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SPLASH 2019 2nd Combined Call for Workshop Submissions
by Aggelos Biboudis July 12, 2019

July 12, 2019

Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH will host a variety of workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. The following workshops will be co-located with SPLASH 2019. * AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) * AI-SEPS (AI-Inspired and Empirical Methods for Software Engineering on Parallel Computing Systems) * DSM (Domain-Specific Modeling) * IC (Incremental Computing) * LIVE (Live Programming) * META (Metaprogramming) * NJR (Normalized Java Resource) * REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems) * STOKED (Spatio-Temporal platforms for Observations and Knowledge of Earth Data) * VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) *The submission deadline for all workshops is Fri 2 Aug 2019 (AoE).* AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) ------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/agere-2019 The AGERE! workshop focuses on programming systems, languages, and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents, and -- more generally -- on high-level programming paradigms which promote decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. AGERE covers both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. AI-SEPS (AI-Inspired and Empirical Methods for SE on Parallel Computing Systems) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/seps-2019 The AI-SEPS workshop provides a stable forum for researchers and practitioners addressing the challenges and issues of the software development life cycle on modern parallel platforms and HPC systems. Emerging artificial intelligence technologies are promising approaches to tackle these issues, as well as approaches that use traditional empirical and experimental methods. The workshop title reflects a change from the previous editions, with emphasis placed on the trend of AI-inspired software engineering techniques for performance. We aim to advance the state of the art in all aspects of techniques on software engineering and parallel computing systems such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis; performance analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging. DSM (Domain-Specific Modeling) ------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/dsm-2019 Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) languages provide a viable and time-tested solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction, and thus productivity, beyond coding, making systems and software development faster and easier. In DSM, the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the application domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive themselves as working directly with domain concepts. Some possible topics for submission to the workshop include: experience reports, creation of metamodel-based languages, novel approaches for code generation from domain-specific models, language evolution, metamodeling frameworks and languages, and tool support for DSMs. IC (Incremental Computing) ----------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/ic-2019 The second Workshop on Incremental Computing (IC) will provide a space where PL enthusiasts and researchers can discuss incremental computing problems and solutions. A good talk at IC probably consists of one or more of the following: explain an existing language or framework for incremental computing; outline an incremental computing domain in detail, highlighting challenges; outline a new incremental computing problem, or problem domain; or, propose a new language or framework for incremental computing. This list is not exhaustive, but merely suggestive. LIVE (Live Programming) ----------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/live-2019 The LIVE workshop invites submissions of ideas for improving programming via liveness. Live programming gives the programmer immediate feedback on the behavior of a program as it is edited, replacing the edit-compile-debug cycle with a fluid programming experience. The most commonly used live programming environment is the spreadsheet, but there are many others. The study of live programming is now a [re-]established area of research. This year we would like to reflect on what has been achieved, what has been learnt, and what remains to be done, growing up from a nascent community into a discipline that can build on previous work. We especially welcome reflection upon prior work, including proposals to integrate, generalize, or theoretically frame them. We will do this whilst maintaining the shared spirit of LIVE, encouraging a focus on the human experience of programming. The LIVE workshop is a forum for early-stage work to receive constructive criticism. We accept short papers, web essays with embedded videos, and demo videos. META (Metaprogramming) ---------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/meta-2019 The changing hardware and software landscape along with the increased heterogeneity of systems make metaprogramming once more an important research topic to handle the associated complexity. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions, or software tools using them. The challenges which metaprogramming faces are manifold. They start with formal reasoning about reflective programs, continue with performance and tooling, and reach into the empirical field to understand how metaprogramming is used and how it affects software maintainability. While industry accepted metaprogramming on a wide scale with Ruby, Scala, JavaScript and others, academia still needs to bring it to the same level of convenience, tooling, and understanding as for direct programming styles. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to the design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as formal methods and empirical studies for such systems and languages. NJR (Normalized Java Resource) ------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/njr-2019 Software researchers increasingly take advantage of large software repositories when they design new tools. How do we make such repositories maximally useful for research? In particular, how do we make them more searchable, make interaction scriptable, and ensure that we can run both static and dynamic analyses? Additionally, how do we make the results from tools reproducible, how do we label programs with ground truth, and how do we measure whether a repository is representative of real-world applications? NJR 2019 will be the third workshop in a series that addresses these questions. The goal is for researchers in academia and industry to share new ideas, demonstrate recent tools, and discuss directions for research and development. REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages and Systems) ------------------------------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/rebls-2019 Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design -- so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) -- have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work. STOKED (Spatio-Temporal platforms for Observations and Knowledge of Earth Data) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/stoked-2019 Global coverage and temporal resolutions of earth observation imagery data is increasing at an unprecedented rate, generating trillions of new pixels of data daily. The challenge with this "big data" is finding practical ways to extract knowledge and deliver it to end users at scale, both due to the complex nature and the sheer volume of information. Detailed, standardized geographic information is required to enable a new era of spatial temporal analytics—enabling insights to understand, monitor, and manage the earth’s resources in a sustainable manner. This can be accomplished through massive aggregation of data from remote sensors coupled with novel approaches to preparing, analyzing, and interacting with data. Modern spatio-temporal platforms will soon be using 3D visual interactive maps with close to real-time deep learning algorithms. In addition to system infrastructure and UI/UX challenges, we also need to address the normalization problems of data, particularly with data generated from multiple sensors. Use cases in climate change and emergency response in "extreme events" would see immediate benefit from this kind of platform. STOKED will provide an opportunity for researchers and stakeholders from this broad spectrum of applications and domains to start to design future platforms from an interdisciplinary perspective. VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) -------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/vmil-2019 The concept of Virtual Machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual Machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use, and related issues.

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Please do not wait the last moment to register to the conference
by Stéphane Ducasse June 27, 2019

June 27, 2019

Dear Smalltalk Friends, Please do not wait the last moment to register to the conference, it will greatly help us for the organisation. Stephane on the behalf of ESUG board. -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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GPCE 2019: Final Call for Papers - Athens, Greece; October 21-22 — Deadline Extension
by Rodin Aarssen June 17, 2019

June 17, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS — Deadline Extension 18th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2019) October 21-22, 2019 Athens, Greece (co-located with SPLASH 2019) https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019 http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES Deadlines have been extended by one week from the earlier announcements: * Submission of abstracts: June 21, 2019 * Submission of papers: June 28, 2019 * Paper notification: August 9, 2019 Submission site: https://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: * program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, * domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, * feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, * applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the program co-chairs whether their planned papers are in scope. PAPER SELECTION The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection criteria: * Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. * Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. * Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. * Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. PAPER CATEGORIES GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. * Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords "Tool Demo" or "Tool Demonstration" in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. PAPER SUBMISSION All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart", using the "sigplan" sub-format, and 10 point font. Additional details and links to templates and the LaTeX class file can be found on the conference web site: https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. GPCE will follow a very lightweight model, where author identities are revealed to reviewers after submitting their initial reviews. Hence, the purpose is not to conceal author identities at all cost, but merely to provide reviewers with an unbiased first look at a submission. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors' own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program co-chairs. ORGANIZATION Chairs * General chair: Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig) * Program co-chair: Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University) * Program co-chair: Tijs van der Storm (CWI / University of Groningen) Program Committee * Jonathan Aldrich (CMU) * Juliana Alves Pereira (University of Rennes, INRIA) * Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto) * Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo) * Thomas Degueule (CWI) * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) * Robert Glück (University of Copenhagen) * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (VUB) * Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University) * Chris Martens (NCSU) * Maryam Mehri Dehnavi (University of Toronto) * Peter Mosses (Swansea University / TU Delft) * David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Larissa Rocha Soares (Federal University of Bahia) * Ulrik Schultz (University of Southern Denmark) * Sandro Schulze (University of Magdeburg) * Christoph Seidl (TU Braunschweig) * Michel Steuwer (University of Glasgow) * Sam Tobin Hochstadt (Indiana University) * Kanae Tsushima (National Institute of Informatics) * Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) * Adam Welc (Uber) * Peng Wu (Huawei)

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Fwd: [Pharo-dev] Any Pharoer in Geneva
by Stéphane Ducasse June 16, 2019

June 16, 2019

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Hilaire <hilaire(a)drgeo.eu> > Subject: [Pharo-dev] Any Pharoer in Geneva > Date: 16 June 2019 at 10:55:44 CEST > To: pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org > Reply-To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org> > > (asking there too) > > Hi, > > I will likely start a course on programming with Pharo through > Dr.Geo and student text book I am writing [1]. > > Anyone in Geneva interested on Pharo teaching? > > Hilaire > > [1] > https://launchpad.net/drgeo/trunk/19.06/+download/programmer-avec-drgeo.pdf > > -- > Dr. Geo > http://drgeo.eu > > > -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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Call for sponsors is open - Smalltalks Conference 2019
by Mariano Martinez Peck June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019

Greetings all, I am contacting you on behalf of FAST organization [1] in case you may be interested in sponsoring Smalltalks Conference 2019 [2]. Here [3] is a brochure with some details about the conference, what we do and the importance of the sponsors [4]. We provide different categories to suite different possibilities. If you are interested or have questions please contact me and I can give you all the details about the categories or any further information you may want. We would also appreciate if you can help us pass the word about it [5] (either by mail, linkedin, forums, google groups, mailing lists, twitter, or whatever). Kind regards, PS: Sorry for the multiple copies you may get. [1] https://www.fast.org.ar/ [2] https://smalltalks2019.fast.org.ar/ [3] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IFjFrWeW-tpJhIkENNJE5pPIytquaDzF [4] https://www.fast.org.ar/get-involved/sponsorship [5] https://twitter.com/fast_arg/status/1128015197636050945 -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/

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ESUG call for talks and registration
by Stéphane Ducasse June 9, 2019

June 9, 2019

Please distribute the following call The ESUG board is pleased to announce that the 27th ESUG conference/summer-school will be held in Cologne, Germany 26-30 August 2019; with Camp Smalltalk 24-25 August 2019. The conference is co-organized by ZWEIDENKER. More information at: https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/call2019.html <https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/call2019.html> The registration is available at: https://registration.esug.org The submissions for talks at: Submissions deadline is 15 of July 2019 (Pay attention early registration will end up 22 of July 2019) Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. Prospective presenters should submit a PR https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2019-Conference/talks <https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2019-Conference/talks> If you do not succeed to do a PR you can send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr with [ESUG2019] in the title Title: Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio: Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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GPCE 2019: 2nd Call for Papers - Athens, Greece; October 21-22
by Rodin Aarssen June 6, 2019

June 6, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2019) October 21-22, 2019 Athens, Greece (co-located with SPLASH 2019) https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019 http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 14, 2019 * Submission of papers: June 21, 2019 * Paper notification: August 9, 2019 Submission site: https://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: * program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, * domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, * feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, * applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the program co-chairs whether their planned papers are in scope. PAPER SELECTION The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection criteria: * Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. * Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. * Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. * Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. PAPER CATEGORIES GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. * Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords "Tool Demo" or "Tool Demonstration" in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. PAPER SUBMISSION All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart", using the "sigplan" sub-format, and 10 point font. Additional details and links to templates and the LaTeX class file can be found on the conference web site: https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. GPCE will follow a very lightweight model, where author identities are revealed to reviewers after submitting their initial reviews. Hence, the purpose is not to conceal author identities at all cost, but merely to provide reviewers with an unbiased first look at a submission. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors' own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program co-chairs. ORGANIZATION Chairs * General chair: Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig) * Program co-chair: Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University) * Program co-chair: Tijs van der Storm (CWI / University of Groningen) Program Committee * Jonathan Aldrich (CMU) * Juliana Alves Pereira (University of Rennes, INRIA) * Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto) * Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo) * Thomas Degueule (CWI) * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) * Robert Glück (University of Copenhagen) * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (VUB) * Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University) * Chris Martens (NCSU) * Maryam Mehri Dehnavi (University of Toronto) * Peter Mosses (Swansea University / TU Delft) * David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Larissa Rocha Soares (Federal University of Bahia) * Ulrik Schultz (University of Southern Denmark) * Sandro Schulze (University of Magdeburg) * Christoph Seidl (TU Braunschweig) * Michel Steuwer (University of Glasgow) * Sam Tobin Hochstadt (Indiana University) * Kanae Tsushima (National Institute of Informatics) * Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) * Adam Welc (Uber) * Peng Wu (Huawei)

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ESUG'19 registration is open
by Luc Fabresse May 21, 2019

May 21, 2019

Dear Smalltalkers, I am glad to announce that the ESUG'19 registration is open. You will find all infos about this year conference here: https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/conf2019.html Note that: - we increased some prices a little compared to the same prices we had for more than 10 years: Early Registration Fee: 500€ (all days) / 180€ (per day) The early registration deadline is: July 25th 2019 Late Registration Fee: 660€ (all days) / 210€ (per day) - you can now directly add an extra person to social dinner while registering (+60€) - we introduced specific fees for payment methods: Payment by credit card (paypal): +6% fees Payment by bank transfer: free of charge Bests, Luc

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[preANN] ESUG 2019: Cologne Aug 26 to 30
by Marcus Denker May 21, 2019

May 21, 2019

Hello, We are happy to announce that we finally managed to fix everything for the 2019 edition: ZWEIDENKER is hosting ESUG 2019 in Cologne/Germany. It will be the last week of August (26 to 30). The address of the conference venue is: Stadtgarten, Venloer Strasse 40, 50672 Köln / Germany https://www.stadtgarten.de/en/stadtgarten/anfahrt We will add more information about Hotels and open the reservation system as soon as possible.

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ESUG 2019 - Call for IWST
by Stéphane Ducasse May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

Here is the announce for the IWST19 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Cologne, Germany; August 27-29th, 2019 More information at: https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/cfpIWST2019.html On behalf of the pc chairs

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