ESUG News

Seaside Tutorial Upate

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

Posted by admin at 17 May 2013, 2:15 pm comment link

CfP: IWST 2013

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)

Posted by admin at 6 May 2013, 1:31 pm comment link

Gemtalk Systems

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

Posted by admin at 4 May 2013, 3:40 pm comment link

Call for ESUG 2013 Presentations

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?

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.

Posted by admin at 30 April 2013, 5:38 pm comment link

STIC: Student Volunteers Wanted!

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.

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Posted by admin at 21 April 2013, 10:04 am comment link
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