21st International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions

Annecy, France
from 9 to 13 September 2013
http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013/

This call includes:
Developer Forum
Smalltalk Technology Award
International Workshop
   http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop
Student Volunteer
   http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers
Camp Smalltalk 8 September 2013

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For the past 21 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has
organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on
cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both
academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both
engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers
using Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes.

As every year, this year's edition of the largest European Smalltalk
event will include the regular Smalltalk developers conference with
renowned invited speakers, a Smalltalk camp that proves fruitful for
interactions and discussions. This year will be held the
9th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be
awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects
and an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages
(http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop)

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 (170 people at Amsterdam 2008)!
* Students can get free registration and hosting if they enrol
into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.

Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference
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We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have
30 min for presentations and 45 min for hand-ons tutorial.

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
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   New this year!!!
We want two news types of sessions in addition to default talk 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.

   Open Forum: starting with Smalltalk
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   New this year!!
   The event will be held at IAE Savoie Mont-Blanc - University of Savoie.
   This is an opportunity for students and local professionals to discover Smalltalk.
   A room will be freely accessible and we would like to propose some talks and workshop
   for Smalltalk beginners.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Why Smalltalk ?
- Panorama of Smalltalk solutions
- Getting started with Smalltalk
- Success stories

How to submit?
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Submissions due on 15st June 2013
Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly.
More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013

Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last
minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to
Stephane.Ducasse@inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2013 Developers].

Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed!

Subject: [ESUG 2013 Developers] + your name
First Name:
Last Name:
Email where you can always be reached:
Title:
Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl/OpenForum
Abstract:
Bio:

Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically

International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
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http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop

Smalltalk is considered as a design pearl and as a beacon in the
realm of programming languages and programming environments. We are
proud to invite submissions to the International Workshop on
Smalltalk Technologies which is held as part of the ESUG 2013 joint
event. The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around
advances or experience in Smalltalk. We welcome contributions on all
aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related
topics such as

   - aspect-oriented programming, meta-programming,
   - frameworks, interaction with other languages,
   - implementation,
   - new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, tools,
   - meta-modeling, design patterns, experience reports

Technology Award Competition
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The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive,
respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards
ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based
software are welcome to compete.
More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013/

Student Volunteer Program
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If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered
being a student volunteer? 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.
More information at
   http://www.esug.org/conferences/2013
   http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers

We hope to see you there and have fun together.