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Couch surfing
by Johan Briglia July 10, 2014

July 10, 2014

Hi all, This year I'll be one of the several student volunteers (to offer my help in the next ESUG) and I actually need a little help for a little something about it. As a student I had to choose the cheapest traveling agenda, so I will arrive one day earlier than expected. It's not a problem but I need to find a place to sleep between Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th. So I'm asking if anyone would be so kind to lend me a couch just for a night? I don't take much space, and I can cook! ;) As a relatively new smalltalker, I think it best to introduce myself: I'm Johan Briglia, PhD student in Psychology at Montpellier (south of France) where I'm working on the emergence of human memory and complex behaviors from neural networks. I'm using smalltalk to emulate dynamical networks in order to test some psychological theories, as a consolidation of AI research. Thank you for your help, and see you soon anyway! Johan

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Fwd: Squeak-Treffen am 12.Juli 2014, Potsdam
by Bert Freudenberg July 8, 2014

July 8, 2014

We're having a Squeak get-together this Saturday. I'm forwarding this reminder for the German-speaking folks who are not subscribed to the German Squeak list ... everyone is welcome. - Bert - Begin forwarded message: > From: Michael Perscheid <michaelperscheid(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: [Squeak-ev] Reminder: Squeak-Treffen am 12.Juli 2014, Potsdam > Date: 8. Juli 2014 19:21:30 MESZ > To: Squeak in Germany / Squeak in Deutschland <squeak-ev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > Reply-To: Squeak in Germany / Squeak in Deutschland <squeak-ev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > > Liebe Squeaker, > > nochmals zu Erinnerung. Unser jährliches Squeak-Treffen findet kommenden > Samstag in Potsdam statt. > > * Wann? > Samstag, 12. Juli 2014 ab 13:00 h > > * Wo? > Hasso-Plattner-Institute > Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Straße 2-3 > 14482 Potsdam > > Anfahrt: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/campus/anfahrt.html > > Raum: H-E.51 (dies ist diesmal im Hauptgebäude siehe Karte beim Link) > > * Inhalt? > 13:00-16:00 Vorträge rund um Squeak > Wir haben noch ein paar freie Slots. Weitere Themen sind daher > gern gesehen. > > 16:00-17:00 SqueakEd/Tec Organisation > > 17:00-18:00 Vereinsversammlung > - Bestimmung des Protokollführers und der Kassenprüfer > - Feststellung der Beschlussfähigkeit > - Vorstellung / Änderung der Tagesordnung > - Aktivitäten des Vereins 2013-2014 > - Bericht des Schatzmeisters und der Kassenprüfer > - Künftige Aktivitäten > - Sonstiges > > Anschließend Ausklang in gemütlicher Runde in Potsdam. > (Albers: http://gleis6.vpweb.de/?prefix=www) > > Wir hoffen Euch wieder zahlreich in Potsdam treffen zu können. > > Vielen Dank an Robert Hirschfeld und der ganzen Software-Architektur Gruppe in > Potsdam für die alljährliche Organisation und Bereitstellung von Räumlichkeiten. > > Für Fragen stehen wir natürlich sehr gerne zur Verfügung. > > Viele Grüße > Esther, Rita und Micha > > --- > Michael Perscheid > michaelperscheid(a)googlemail.com > http://www.michaelperscheid.de/ >

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ESUG'14 early registration deadline is close
by Luc Fabresse July 7, 2014

July 7, 2014

Hi Smalltalkers, I kindly remind you that the early registration deadline to ESUG'14 is next week: july, 16th. http://registration.esug.org So far, we have 83 attendees! See you all @ Cambridge, Best, #Luc

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Need a native english speaker with a bit of time to help for ESUG
by Stéphane Ducasse July 5, 2014

July 5, 2014

Hi Smalltalkers We need some help to organize the catering for ESUG 2014: basically lunches. We need someone to help us helping david and us dealing with meals. We could do it but we are not native speakers so sometimes we do not understand the implications or vocabularies. We selected a list of companies and we need to get offers and probably some menus. Please contact me directly. Stef and Luc

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[ANN] SqueakJS 0.2 released, now runs Etoys
by Bert Freudenberg July 4, 2014

July 4, 2014

Hi all, my SqueakJS VM has reached a major milestone. It is now sufficiently complete to run a full Etoys image (and possibly other non-closure images, too). It has support for most BitBlt modes, WarpBlt, even some Balloon2D rendering (for TTF fonts), a virtual file system, image saving etc. Try it: http://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/etoys/ (Safari and IE are significantly faster than Firefox and Chrome, best is Safari Webkit nightly, works on iPad too, hopefully Android) For more details, see my blogpost: http://croquetweak.blogspot.de/2014/07/squeakjs-runs-etoys-now.html Feedback and contributions welcome :) - Bert -

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[ESUG2014] 2places in cambridge for 22-23Aug available
by Yuriy Tymchuk July 2, 2014

July 2, 2014

Hi everyone, in case you need to stay in Cambridge on a night after the conference (22-23 Aug), I have 2 tickets in Trinity Hall's Wichfield site for EUR55 (each). Let me know if you are interested because in case of reselling tickets to you I need to extend my booking in London and it may be not possible closer to the conference itself. Cheers. Yuriy

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[ANN] Amber 0.12.6 released!
by Nicolas Petton July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

Hi! After two months of development we are happy to announce the release of Amber 0.12.6 (skipping 0.12.5 for technical reasons). The team has once again been busy improving Amber to make it rock more than ever! With 260 commits done by 8 contributors, this release brings several important improvements as well as the usual bug fixes. Highlights: - Helios now has a test runner - The `amber-cli` npm package installs the CLI tooling. `amber` is not to be installed globally any more. Instead, install `amber-cli` with `npm install -g amber-cli`. - New `amber-init` command: After installing the cli tooling, `amber init` initializes a new project. - `amber` and `amberc` cli tools can now be found in the `external` directory and in dedicated npm packages. - Amber now parses `$c` character literals. - Bootstrap 3 can be used in Amber projects (no more nameclash with Helios' bootstrap 2 using bootstrap2.3.2 name). - Wider range of jQuery versions allowed. API changes: + String >> + value: + ProtocolAnnouncement >> + package + Behavior >> + isTestClass + Package >> + isTestPackage + amber/{devel,deploy,lang} exports + nil + amber/helpers exports + nil We would like to thank the contributors who made this release possible, and especially Ryan Simmons for his work on the Helios Test Runner. /The Amber crew.

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Pharo Academic Partner Program
by Stéphane Ducasse June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

Dear Friends The Pharo consortium http://consortium.pharo.org is launching a new program in direction to academic partners: teachers, Universities and research institutes. We realized that the advantages/duties to be an academic member were unclear. We really want to build a strong community. http://files.pharo.org/consortium/Membership%20Agreement%20for%20Academic%2… Here are the key facts extracted from the document. Here are the main advantages as an academic partner: - Direct access to Pharo core developers via an automatic subscription to a specific mailing list. - Access to Pharo documents and courses. - Its logo posted on the Pharo Website Academic pages. - The possibility to propose and participate in actions. Here are the main duties (which you are already doing): - Put a link to Pharo Consortium Website from its institutional website. - When using Pharo to teach, create web pages with document courses related to Pharo. - Provide Inria with an annual report of at most half a page of its actions to promote and sustain Pharo. As member of the Pharo Consortium, the Academic Partner shall make its best efforts to: - Give courses on Pharo or related topics to its students - Participate to the development of open source software libraries in Pharo - Participate to selected Pharo mailing lists : pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org and/or pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org - Participate in the authoring of open-source books on Pharo and related topics. We really hope that you will register and help us making Pharo grow and be a really cool and friendly ecosystem. The Pharo Board.

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A Smalltalk job at Yesplan?
by Johan Brichau June 24, 2014

June 24, 2014

Dear Smalltalkers, The Yesplan team is looking for a new development colleague! This is a full time position to be performed on site. We are not looking for a freelancer. Please see [1] for the full description of the vacancy. Dutch speakers can check out the Dutch version [2]. If you are interested, or if you have additional questions, please contact me via johan(a)yesplan.be Also, do not hesitate to forward this email to potential candidates. best regards Johan [1] http://yesplan.be/docs/vacancy-software-engineer.pdf [2] http://yesplan.be/docs/vacature-software-engineer.pdf

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Re: [Esug-list] [IMPORTANT] Accommodation booking @ ESUG'14
by David Chisnall June 23, 2014

June 23, 2014

On 30 May 2014, at 11:49, Sabine Knöfel <sabine.knoefel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > *can you please send a google maps link or address to the computer lab (to > find hotels nearby)? The computer lab is in the William Gates Building: http://osm.org/go/0EQSAZ2Po-?layers=N&m= The accommodation that we have reserved is in Trinity Hall's Wychfield site, just down the road: http://osm.org/go/0EQSDPLdZ-?layers=N&m= (No Google Maps links because their map data is shockingly bad in Cambridge) > *will you also provide a list of hotel suggestions like the last year? We don't have a list of hotels other than the university accommodation. There aren't many on this side of Cambridge. The Møller Centre is very convenient, but unfortunately is fully booked for the week of the conference. Arundel House is fairly close (20-25 minutes walk, 5 minutes bike): http://www.arundelhousehotels.co.uk/cambridge/ There is a YourSpace apartment on Chesterton Road that is a similar distance and may be of interest: http://www.yourspaceapartments.com MSR Cambridge has a list of recommended hotels, but they've now moved to the other end of town, so the locations are not optimal: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cambridge/accommodations.aspx Hotel Felix is very nice, but a bit out of town (not too bad for getting to the CL on a bike): http://www.hotelfelix.co.uk There's a Doubletree by Hilton on the backs, which is about 25 minutes walk (5-10 minute cycle) from the CL, but very convenient for town (including the conference dinner). The Hotel du Vin is very nice, but a little bit further away from the CL: https://www.hotelduvin.com/locations/cambridge/ I hope this helps, David

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