[Squeak-cn] Smalltalk promotion in China

[Serge Stinckwich]

Hi all,
i'm a french Smalltalker living in Ha Noi (Vietnam) at that moment and
i'm also a member of ESUG board. ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group)
is non-profitable association. Our main aim is to promote the use of
the Smalltalk programming language and also to support local Smalltalk
User Group everywhere. We organize a conference with more than 130
people in Europe. Look at our web site for more details:
http://www.esug.org/

I would like to help the promotion of Smalltalk in Asia. I started to
put some numbers about the existing Smalltalk (or Squeak) Users Groups
and mailing-list here:
http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/wikka.php?wakka=SmalltalkInAsia

I'm aware of two chinese Squeak mailing-lists, but the traffic of
these two mailing-lists are quite slow ... I know that some people in
China are interested by using Smalltalk for doing business and not
only using Squeak for doing fun stuff. Nothing wrong about doing crazy
or fun stuff, but in order to have a more bigger community, we need to
put together all aspects of Smalltalk.

Maybe one idea is to close existing mailing-lists and to launch a new
mailing-list called Smalltalk-cn for all the Smalltalk flavors
(Squeak, Pharo, Dolphin Smalltalk, Gnu Smalltalk, VisualWorks, VSE,
...). What do you think about this idea ? Maybe you have better one to
promote Smalltalk in China ?

ESUG can also give some funds if some of you want to setup a
non-profitable association for a Chinese Smalltalk User Group. Please
contact me if you want to have more details. If you write an article
in a magazine about Smalltalk, you could ask us also some support :
http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/Article

We have also more promotions actions here:
http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion

I hope to be able to come in China (Beijing and/or Shanghai) in the
future in order to meet some of you :-)

Regards,
-- 
Serge Stinckwich
UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
http://doesnotunderstand.org/