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Pharo-Business: a new mailing-list
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 26, 2014

Feb. 26, 2014

Dear Pharoers and Smalltalkers from all over the world we would really like to push business in our community and we believe that it is important to create a community around business questions. We created a new mailing-list http://lists.pharo.org/mailman/listinfo/pharo-business_lists.pharo.org The idea is to identify - potential market - missing technical solutions that we could build together. - share technical assets from a business perspective (which frameworks for what). We hope that you will like the idea and that more business can emerge.

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Our Summer of Code application was rejected
by Paolo Bonzini Feb. 25, 2014

Feb. 25, 2014

Hi all, unfortunately I have to bear bad news from Google; ESUG's application was rejected this year. I'll ask Google for more information about the rejection next Friday, and post them to both the mentors mailing list and the ESUG mailing list. Thanks, Paolo and Nicolas

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Fwd: Smalltalk Digest February 2014
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 22, 2014

Feb. 22, 2014

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Cincom Systems" <events(a)info.cincom.com> > Subject: Smalltalk Digest February 2014 > Date: 21 Feb 2014 22:26:22 GMT+1 > To: stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr > Reply-To: "Cincom Systems" <events(a)cincom.com> > > If you are having trouble viewing this email message, launch your browser here. > > > February 2014 > > > Grow with Us! > > Product Team Enhancements – Be Part of Our Growing Cincom Smalltalk Team! > Let Us Help You Succeed > > Partnering for Success – Cincom Supporting Customer and Partner Success > Check It Out! > > Helping to Plan the Future – Product Manager Mini-Survey > New Tutorials – "Common Tools" Tutorial Videos to Be Launched > Conference Announcement – European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) Conference Date and Location Announced > Exposure in Germany – Cincom Smalltalk Premier Partner, Georg Heeg, Continues to Promote Cincom and Cincom Smalltalk in Europe! > Valuable Educational Tool – Smalltalk Plays an Important Part in University's Curriculum > New Cincom® ObjectStudio® Release – Cincom ObjectStudio 8.5 Now Available! > New Cincom® VisualWorks® Release – Cincom VisualWorks 7.10 Now Available! > Performance Considerations – Concurrency and Leveraging Multi-Core PCs – The Solution? MatriX > Task Simplification – Are You Looking to Boost Application Performance? > A Shared Cornerstone – The Cincom Smalltalk Foundation > Getting the Word Out – Cincom Smalltalk and Social Media Channels > Focusing on the Customer – New Cincom Smalltalk Customer Portal > Watch It! – Cincom Smalltalk Videos and Our Presence on YouTube > Availability of Information – New Product Information Readily Available on the Cincom Smalltalk Website > Academia – The Cincom Smalltalk Academic Program > Serving the Smalltalk Community – Cincom Smalltalk Community Blogs > Smalltalk News Repositories > > News from the Cincom Smalltalk Team > Upcoming Events > > August 16-17, 2014 – Camp Smalltalk, Cambridge, England > August 18-22, 2014 – European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) Conference, Cambridge, England > Update on Smalltalk Events > Smalltalk Job Opportunities > > Visit the Smalltalk Jobs Blog > Cincom Smalltalk Team Seeks Cincom VisualWorks Senior Software Engineer > > > > 55 Merchant St. • Cincinnati, OH 45246 • phone: 800-2CINCOM • fax: 513-612-2000 > view in browser • legal notice • privacy policy • subscription preferences > Cincom, the Quadrant Logo, Cincom Smalltalk, ObjectStudio and VisualWorks > are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cincom Systems, Inc. > All other trademarks belong to their respective companies. > ©2014 Cincom Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved >

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Pharo on Raspberrypi
by Jean Baptiste Arnaud Feb. 19, 2014

Feb. 19, 2014

Hi, so the VM Raspberry without the bug on Atomic operation (all semaphore are block) worked now. Here is a link: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/view/RaspberryPi/job/RaspberryPi-Cro… Here is a nice picture: Best Regards Jean Baptiste Arnaud Jean-Baptiste.Arnaud(a)inria.fr

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Fwd: [Evol] phd position and postdoc visits - evolving software ecosystems research
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 14, 2014

Feb. 14, 2014

Begin forwarded message: > From: Tom Mens <tom.mens(a)umons.ac.be> > Subject: [Evol] phd position and postdoc visits - evolving software ecosystems research > Date: 14 Feb 2014 16:43:44 GMT+1 > To: ERCIM WG Software Evolution ERCIM WG Software Evolution Mailing List <evol(a)lists.inf.unisi.ch> > > Dear all, > > A PhD position as well as postdoc research visits are available at the Software Engineering Lab (Faculty of Science) of the University of Mons, Belgium. The goal is to collaborate and carry out research on the topic of empirical ecological studies of the evolution of open source software ecosystems (i.e. large collections of collaborating software projects and communities), by drawing inspiration from ecological measures and models used for studying biological ecosystems. This should lead us to better insight in, and support for, the survivability of software ecosystems and their constituent projects and contributors. > > The PhD position is available immediately. Candidates should be eligible for starting a PhD in Sciences (they should have a Master or Engineering degree or equivalent) a, should have practical programming experience, and should have a clear interest in biological and software engineering aspects. > > To apply for the PhD position of for carrying our a research visit, please send a mail (preferably together with a detailed CV and motivation letter) to Tom Mens (tom.mens(a)umons.ac.be) > > For more information, contact me directly, or visit > http://informatique.umons.ac.be/genlog/projects/ecos/ > > Best regards, > > Tom Mens > Software Engineering Lab > Faculty of Sciences > University of Mons > tom.mens(a)umons.ac.be > > > > _______________________________________________ > Evol mailing list > Evol(a)lists.inf.unisi.ch > http://lists.inf.unisi.ch/mailman/listinfo/evol

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SmalltalkHub is back online!
by Nicolas Petton Feb. 12, 2014

Feb. 12, 2014

The server is accessible again! Cheers, Nico -- Nicolas Petton http://nicolas-petton.fr

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Re: [Esug-list] [gsoc-mentors] Re: [Pharo-dev] The truth on GSOC, ESUG and bad attitude
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 12, 2014

Feb. 12, 2014

I can tell you that until now I took that as a little crisis of Janko but now this makes me sick. I do not think that I will stand in the same room than him in the future. Sorry Janko you are insulting people publicly but you mention that you don’t. I will check if I have a lawyer to handle this situation because you cannot have just words against me. I will check with the inria lawyer first. Stef > I do not understand the motivation of Janko, especially since he is apparently alone to think that way. > It is impressive to see how fragile the community is. > Thanks Paolo and thanks the ESUG board for handling this difficult situation! > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > > On Feb 10, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> wrote: > >> I support it, too. >> >> The only path to action I see is to act. And in this situation, Paolo was the only one that offered a pragmatic way out. Thank you, Paolo! :) >> >> So, I suggest this: >> - we take Marcus' suggestion and have the present issue be handled at the next ESUG general assembly. Like this we ensure that the problem is going to be addressed in a more effective environment (namely, more structured, and not via mail). >> - we go forward with Paolo as an admin. Like this we ensure that action happens now. >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I support this, along with a general require that you keep this discussion in private. >> >> Esteban >> >> On 10 Feb 2014, at 12:10, Stephan Eggermont <stephan(a)stack.nl> wrote: >> >>> I no longer have confidence in Janko running as GSoC admin >>> and want Paolo to take over as admin for Esug as mentoring organisation. >>> >>> Stephan Eggermont >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list >>> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >>> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >> >> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "Every thing has its own flow" > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Smalltalk GSoC mentors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smalltalk-gsoc-mentors+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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[SmalltalkHub down] The server hosting SmalltalkHub at Inria is not responding
by Nicolas Petton Feb. 11, 2014

Feb. 11, 2014

Hi guys, The server hosting SmalltalkHub at Inria is not responding. SmalltalkHub is therefore down. I contacted the Inria server admins to learn more about this incident, without success for now. I'll do my best to put it back online as soon as possible! Cheers, Nico -- Nicolas Petton http://nicolas-petton.fr

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[GSoC 2014] Announcing Nicolas Petton as co-admin
by Paolo Bonzini Feb. 11, 2014

Feb. 11, 2014

I'm pleased to announce that Nicolas Petton will be helping me with administration of the GSoC. As you may know, Nicolas is the lead developer of Amber Smalltalk and the Iliad web framework. He has worked with many other Smalltalk dialects in the past, including GNU Smalltalk and Pharo. In the interest of transparency, I will mention that: - I had previously asked Damien Cassou, but he preferred to have someone more neutral than an ESUG board member. It is interesting that I had picked him *exactly* because he was an ESUG board member. :) - Nico will be submitting project ideas for Amber and he might thus serve as a mentor too (I won't). Nevertheless, I'm sure that the selection process will be as transparent as possible. Thanks, Paolo

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Re: [Esug-list] The truth on GSOC, ESUG and bad attitude
by Richard Sargent Feb. 11, 2014

Feb. 11, 2014

Janko, You have already thrown a brick. I don't understand your refusal to throw stones. Who is being accused of doing what? Spell it out for us. Sent from my Samsung S III -------- Original message -------- From: Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si> Date: 2014/02/10 02:57 (GMT-08:00) To: smalltalk-gsoc-mentors(a)googlegroups.com Cc: ESUG Mailing list <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org>,Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org>,The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> Subject: [Esug-list] The truth on GSOC, ESUG and bad attitude Dne 10. 02. 2014 11:08, piše Stéphane Ducasse: > Janko CAN YOU STOP! > > "blatantly unethical behavior” > Really > > Stef Stef, we are waiting to you. Will you tell us your part of the story about your GSoC 2010 act or shall I start by myself? Janko >> Phil, >> This matter is actually very important for Smalltalk community, >> because it exposes nontransparent, meddling behind the scenes, >> and in some cases blatantly unethical behavior of some ESUG board >> members. Which is certainly bad for our community on long term. >> Such matters need to be clarified and some conclusions to be made for a >> community to preserve health and go on. Otherwise you are drowning into >> murky waters more and more. >> >> Best regards >> Janko >> >> Dne 10. 02. 2014 09:12, piše phil(a)highoctane.be >> <mailto:phil@highoctane.be>: >>> Guys, >>> >>> From the outside it just looks like a couple of spoiled kids battling in >>> the kindergarten. >>> >>> All of this is not moving Smalltalk and Pharo any single bit forward. >>> Backwards, there is a fair chance. >>> >>> Now, could you take this discussion elsewhere? Pick up a phone and talk. >>> >>> Who cares if anyone is right? Oh yeah, EUR 4K, what a huge amount to >>> fight over for an European org... (rolleyes). >>> >>> Phil >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Luc Fabresse <luc.fabresse(a)gmail.com >>> <mailto:luc.fabresse@gmail.com> >>> <mailto:luc.fabresse@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Janko, >>> >>> I do not have all numbers at hand now but in 2013 there were 4 >>> extra-GSOC but we paid only 3 because one student gave >>> up (Jean-Baptiste Beuzelin). >>> So yes you are probably right that it remains money if we integrate >>> last year BUT we were willing to spend it. >>> >>> Luc >>> >>> >>> 2014-02-09 Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si >>> <mailto:janko.mivsek@eranova.si> >>> <mailto:janko.mivsek@eranova.si>>: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> First to Luc: from your numbers it is clear that you are not to be >>> blamed on anything, because you were obviously misinformed and >>> misguided. >>> >>> Facts namely are: >>> >>> 1. GSoC mentors decided to pay extra stipendiums 3000 USD [1] >>> while >>> ESUG without approval paid 2000 more, 5000 USD, without any >>> report >>> back to GSoC mentors, >>> >>> 2. GSoC mentors decided to add past GSoC2012 amount to the >>> pool for >>> paying extra projects [2][3]. >>> >>> Calculation (without the Summit expenses) therefore is: >>> >>> Income: GSoC 2012 13x 500 = 6.500 USD >>> GSoC 2013 13x 500 = 6.500 USD >>> ------------------------------ >>> 13.000 USD >>> >>> Expenses: >>> Extra stipendiums: 3x 3.000 = 9.000 USD >>> >>> Difference: + 4.000 USD >>> >>> If ESUG would follow the decisions of GSoC mentors it wouldn't >>> loose any >>> money but gain 4.000 USD. >>> >>> Those that misinformed and misguided you needs therefore to >>> apologize to >>> you Luc, to the GSoC mentors and to me as admin! >>> >>> Janko >>> >>> [1] >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors/Yrlj8dIgGPg >>> [2] >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors/WwnxpkXzAB8 >>> [3] >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors/tR44jdPT5Hw >>> >>> >>> Dne 09. 02. 2014 17:26, piše Luc Fabresse: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> ------------ >>>> FACTS >>>> >>>> As you all know, I am the ESUG treasurer. >>>> So please find the numbers attached for the ESUG support of GSOC >>>> projects in 2013. >>>> >>>> ESUG sponsored 3 "extra-GSOC" meaning extra slots not accepted >>> by Google. >>>> In the file it is: Alejandro Infante, Pablo Estefo and >>> Benjamin Arezki. >>>> >>>> All in all we paid: >>>> - 3695EUR (~5000USD at that time i.e. same cost as a regular >>> GSOC) each >>>> projects >>>> - Serge trip to Mentor summit >>>> >>>> And we received 5552EUR from Google >>>> >>>> so yes we lost ~6582EUR >>>> That is easy 13*500 USD would only cover 1 plain extra-Gsoc and we >>>> sponsorized 3. >>>> >>>> I also think that it is important to send someone to the GSoc >>> mentor >>>> summit because it participates to the fact that Google >>> recognizes ESUG >>>> ang gives slots the next year. >>>> >>>> It is alos important to note dates. >>>> ESUG paid first and then has been refund by Google. >>>> It would not be possible to do it without ESUG. >>>> >>>> ------------ >>>> FROM HERE, MY POINT OF VIEW ON THIS STORY: >>>> >>>> As some of you know, I doing the ESUG treasury stuff on my >>> *own* time >>>> and it takes a lot! >>>> I am doing it because I strongly believe that Smalltalk (all >>> falvors!) >>>> is a really great language that should be more widespread. >>>> >>>> I also completely open to discussions. >>>> The ESUG board can also explain its actions and even money status. >>>> I can do errors too. >>>> So if Janko wants some details on GSOC related money, JUST ASK! >>>> >>>> I cannot admit that: >>>> >>>> - Janko wrote about some money accusation. This is directly >>> directed >>>> against the treasurer so me. >>>> And honestly, just reading again that I am biased and that I >>> hide or >>>> steal money make me think that I should better quit. >>>> >>>> - Janko asked for apologies! what is that? even if I would >>> have done a >>>> mistake (and ESUG did not loose money), YOU STILL MUST THANK >>> ME for >>>> DOING THIS BORING TASK! and then I can correct mistakes if any >>>> >>>> - People wants an answer fast, this conversation started >>> yesterday and I >>>> am spending my week-end with my kids >>>> >>>> >>>> I am really fed up with this kind of attitude. >>>> Stop accuse, better ask, discuss and we will solve the >>> problems together >>>> if any. >>>> But I think it will never happen... >>>> >>>> #Luc >>>> The disgusted Treasurer of ESUG who will finish his week-end >>> in bad mood -- Janko Mivšek Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

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