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CFP IWST'2012

The International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, is a European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) Conference joint event, that focuses on research activities - namely academic creative work undertaken on smalltalk use, and more generally on object technologies.

IWST was launched in 2009, in Brest, during the 17th ESUG Conference. The second edition took place in Barcelona, and the third edition was held in 2011 at the heart of historic Edinburgh. Next edition will be in Gent, Begium this summer (28th of august).

ESUG gathers groups of professionals and hobbyists who share an interest in the Smalltalk programming languages and related technologies. The goal of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. IWST contributes to triggering discussions and exchanges of ideas.

As always, we make a point to have a very constructive paper review process that aims to provide in-depth comments and suggestions to all of them (no one-liners!) This makes it ideal to disseminate new research directions, and is a good venue for early stage PhD students to receive feedback on their work. In addition, we intent to invite best papers to a journal special issue as we did last year.

Looking forward to your submissions, and to meeting you in Gent!

Best regards,

Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec Co-chairs of IWST

International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2012

August 28th, 2012 Gent, Belgium.

ESUG 2012 Smalltalk joint event

Important dates

  • Submission deadline: June 15, 2012
  • Notification deadline: July 15, 2012
  • All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL, and the authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal special issue (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

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.

Program chairs

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

Program committee

  • Gabriela Arevalo Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina
  • Alexandre Bergel University of Chile
  • Andrew P. Black Portland State University, US
  • Marcus Denker Rmod, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
  • Luc Fabresse Ecole des Mines de Douai, France,
  • Tudor Girba CompuGroup Medical Schweiz, Switzerland
  • Andy Kellens Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  • Mickaël Kerboeuf LabSticc, University of Brest, France
  • Jannik Laval LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France
  • Mariano Martinez Peck Ecole des Mines de Douai, France,
  • Lukas Renggli Google, Switzerland
  • Jorge Ressia Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Bastian Steinert HPI, Software Architecture Group, Germany
  • Hernan Wilkinson 10Pines, IT consultancy, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Roel Wuyts IMEC Leuven, Belgium
Posted by admin at 21 May 2012, 5:07 pm comment link

Registration ESUG 2012 Open!

We are pleased to announce that registration for the 20th ESUG Conference in Ghent, Belgium is now open!

To register, please proceed to the website or go directly to http://registration.esug.org

Important: do not forget to book your accomodation directly at one of the hotels in Ghent before June30th! More here.

August in Ghent is tourist season and there are a number of other conferences running at the same time at ESUG. So please book your hotel early, preferably before June 30th!

We have ensured availability of a number of rooms at various hotels in Ghent until June 30th. After that date, the option expires and you will need to search for other places to stay. Make sure to book your hotel as soon as possible and mention the reservation code "ESUG" (this is important to get the rates and/or available rooms!)

Posted by admin at 16 May 2012, 1:22 pm comment link

GSoC: 13 Projects Selected

13 projects have been selector for Google Summer of Code:

  • Concrete Type Inference
  • ARM jitter for Squeak VM
  • Interactive & social online Smalltalk tutorial
  • Nautilus
  • Package management with Fuel
  • Bootstrapping the core
  • TestSurgeon
  • SciSmalltalk
  • HMI (Human-Machine Interface) with Amber
  • Rizel - Multidimensional Profiler
  • Export Excel files
  • Finish Physical Etoys port to Sugar
  • Esse, a framework for visualizing, storing and exploring ideas

More information at http://gsoc2012.esug.org

Posted by admin at 24 April 2012, 11:11 am comment link

Cuis 4.0 Released

Cuis 4.0 is available at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html. This is a very important release. It's been over 10 months since Cuis 3.3, but all this time means that there are a lot of big news now.

The biggest one is the public release of the Styled Text Editor, by Bernhard Pieber. Bernhard will do the announcement of this project himself, all I want to say is that Styled Text Editor is the driving force behind most of the new stuff in this release. I also want to add that I'm delighted to be able to work with Bernhard on his project, and that I'm more than happy with the wonderful effect this is having on Cuis itself.

Check http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html .

So, the main new features of this release of Cuis are the required support for External Packages. This is a very lightweight implementation of Packages, based on PackageInfo, but not on Monticello. Versioning is done with GitHub. Take a look at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CodeManagementInCuis4.html and http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisAndGitHub.html .

Posted by admin at 22 April 2012, 11:52 am comment link

Pharo 1.4 Released

We are proud to announce the release 1.4 of Pharo!

You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. In particular, you may be interested in:

About this release

All in all, there were over 860 issues treated in the issue tracker.

Read it again, yes 860 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list of improvements! Now you got a feeling for the effort. And this not our own work but the work of our community! It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply thank them.

We want to thank in particular Inria for its constant support, in particular for the salary of Igor Stasenko and for help in the infrastructure put in place.

We have accomplished this huge task for a better system because we were together. Do not forget that we are working on a consortium to support our system. Do not forget that our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our creativity and programming skills.

Read the Pharo vision document and join!

Thanks a lot for your participation, energy and fun.

The Pharo Team

Posted by admin at 19 April 2012, 11:32 am comment link
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