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[Smalltalks 2014] --- Invitation
by Andres Valloud Sept. 9, 2014

Sept. 9, 2014

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Why Non - Pharoing companies should support open-source?
by Stéphane Ducasse Sept. 4, 2014

Sept. 4, 2014

Dear ESUG members, Some of you may have miss my talk from ESUG. My point is important for the future: I motivate that even if you do not develop in Pharo it is important for you (and the complete community) to support a strong open-source movement. Check http://consortium.pharo.org "Why Non - Pharoing companies should invest in open-source?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nab6ArIzo6c&list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi_6yyRLsMMBqG8Y… http://www.slideshare.net/pharoproject/2014-pharo-consortiumfornonpharoers http://www.slideshare.net/pharoproject/2014-esugpharo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZq2IZBm4k&list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi_6yyRLsMMBqG8Y… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mv7SX-8Vlk&index=44&list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi_6yyR… I hope that this will convince you to support the good energy and the work we are doing since more than a decade now. Feel free to contact me. Stef

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SPLASH 2014 - Call For Participation
by Craig Anslow Sept. 2, 2014

Sept. 2, 2014

/*************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'14) Portland, Oregon, USA 20-24 October, 2014 http://www.splashcon.org<http://www.splashcon.org/> http://twitter.com/splashcon http://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **************************************************************/ The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH is now inviting calls for participation. ** REGISTRATION ** 19 September 2014 (Early Deadline) Contact: info(a)splashcon.org<mailto:info@splashcon.org> http://2014.splashcon.org/attending/registration ** CONFERENCE PROGRAM ** http://2014.splashcon.org/program/program-splash2014 ** KEYNOTE Speakers ** Gary McGraw (Cigital): Software Security — A Study in Technology Transfer Peter Norvig (Google): Machine Learning for Programming Bret Victor (WorryDream): Humane Representation of Thought: A Trail Map for the 21st Century http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-keynotes ** OOPSLA Research Papers** Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). http://2014.splashcon.org/track/oopsla2014 ** Onward! Research Papers ** 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. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/onward2014-papers ** Onward! Essays ** Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps that by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/onward2014-essays ** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) ** DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages — from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript — on real-world practice, and research, continues to grow. We invite high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/dls14-papers ** Wavefront ** The SPLASH Wavefront track is looking for presentations and technology talks of interest to the software community, particularly to software professionals working in companies large and small. Wavefront is a forum for presenting experience reports and tutorials about innovative tools, technologies, and software practices. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-wavefront ** Panels ** The Panels track offers exciting discussion about topics related to SPLASH. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-panels ** SPLASH-E ** The SPLASH-E track brings together researchers and educators to share educational results, ideas, and challenges centered in Software and Programming Languages. Submission formats vary, including papers, tool demos, lightning talks, challenge-topics for discussion, and suggested themes for "unconference" sessions. Help us create an engaging forum for educational issues related to SPLASH! http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-splash-e ** Artifacts ** The Artifact Evaluation process is a service provided by the community to help authors of accepted papers provide more substantial supplements to their papers so future researchers can more effectively build on and compare with previous work. The Artifact Evaluation Committee has been formed to assess how well paper authors prepare artifacts in support of such future researchers. Roughly, authors of papers who wish to participate are invited to submit an artifact that supports the conclusions of the paper. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-artifacts ** Workshops ** The SPLASH Workshops track will host a variety of high-quality workshops (14 in total), 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. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-workshops ** Tutorials ** The SPLASH Tutorials track will consist of prestigious tutorials on current topics in software, systems, and languages research. The scope of the tutorials is the same as the conference itself: all aspects of software construction and delivery at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. The tutorials in particular focus on the nexus between research and practice, including work that takes inspiration from or builds connections to areas not commonly considered at SPLASH. Tutorials should introduce researchers to current research in an area, or show important new tools that can be used in research. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-tutorials ** Demos ** The SPLASH Demonstrations track is an excellent vehicle for sharing your latest work with an experienced and technically savvy audience. Live demonstrations show the impact of software innovation. Demonstrations are not product sales pitches, but rather an opportunity to highlight, explain, and present interesting technical aspects of running applications in a dynamic and highly interactive setting. Presenters are encouraged to actively solicit feedback from the audience, which should lead to very interesting and entertaining demonstration sessions. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-demos ** Posters ** The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Posters can be independent presentations or associated with one of the other parts of SPLASH. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-posters ** Doctoral Symposium ** The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The Symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-ds ** Student Research Competition ** The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session’s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. http://2014.splashcon.org/track/splash2014-src ** Co-located Events ** ACM SIGAda’s Annual International Conference High Integrity Language Technology (HILT) http://sigada.org/conf/hilt2014/ Multicore Parallel Programming Course: - Offers experienced programmers an opportunity to learn about multicore programming and gain mastery of cutting-edge parallel programming tools. - Contact: Danny Dig: http://dig.cs.illinois.edu/ ** Location ** Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel Portland, Oregon, USA ** Organization ** SPLASH General Chair: Andrew Black (Portland State University) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Todd Millstein (University of California, Los Angeles) Onward! Papers Chair: Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University) Onward! Essays Chair: Bernd Bruegge (TU Munich) DLS Papers Chair: Laurence Tratt (King’s College, London) SPLASH-E Chair: Kathi Fisler (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Wavefront Co-Chairs: David Archer (Galois) and Dennis Mancl (Alcatel-Lucent) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Matthias Hauswirth (university of Lugano) and Robby Findler (Northwestern University) Workshop Co-Chairs: Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University) and Du Li (Carnegie Mellon University) Tutorials Chair: James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Demos Chair: Floreal Morandat (Enseirb-Matmeca) Posters Co-Chairs: K R Jayaram (IBM Research) and Nick Sumner (Simon Fraser University) Doctoral Symposium Chair: Lukasz Ziarek (State University of New York, Buffalo) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: Isil Dillig (University of Texas, Austin) and Sam Guyer (Tufts University) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Jonathan Bell (Columbia University) and Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University) Publicity and Web Chair: Craig Anslow (University of Calgary) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology) Publications Chair: Joseph Ruskiewicz (Portland State University) Student Mentoring Chair: Carlos Jensen (Oregon State University) Mobile App Chair: Reid Holmes (University of Waterloo) /*************************************************************/ Kind regards, Craig Craig Anslow, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Computer Science University of Calgary, Canada T: 403 210 8159 E: craig.anslow(a)ucalgary.ca W: http://anslow.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

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Thank you
by Holger Kleinsorgen Sept. 2, 2014

Sept. 2, 2014

Hello, kudos to the organizers & participants of this greate event, I enjoyed my first ESUG a lot. Lots of interesting stuff from the past, present and future. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Thank-you-tp4774836.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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ESUG 2014 Slides: first batch in the Archive
by Marcus Denker Aug. 29, 2014

Aug. 29, 2014

Hi, All Slides that where given to the Student Volunteers are now in the archive: http://esug.org/data/ESUG2014/ -> Some Slides are missing. If you do not see yours —> send them to me. (I will contact people directly in addition) -> The slides will be uploaded to SlideShare slowly and then linked in the Video descriptions on youtube. This will be done slowly over the next week. Marcus

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[ESUG-Offtopic] Looking for a Smalltalk job
by Santiago Bragagnolo Aug. 28, 2014

Aug. 28, 2014

Hi everyone. Sorry because of the offtopic. I am actively looking for a job, and i was wondering if there is any smalltalk position available. My CV is attached. Contact me by private message, to keep the list clean :). Thank you very much. Santiago.

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Roassal contest result
by Alexandre Bergel Aug. 21, 2014

Aug. 21, 2014

Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is a great pleasure for me to announce the result of the 2014 Roassal contest organized by ObjectProfile.com Certificates and the money awards were delivered during a ceremony held at the Esug conference, in Cambridge, UK. This year we have two winners: Roassal2 track: “RTVoronyjBuilder” by Natalia Tymchuk http://youtu.be/SlJptrlBbho Roassal 3d track: "Roassal City Layouts”, by Yuriy Tymchuk http://youtu.be/CuimMwuZiGA Other remarkable contributions: "Navigate and visualize epidemiological models with the KendrickBrowser”, by Fabrice Atrevi https://vimeo.com/103197416 "Explora Qualitas Corpus", by Leonel Merino http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eoSV7LdPac The very same contest will be organized next year. Cheers, Alexandre on behalf of the Object Profile crew

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-dev] Quitting the community
by Tudor Girba Aug. 19, 2014

Aug. 19, 2014

Hi Ben, Thanks for letting us know. I am sorry you feel this way, but I believe your presentation of the situation is both unfair and unfortunate. You are obviously referring to issues that are of personal nature, and as outsiders we are left with only an ugly feeling without being able to either understand or fix anything. I was actually having fun until your email, and as far as I can tell, others were having fun as well. I am not sure what the intention of your email was, but at least for me, your mail did manage to spoil the fun for a second. I appreciate the work you put in Pharo, I respect your decision, but I do not sympathize with your behavior. Good luck, Doru On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Benjamin < benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I am sending this email to explain why I am quiting the Pharo community, > as well as the Smalltalk community. > > I can not bear Stephane Ducasse's behavior anymore whether at a public > level or a private level. > > It seems that his ego is preventing him from being able to have a > discussion > without overreacting, being agressive, or insulting. > > I can not approve how Stephane is constantly talking behind my back to > unleash > his irrationnal wrath and to provide his very own version of the facts. > > I can not see how this can lead to a peaceful and respectful community > where we can all have fun building a future. > > Therefore I will not be part of this project anymore, since the way > Stephane > is acting is taking away all the fun I can have interacting with all of > you. > > It was a hard decision to take, but I can not be part of a community led > by someone whose behaviour is going against all my principles. > > I wish to all of you to have fun, and keep me in touch > if you want to have a beer someday ;) > > Ben > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] [ANN] Live Robot Programming
by Johan Fabry Aug. 16, 2014

Aug. 16, 2014

Thanks to both :-) Daniel: Contributions from you will be certainly very welcome :-) But watch out, to be able to remote control the EV3 you also need a WiFi key, specifically the Netgear N150 (WNA1100 chipset). Only that one works, and they are getting harder to find these days :-( On Aug 14, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Lemuus <lemuus(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome!!! now I really need to get a Lego Mindstorms EV3 :) > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo <santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Great Johan! Congrats for both of you :) > > > 2014-08-14 22:37 GMT+02:00 Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl>: > > > Aargh, copy-paste error. The Lego robot example is on Instagram of course :-) > > http://instagram.com/p/pEhm0Oj837/ > > > On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, or LRP for short. > > > > LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA > > > > Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live programming nested state machines as well. > > > > More information on LRP is available on its website: http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. > > > > LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. > > > > Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a robot). > > > > All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Moose-dev mailing list > > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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Award.... new process :)
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 15, 2014

Aug. 15, 2014

Hi smalltalkers for the awards it seems that the registration server has still a problem. I suggest that you prepare your video and that you send a title and a little description of your project as a reply to this mail. We will manage it differently but we will do this great competition. Stef

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