The Fundaci��n Argentina de Smalltalk
(FAST,
http://www.fast.org.ar) invites you to
the 10th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies
(Smalltalks), to be held from November 9th through November
11th at the Universidad Tecnol��gica Nacional, Facultad
Regional Tucum��n, located in the city of Tucum��n, Argentina.
Everyone, including teachers, students, researchers,
developers and entrepreneurs, are welcome as speakers or
attendees.
This year, we are extremely happy to announce Ralph Johnson
and Gilad Bracha in our conference.
Ralph Johnson is part of the Gang of Four that gave us
the language to talk about Design Patterns in software.�� He
taught Smalltalk at the University of Illinois with
widespread influence on the community.�� His students include
Don Roberts and John Brant, authors of the Refactoring
Browser.
Gilad Bracha's work as a language designer and
implementer spans Strongtalk and the Animorphic VM, the Java
HotSpot VM, and more recently Dart at Google as well as
NewSpeak.
1.
Registration: Registration is free and now
open at
http://fast.org.ar/registration.
Please make sure to register early to receive the
conference's shirt, as well as to help us plan the
conference's social events. We are accepting donations from
participants to help fund the conference's costs. Please see
the Donate section at FAST's website,
http://fast.org.ar/donations.
Contributions are greatly appreciated, and can be received
both in pesos for local attendees, as well as via Paypal for
those coming from abroad. Please note that donors, including
those that have already sent us their contribution (thank
you!), will receive a set of thank you gifts as well as the
conference's shirt. For those of you that need a receipt, we
can provide those on site.
2.
Call for Participation.
Talk proposal submission for the Industry Track is now open
at our website:
http://fast.org.ar/talk-submission
If you need special arrangements (e.g. because you would like
to hold a workshop session), please indicate so in the
abstract. The Industry Track's submission deadline is October
20th, 2016.
3. Related events: We will update related event
informati=
on as we get closer to the conference, so please check for
updates.
For any additional questions please write an email to
info@fast.org.ar
See you in Tucum��n!