops ================== In 2013, the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA) and the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) will be collocated in Montpellier, France. The 3 conferences will host an exciting array of workshops that address a variety of topics in object-oriented technology, Model-Driven Engineering and software architecture. A workshop is a forum for exchanging ideas and theories that are still in an evolutionary stage. Typically, a workshop will either address a focused topic in depth or explore connections between one of the three conferences' domains and other areas of interest. ECOOP 2013, ECMFA 2013 and ECSA 2013 thus invite proposals for workshops lasting half a day, one day or two days. The workshops will be held Monday and Tuesday 1-2 July 2013. Proposals ========= A workshop proposal must be submitted as one PDF file. It must include the following information, in this order: * Name of the workshop (first page) * Table of contents for the proposal (with page numbers) * Duration of the workshop (half-day, full day, 2 days) * Abstract: 150-200 words describing the workshop, suitable for the conferences Web site * Keywords and addressed domains. * References to previous editions of the workshop (if any), including name of host conference and number of participants to the workshop each year * Summary of the workshop format: e.g., refereed papers, and/or short papers, and/or invited talks, and/or problem solving, and/or brainstorming sessions. How will papers or other submissions be reviewed? * Description of how the workshop papers and results will be published or otherwise disseminated (see the "Dissemination of Workshop Results" section below) * Preliminary Call For Workshop Papers describing the workshop's focus, its main topics and its deadlines * A (draft) list of the workshop PC members * A list of the workshop organizers * For each organizer of the workshop: - name, - affiliation - contact information - a brief biography (up to 200 words), focusing on the organizer's expertise in the field and (if applicable) experience as a workshop organizer * Primary contact: identify one organizer as the primary contact * Any special requirements that the workshop may have Workshop Schedule Constraints ============================= Each workshop will have to pay attention to the following timing constraints : * the program must be made public before the early registration deadline of the conferences; we thus expect you to make it available around mid-may; * the workshop must be able to consider submissions of papers rejected by the conferences, and have these enter its reviewing process; we thus expect you to make your submission deadline around mid-april; * the workshop must send its Call For Papers at least one month before submission deadline; we thus expect you to send your CFP around mid-march; Proposal Submission and Review ============================== Workshop proposals should be submitted by email to the workshop chairs, at ws-chairs-ec-montpellier-2013(a)inria.fr Proposals will be reviewed by the workshop chairs. Proposals will be selected based on their relevance to the conferences aims, beneficiaries, and timely advances in their respective topics. In particular, proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - The potential to advance the state of research and practice - The organizers' commitment to stimulate discussion at the workshop - The organizers’ commitment to arrange for sensible digital and permanent post-meeting proceedings - The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful workshop - Timeliness and expected interest in the workshop topics - The balance and synergy between the proposed workshops. - The continuity of previous years workshops *Workshop proposal deadline: January 10th* *Workshop proposal notification: January 16th* Workshop proposals may still be submitted after January 10th, till February 15th, and will be evaluated with the same criteria. But in addition these "late" proposals may only be accepted if their themes do not interfere with those of already accepted workshops. We thus strongly advise you to submit your workshop proposal as soon as possible, and *before* January 10th. Dissemination of Workshop Results ================================= A proposal should clearly state how the results of the workshop, that is the papers and other outcomes, will be made available to participants and others, both before and after the workshop event. ACM DL publications are encouraged. Contact ======= For additional information about this Call for Workshops, please contact the workshop chairs at ws-chairs-ec-montpellier-2013(a)inria.fr. An up-to-date version of this call for workshops may be found at: http://info-web.lirmm.fr/ec-montpellier-2013/index.php/satelliteevents?id=1… Workshop Chairs =============== Olivier Zendra, INRIA Nancy - France Reda Bendraou, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - France Damien Cassou, Université Lille 1 - France Stéphane Ducasse, INRIA Lille - France

Dec. 4, 2012

Redline Smalltalk IndieGoGo

by Sean Allen

Hi all, We are currently running an indiegogo campaign to raise money to have James Ladd be able to work on Redline Smalltalk full time for a while. The goal is to be able to come out of it with a production usable version 1.0 Smalltalk running on the JVM. We'd appreciate if you could spread the word about the campaign amongst anyone you know that might be interested and of course, donations are welcomed as well. Thanks for spreading the word: http://www.indiegogo.com/smalltalk/x/1780747?c=home For those of you who might not know what we've been up to lately, here are a couple blog posts about the jvm & java integration we've been working on: http://www.redline.st/blog/2012/05/01/emitting-jvm-bytecodes.html http://www.redline.st/blog/2012/11/20/automatic-java-class-integration.html If you'd like to know more, please join the mailing list and start firing questions at us. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/redline-smalltalk -Sean-

Nov. 29, 2012

Call for Participation in the Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM 2013

by Stephan Eggermont

Call for Participation in the Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM 2013. http://www.fosdem.org " A devroom for the Pharo, Squeak, Amber, GST, Etoilé, Seaside, Moose Smalltalk projects & Newspeak as derived language. Smalltalk environments offer a very high development productivity, unmatched by their successors. Come do some pair programming with us and experience yourself the advantages of a real OO environment" The meetup will take place Sunday, February 3, 2013, from 9AM until 5PM, building AW. This room has 72 seats, a VGA video projector and wireless internet. More information will be available later. Proposals on content and format are welcome. People interested in running a session should announce that on the smalltalk-devroom mailing list, with the following information: - Their name - The project they are associated with - A short bio, to be put on the website along with their speaker name - (optionally) a picture of themselves - The title of their session (which will go on the website and in the booklet) - A abstract describing the session in further detail. - The desired length of the session. - The desired time slot in which they want to hold the session. Suggested values for the duration are 55min, 25min, 6m40 (Pecha Kucha). The desired time slot is meant to help you prevent conflicts with other dev rooms in which you might have a talk or your travel arrangements. There are alternative, non smalltalk-specific tracks available: lightning talk and the main track The deadline for submissions is December 31, 23:00 GMT+1. Discussion takes place on the smalltalk-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org mailing list. Please subscribe if you are interested: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/smalltalk-devroom The local VUB/ULB Smalltalkers have been asked to organize a sprint/BSUG meeting/Camp Smalltalk on Saturday February 2. Devroom related URLs: http://www.pharo-project.org http://www.squeak.org/ http://etoileos.com/ http://www.seaside.st/ http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ http://www.moosetechnology.org http://amber-lang.net http://newspeaklanguage.org/ http://www.esug.org

Nov. 9, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk logos page on esug.org?

by Damien Cassou

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si> wrote: > This is for history: I once collected all logos for Smalltalk and put > them on a wiki. Which is defunct now but I found in on archive.org: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20050404043202/http://wiki.eranova.si/logo > > It would be nice to open a special page on esug.org to preserve a > history of Smalltalk logos as well. Thank you Janko. Done: http://esug.org/wiki/pier/Smaltalk -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

Nov. 8, 2012

Smalltalk logos page on esug.org?

by Janko Mivšek

Hi guys, This is for history: I once collected all logos for Smalltalk and put them on a wiki. Which is defunct now but I found in on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20050404043202/http://wiki.eranova.si/logo It would be nice to open a special page on esug.org to preserve a history of Smalltalk logos as well. Best regars Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

Nov. 8, 2012

esug.org unavailable

by Janko Mivšek

Hi guys, I have problems accessing http://www.esug.org, it reports redirecting problems while ends up on http://esug.org/wiki/error/HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE.html Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

Nov. 7, 2012

BYTE Smalltalk issue at archive.org

by Felix Franz

Hello, just found the BYTE-Smalltalk issue at archive.org: http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08 The May 85 issue has some nice Smalltalk-articles too (starting at page 151): http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1985-05/1985_05_BYTE_10-05_Multipro… including a review of Methods by Digitalk and an article about a Smalltalk-80 implementation on a Apple II :O Cheers, Felix

Nov. 1, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Retrobjects somewhere?

by Sébastien KIRCHE

Le 29 oct. 2012 à 23:36, Hernan Wilkinson a écrit : > Hi Sebastian > I have it on my dropbox... I don't know how to make the directory public, but if you have a dropbox account send it to me and I'll share the directory I would be very happy to study that "real world" application (there are so few complete ST applications available publicly)... I have also a Dropbox. I send you a MP. Thanks. Sébastien Kirche

Oct. 30, 2012