From my blog at http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/smalltalk-at-fisl-now-and-for...
But the biggest news is that based on the preliminary interest in Seaside because of my talk, the FISL conference organizers offered an entire room for next years conference (the full three days with 12 hours per day), as well as four or five main-track hour talks, if I could help organize the subconference details! This is quite a gift, because it will mean that we can expose the 7000 conference attendees to a variety of Smalltalk programs, without paying for rooms or badging or promotion. The conference asked if I could get some corporate sponsors on board, and I immediately fired off email to James at Cincom and Monty at GemStone, and thank goodness they read email on Saturday, because they offered their support quickly. Of course, we have many details to work out, but everyone agrees that we will move forward!
As I've said on IRC, really very very good news!.
2008/4/19, Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com:
From my blog at
http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/library/post/smalltalk-at-fisl-now-and-for...
But the biggest news is that based on the preliminary interest in Seaside because of my talk, the FISL conference organizers offered an entire room for next years conference (the full three days with 12 hours per day), as well as four or five main-track hour talks, if I could help organize the subconference details! This is quite a gift, because it will mean that we can expose the 7000 conference attendees to a variety of Smalltalk programs, without paying for rooms or badging or promotion. The conference asked if I could get some corporate sponsors on board, and I immediately fired off email to James at Cincom and Monty at GemStone, and thank goodness they read email on Saturday, because they offered their support quickly. Of course, we have many details to work out, but everyone agrees that we will move forward!
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Randal,
this is great news! On the Squeakland list, Kim Rose said (back in February) that SqueakFest 09 will be in Brazil and several people suggested that it would be a good idea to make this event part of FISL. Since FISL will be in June, rather than the traditional April, next year this might be a good idea.
-- Jecel
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