To continue with our tradition, FAST is organizing Smalltalks, the free conference on Smalltalk based technologies, research and industry applications.
This year the conference will be held on November 15, 16 and 17 at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, in La Plata, Argentina.
We encourage you to start thinking about:
- Talks you want to present
- Workshops you want to organize
- Assistance you might be able to provide
Also, if your company/institution is interested in participating as a Sponsor, this year there will be plenty of opportunities like:
- Helping with the expenses of distinguished speakers and students wanting to travel to the conference
- Hosting special events
- Adding your brand to conference materials (banners, souvenirs, etc.)
We will be releasing more details on this shortly, but there's no need for you to wait, contact us about sponsoring options now!
Specific dates for submissions will be published soon. We will post the updated information on our website and social media accounts, but we'll also make sure to let you know by mail.
Follow us at @fast_arg to keep up to date with news and announcements.
The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, 26th June.
We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House at 7pm.
If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/240660858/ .
See you there!
Invitation to Participate: VA Smalltalk v9.0 64-bit Beta Program!
You're invited to try out the next generation 64-bit virtual machine for VA Smalltalk by joining the v9.0 Beta program.
Mpre infos http://mailchi.mp/instantiations/vast-v90-beta-invitation
Deadline of IWST has been postponed to June 21th AoE. However, we ask you to submit at least an abstract for June 16th. Only papers submitted before this date could be modified until June 21th. See here for more infos
International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies - CALL FOR PAPERS
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. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints. We expect papers of three kinds:
- Short position papers describing emerging ideas
- Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results.
- Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application.
We will not enforce any length restriction.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: June 16th, 2017
- Notification deadline: July 21th, 2017
- Workshop : between September 4th and 8th, 2017
- All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (To be confirmed)
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
Best Paper Award
To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST. We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be illegible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference.
Publication
Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions.
Submission
All submissions must be sent via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2017
Program chairs
- Anne Etien (Université de Lille 1, France)
- Jannik Laval (Université Lyon 2 Lumière, France)