Dear colleagues and friends, It is with great sadness that we learned earlier this week of the passing of Bernard Pottier. Bernard was a remarkable figure and a passionate advocate of Smalltalk. He contributed to the creation of the Computer Science department at the University of Western Brittany in the 1980s, where he trained a large number of young students in programming and object modeling. In research as well, his involvement in the Smalltalk community was significant; for example, he was behind the first organization of the ESUG summer school in Brest in 1993. A tribute will be paid to him on Thursday, November 7th. Sincerely, Loïc -- Logo ENSTA Bretagne <https://www.ensta-bretagne.fr> Logo fb <https://www.facebook.com/ENSTA.Bretagne/> Logo twitter <https://twitter.com/ENSTABretagne> Logo linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/school/ensta-bretagne/> Logo youtube <https://www.youtube.com/c/chaineENSTABretagne> Logo insta <https://www.instagram.com/ensta_bretagne/> Loïc Lagadec *Professeur*// Full Professor/ *+33 2 98 34 89 08 * ENSTA Bretagne *Grande école d'ingénieurs et centre de recherche* /French State Graduate, Post-Graduate and Research Institute / 2 rue François Verny - 29806 Brest Cedex 9 - France www.ensta-bretagne.fr <https://www.ensta-bretagne.fr>