ESUG

Web with Pharo Conference 6 June 2013 @ Lille

admin — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:38:42 +0000

Inria is organizing a conference around the web and pharo the 6 June 2013 at Euratechnologies, Lille.

https://www.inria.fr/centre/lille/agenda/web-3.0-avec-pharo

Great speakers (J. Brichau from Yesplan, N. Petton from Amber and objectfusion, N Hartl from 2Denker,...) will present their business and products as well as some of the technology they use. Do not miss this key event!

https://www.facebook.com/events/534073843317751/

Seaside Tutorial Upate

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:15:59 +0000

The Seaside tutorial by the Software Architecture Group has been updated. In this version, we added two new chapters covering the topics of testing and Web feeds.

Please have a look at: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/seaside/tutorial

CfP: IWST 2013

admin — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:31:16 +0000

International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2013

September 10, 2013 Annecy, France ESUG 2013 joint event

Important dates

Submission deadline: June 15, 2013
Notification deadline: July 15, 2013
Workshop : September 10, 2013

All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (ACM In-Cooperation to be confirmed).

Goals and scopes

The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. Participants are invited to submit research articles. We will not enforce any length restriction. However we expect papers of two kinds:

Short position papers describing emerging ideas.
Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results.

Topics

We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as:

Aspect-oriented programming,
Design patterns,
Experience reports,
Frameworks,
Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk,
Interaction with other languages,
Meta-programming and Meta-modeling,
Tools

Links home page here

Publication Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available here. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions.

Program chairs Loïc Lagadec and Alain Plantec (LabSticc CACS/CNRS, University of Brest, France)

Gemtalk Systems

admin — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:40:02 +0000

The GemStone/S team is becoming an independent company after 3 years as part of VMware.

For more information, visit the company web site at http://gemtalksystems.com

more infos

Call for ESUG 2013 Presentations

admin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:38:40 +0000

21st International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions

Annecy, France

from 9 to 13 September 2013

http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/

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

You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:

Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described here
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 enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.

Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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 http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers We hope to see you there and have fun together.

STIC: Student Volunteers Wanted!

admin — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:04:24 +0000

The 2013 Smalltalk Industry Conference is looking for Student Volunteers!

The conference will be held on June 9-12, 2013 at the Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park (Phoenix), Arizona.

Interested Students can contact the STIC Management for more information.

More about...

STIC: http://www.stic.st
STIC 2013: http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic13/

GSoC: Call for Students

admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:32:28 +0000

Dear Students,

Now it is your turn! You will have to register in our website first [1], put there some information, show interest for the projects and contact the project mentors. After the registration step you will get all the mentors information in order to contact them. By pressing the button on the project, you will show your interest. This is not something formal yet.

Of course you can propose your own project too. In this case write a proposal in a format other projects have and send it to admins (see the email on the bottom).

Our mentors will vote for the most interesting projects and in the middle of the voting Google will tell us, how many projects will actually be funded. Voting will happen in May, with final results expected at the end of May. At that time you will finally know if you are accepted or not.

Of course, there can be many students interested per project. This means that interest for this project is high, but on the other side a chance that you will be chosen is lower. It is up to you to convince a mentor that you are the best!

Note also that the Ideas page is deprecated. On ideas page just the project ideas were collected. Now, we are preparing the real projects. So, please from now on always refer to this link for the projects:

http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects

So, your initial steps are:

Register on our special Smalltalk GSoC website (with your Google account!):
Edit your profile to get some more contact information for mentors to let you know,
Fulfill your brief Biography page (see Biography tab on profile),
Go to Projects page, choose up to three projects and click there 'I'm interested' button,
Contact and discuss with project mentors about your interest.

Subscribe also to a special mailing list [2] where we will help you with further steps.

Deadline: as soon as possible, because the deadline to register on official GSoC website [3] is 3.May, which is, well, soon! But about that later...

Finally, we will really appreciate if you can help us to distribute this call for students. One of our goals is to increase the Smalltalk community. Those who have access to universities can distribute this among the students. Distribute also our poster [4] in many languages, English one attached.

[1] http://gsoc2013.esug.org
[2] Students mailing list:
   http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-students
[3] Official GSoC website
   http://www.google-melange.com
[4] Poster in PDF and image format, in many languages
   http://gsoc2013.esug.org/poster

Good luck! Janko & Serge

Discounted Registration for STIC 2013

admin — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:17:18 +0000

SAVE GREEN…STAY GREEN!

$100 off the early bird conference registration fee from (US) Tax Day (April 15) to Earth Day (April 22)!

Rub shoulders with the greats of the industry and celebrate 30 years of Smalltalk at the 2013 Smalltalk Industry Conference (STIC 2013) June 9-12 , 2013 in Phoenix, AZ!

Exciting Keynotes, Great Technical Program, Lots of Old and New Friends!

Save $100 by entering the special code GREEN when you register between April 15 and 22. More info at: http://www.stic.st/conferences/*

*Discount may not be combined with others.

GSoC Poster

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:16:39 +0000

Geert Claes did a great job preparing a poster for this year GSoC in many languages and both PDFs for printing and images are available from one place on our website:

http://gsoc2013.esug.org/poster

Now it is your turn to find a way to our potential students by distributing the poster as widely and wildly as possible!

GSoC Application Accepted!

admin — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:17:44 +0000

Our Organization Application for "ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group)" in Google Summer of Code 2013 has been accepted !

Students:

Please start looking on Ideas page for projects interesting to you. Also subscribe to our Students mailing list for further info and notifications.

Mentors

Mentors you are welcome to look at Ideas list and volunteer to be a mentor or second mentor of some.
Please register on the Mentors mailing list for further information and notifications.

Next deadline

Friday 3.May 19 UTC - Student proposal deadline

...more inforation at: http://gsoc2013.esug.org