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ESUG Presentation deadline is 1st of JUNE!

by stephane ducasse

Hello people do not wait the last moment, it will help the organizers. ESUG 2023 Call for Presentations 28.8.2023 to 01.9.2023 Lyon France https://esug.github.io <https://esug.github.io/> https://esug.github.io/2023-Conference/conf2023.html Deadline for submission is 1 st of June! ESUG is the premium and fun conference around smalltalk technologies. 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, 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 (180 people at Koln 2019)! - Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into 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 New this year!!! We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and show us your projects sessions. Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) Teaching pearls : we want some session 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 min sessions aggregated. ### How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2023-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 2023] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio: Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list-leave@lists.esug.org>

May 1, 2023

ESUG 2023 student volunteer program!

by stephane ducasse

Please distribute to the community and more 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 stephane.ducasse at inria.fr <http://inria.fr/> and Oleksandr Zaitsev <olk.zaytsev(a)gmail.com <mailto:olk.zaytsev@gmail.com>> with: Title: [ESUG 2023 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 27.8.2023 to 01.9.2023 (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. 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. Information about hotel Student Volunteer rooms are booked at (to be announced). If you are student volunteer, do not book yourself, we have arranged the booking already! _______________________________________________

May 1, 2023

Re: [IWST 2023]Reminder about Call for Papers + Special Issue preannouncement

by Gordana Rakic

Dear all, please let us remind you about the deadlines for IWST submissions that are approaching very fast. Furthermore, let me pre-announce that we (thanks to Tomohiro and Stef) are preparing a *Special Issue on Smalltalk Technologies in COLA Journal* https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-computer-languages. Submissions are planned to be open asap and up to 15.9.2023. and deadlines are usually strict. Please, start working on your articles. Have a nice weekend! Gordana On 11.4.23. 19:40, Gocrdana Rakic via Esug-list wrote: > > > Call For Papers > > > IWST 2023: International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies > /Lyon, France; August 29th-31st, 2023/ > > > */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 trigger 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* > > * > > Submission deadline: May 14th, 2023 > > * > > Notification deadline: June 11th, 2023 > > * > > Re-submission deadline: July 1st, 2023 > > * > > Workshop: August 29th-31st, 2023 > > > *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 > > > *Submissions, reviews, and selection* > > We are looking for papers of two kinds: > > * > > Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and > early results. > > * > > Long research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description > of experiments and of research results. > > Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the CEUR ART > 1-column style <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. > > All submissions must be sent via EasyChair submission page > <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst23>. > > > *Reviewing* > > Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Selected papers > will be invited to be presented at the workshop in Lyon and published > in the CEUR-WS Proceedings <https://ceur-ws.org/>. > > As the workshop form encourage 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, it may happen that submissions > with discussion potential be conditionally accepted. In this case > authors are expected to strictly follow the recommendation of the > reviewers and resubmit a new version for the second fast review by the > chairs in collaboration with assigned reviewers, and for making the > final decision. > > **Best Paper Award** > > To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST > organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for > this edition of IWST. > > We thank our financial contributors who make it possible for prizes > for the three best papers (estimated): 1000 USD for first place, 600 > USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. > > The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review > process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. > > The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six > submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper 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* > > * > > Stephane Ducasse, Inria Lille, France (chair), > > * > > Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (chair) > > > *Program committee* > > * > > Nour Agouf, Inria Lille, France, > > * > > Vincent Blondeau, Lifeware, Switzerland, > > * > > Cedrick Beler, Ecole Nationale d Ingenieurs de Tarbes, > Hautes-Pyrenees, France, > > * > > Nicolas Cardozo, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, > > * > > Celine Deknop, Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, > > * > > Michele Lanza, Software Institute, Universita della Svizzera > italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, > > * > > Eric Lepors, Thales DMS, France, > > * > > Dave Mason, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, > > * > > Kim Mens, Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, > > * > > Ana-Maria Oprescu, University of Amsterdam, Neatherlands, > > * > > Jean Privat, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, > > * > > Pooja Rani, University of Bern, Switzerland, > > * > > Larisa Safina, Inria Lille, France, > > * > > Joao Saraiva, University of Minho, Portugal, > > * > > Benoît Verhaeghe, Berger-Levrault, Lyon, France, > > * > > Oleksandr Zaytsev, Cirad, UMR SENS, France > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list --esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email toesug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org

April 21, 2023

Yoshiki Ohshima - Croquet Microverse - 26 April 2023

by Giovanni Corriga

For this month's online presentation, Yoshiki Ohshima will demonstrate the Croquet Microverse ( https://croquet.io/ ), which is a 3D collaborative construction environment. It is an incarnation of Smalltalk-based Croquet but instead implemented in JavaScript. Microverse allows a group of users to collaboratively create new objects in a virtual space, and describe their behaviors in the live programming manner that can be used by professional programmers. The object extension mechanism used in the Microverse is heavily influenced by past class and object extension mechanisms, many of which originated from experimentation and implementation in Smalltalk. Likewise, the architecture of the Microverse application framework draws upon other frameworks such as Morphic and AppKit. Yoshiki will explain the connections between those systems and the Microverse. Yoshiki ( https://tinlizzie.org/ohshima/ ) joined Walt Disney Imagineering R&D in 2000 as an intern while attending the graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology, and helped develop prototypes of Disney's theme park attractions. He also has been involved in Alan Kay's research group, and participated in the research and development effort of education programming environment Squeak Etoys and later took the leading role. Yoshiki has worked at the Viewpoints Research Institute, SAP Labs CDG, and Y Combinator Research, all of which Dr. Kay founded or helped found. He was awarded his PhD. for designing and implementing a massively parallel particle programming system from Tokyo Institute of Technology. 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/292570084/ ) to receive the meeting details.

April 20, 2023

[IWST 2023]Call for Papers

by Gocrdana Rakic

Call For Papers IWST 2023: International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies /Lyon, France; August 29th-31st, 2023/ */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 trigger 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* * Submission deadline: May 14th, 2023 * Notification deadline: June 11th, 2023 * Re-submission deadline: July 1st, 2023 * Workshop: August 29th-31st, 2023 *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 *Submissions, reviews, and selection* We are looking for papers of two kinds: * Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results. * Long research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the CEUR ART 1-column style <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. All submissions must be sent via EasyChair submission page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst23>. *Reviewing* Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Selected papers will be invited to be presented at the workshop in Lyon and published in the CEUR-WS Proceedings <https://ceur-ws.org/>. As the workshop form encourage 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, it may happen that submissions with discussion potential be conditionally accepted. In this case authors are expected to strictly follow the recommendation of the reviewers and resubmit a new version for the second fast review by the chairs in collaboration with assigned reviewers, and for making the final decision. **Best Paper Award** To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST. We thank our financial contributors who make it possible for prizes for the three best papers (estimated): 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper 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* * Stephane Ducasse, Inria Lille, France (chair), * Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (chair) *Program committee* * Nour Agouf, Inria Lille, France, * Vincent Blondeau, Lifeware, Switzerland, * Cedrick Beler, Ecole Nationale d Ingenieurs de Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrenees, France, * Nicolas Cardozo, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, * Celine Deknop, Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, * Michele Lanza, Software Institute, Universita della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, * Eric Lepors, Thales DMS, France, * Dave Mason, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, * Kim Mens, Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, * Ana-Maria Oprescu, University of Amsterdam, Neatherlands, * Jean Privat, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, * Pooja Rani, University of Bern, Switzerland, * Larisa Safina, Inria Lille, France, * Joao Saraiva, University of Minho, Portugal, * Benoît Verhaeghe, Berger-Levrault, Lyon, France, * Oleksandr Zaytsev, Cirad, UMR SENS, France

April 11, 2023

Live Music Performance with Pharo ...

by stephane ducasse

Hello, everybody. Lucrecio will perform with Pharo and Kyma (and making a workshop on the next day) for the satellite event of the International Live Coding Conference in Dusseldörf om May 5th/6th https://iclc.toplap.org/2023/satellite.html#duesseldorf-05-05 - the place looks really nice and it should be a really cool event. S

April 6, 2023

Smalltalk Meetup in Zurich, 12 May 2023

by Peter Ursprung

Hi all, We are organizing the next Smalltalk Meetup in Zurich, Switzerland. It will be on Friday, May 12, 2023, 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 let me know until Sunday, May 7, I will send you the details including the precise location. Also, if you would like to present something, please let me know as well. There will be enough time for some more talks. Regards, Peter -- Ursprung Software Loren-Allee 18 • 8610 Uster Telefon 044 450 72 72 • info(a)ursprung.ch

March 31, 2023

UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday 29th March

by Giovanni Corriga

This month's online meeting introduces a new format whereby we'll give space to commercial companies to discuss how they make use of Smalltalk and contribute to the Smalltalk community. The first of this series will be Mercap Software ( https://www.mercapsoftware.com/en/ ), represented by Gabriel Cotelli, Inés Sosa, Iván Boaretto, Matías Fernandez, and Maximiliano Tabacman. During this talk, Mercap will showcase five of their solutions designed for different types of investors. They will shed light on how Mercap benefits from the open-source projects maintained by the Buenos Aires Smalltalk group on GitHub. They will share with you how they use these freely available frameworks to interact with databases, operate on math and time units, create custom CSS, declare interactions on web applications, display complex charts, manage application startup, and streamline the creation of Docker images. Gabriel Cotelli is a CS bachelor, continuous learner & free-thinker. Supporter of libre knowledge, human intelligence augmentation and open source software. Working in Smalltalk at Mercap since 2004. He's an active member of the Smalltalk development community and regular contributor to open source projects in Buenos Aires Smalltalk and Pharo. Inés Sosa writes code in Smalltalk. Iván Boaretto is a software developer by day and a computer science student by night. He is very passionate about his craft and is always striving to improve. Now, in his first time at the Smalltalks, he is looking to attract new blood to the wonderful Smalltalk community. Matías Fernandez is a software and tech enthusiast, and Smalltalk developer. Maximiliano Tabacman has been a part of Mercap since he started his studies in IT, which now include a PhD in Computer Sciences from the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA). His main interest is the design of systems that apply nature inspired concepts, such as evolutionary algorithms and neural networks. Smalltalk, with its object-message design, is his natural choice for a development platform. He is also the creator of ERA, a standalone web server application for running table-top roleplaying games, which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. 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/292128721/ ) to receive the meeting details.

March 21, 2023

Looking for a job.

by Santiago Bragagnolo

Hello everybody. I am finishing my PhD soon, an industrial PhD on software migration. A quick brief: I have 10 years of experience in Pharo and another 10 years in other technologies. I want to learn if there are any opening positions for working in Pharo/Smalltalk. Please feel free to talk to me privately. I attached my CV. Cordially, Santiago.

March 5, 2023

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - 22 February 2023

by Giovanni Corriga

WebAssembly (WASM - https://wikiwand.com/en/Webassembly ) is an instruction format for portable high-performance code, run by a stack-based virtual machine. To Smalltalkers, this sounds very familiar. WASM is supported by the three most popular web browsers, and by other host platforms as well. Perhaps we can translate certain Smalltalk compiled methods to WASM, augmenting our support for physical processors and for livecoding the Web. For our February meeting, Craig Latta will describe his initial experiments, using the Epigram compilation framework ( https://thiscontext.com/epigram ). Craig Latta ( https://thiscontext.com/ ) is a research computer scientist in Berkeley and Amsterdam, with interests including livecoding, music performance, and interactive visualization. The discovery of a mysteriously-placed copy of the Blue Book at university led to stints at several exploratory labs, and a pursuit of improvisation wherever code is found. 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/291365015/ ) to receive the meeting details.

Feb. 14, 2023