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Fwd: GSoC news: we got 30 proposals, few stats

by Janko Mivšek

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

April 7, 2012

Fwd: [smaltalk-gsoc-students] 3 days left, your biography, invitations, proposals

by Marcus Denker

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

April 3, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group

by Francois Stephany

Hi Serge, I'll be in Vancouver at that time, let me know in private emails where you stay, we can have beer and some smalltalk ;) Francois On 02/04/12 03:19, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Francois Stephany > <tulipe.moutarde(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > Great ! I will be in Vancouver from April 22 to 25 > for the ISCRAM 2012 conference. > Maybe i can meet some Smalltalkers here ? > > Regards, -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131

April 3, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group

by Serge Stinckwich

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Francois Stephany <tulipe.moutarde(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Great ! I will be in Vancouver from April 22 to 25 for the ISCRAM 2012 conference. Maybe i can meet some Smalltalkers here ? Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/

April 2, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk job - Dublin

by Stan Shepherd

Just had confirmation from our personnel dept: "we can only accept candidates who are either EU nationals or are legally entitled to work in Ireland,e.g. stamp 4 holders". Sorry to those of you who are excluded by this. ...Stan -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Smalltalk-job-Dublin-tp4508355p4525404.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 2, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group

by Francois Stephany

And here's the link: http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Smalltalk-Developers-Group/ On 01/04/12 13:56, Francois Stephany wrote: > 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

April 1, 2012

Vancouver Smalltalk Developer Meetup Group

by Francois Stephany

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

April 1, 2012

20th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions

by Damien Cassou

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

March 29, 2012

[GSoC] Call for students

by Janko Mivšek

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

March 28, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] Next step

by Carla F. Griggio

Hi Saurav! Now Yuriy Mironenko is the main mentor of the project, though I'm still involved as co-mentor. You're very welcome to join the students mailing list that you can find at: http://gsoc2012.esug.org/ and let's talk about it there :) . There are other students also interested in that project and some pointers have already been discussed, you can find that here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/smalltalk-gsoc-students/… Cheers! Carla On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Saurav <online.saurav(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > >

March 28, 2012