ESUG Free Smalltalk Books for University and Researchers

Dan Rozenfarb drozenfa at ciudad.com.ar
Sun Mar 30 14:00:06 UTC 2003


Sorry, it was meant to be private

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En 
> nombre de Dan Rozenfarb
> Enviado el: Domingo, 30 de Marzo de 2003 10:51 a.m.
> Para: 'The general-purpose Squeak developers list'
> Asunto: RE: ESUG Free Smalltalk Books for University and Researchers
> 
> 
> Hi Stephane,
> We, the Smalltalk people here at the University of Buenos 
> Aires, are very gratefull to ESUG for giving us the Teacher 
> Package. We received many books and appreciate it.  However, 
> due to an unfortunate circumstance beyound your will, be 
> haven't received the CDs and the lecture.  Now that the 
> problem has probably been fixed, do you think it is possible 
> for ESUG to send them to us?
> 
> Best regards,
> Dan Rozenfarb
> 
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En 
> > nombre de Stephane Ducasse
> > Enviado el: Domingo, 30 de Marzo de 2003 07:46 a.m.
> > Para: squeak dev
> > Asunto: ESUG Free Smalltalk Books for University and Researchers
> > 
> > 
> > Please distribute widely
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------
> > ----
> > ESUG is proud to announce the second international call for its  
> > Sponsoring
> > Program of Smalltalk books.
> > 
> > 		     
> > http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html
> > 
> > Briefly, this program offers free books and teaching material to
> > Universities worldwide.
> > 
> > Who can apply for this program?
> > a- If you are already using Smalltalk as a
> > teaching/research/development language, this program supports 
> > you to follow with your approach.
> > b- If you are not using Smalltalk but you are teaching (or 
> > would like to
> > teach) OOP, this program will provide you with enough 
> material to do  
> > your
> > starting step and support you in the future.
> > 
> > Why should you apply?
> > We are a big community (composed of people in universities, research
> > labs
> > and industries) using Smalltalk as a main development 
> > language. We are actively in contact and we would like that 
> > this community grows, with  
> > all
> > the advantages that this action means for your universities  
> > (international
> > contact, knowlegde sharing, access to open sources, etc.).
> > 
> > What do you get if you apply for it?
> > 
> > Depending on your needs, we offer two possibilities:
> > a- Teacher Excellence Package -  a package containing a relevant
> > selection
> > of Smalltalk books at all levels of expertise + 30 CD's 
> > containing all  
> > the
> > free or non-commercial Smalltalks (Squeak, VisualWorks, Gnu 
> > Smalltalk, Dolphin, Smalltalk/X, Smalltalk/MT) + plus all the 
> > freely available  
> > books
> > + a ready-to-use lecture (400 slides + 100 pages of exercises)
> > 
> > b- Teacher Immersion Package - we offer you to have the
> > possibility to  
> > get
> > an intensive lecture for any number of students for a week. 
> > The Teacher Immersion Package includes the Teacher Starter Package
> > 
> > 
> > For your information, last year (2002) we issued the first
> > call of this program and the following universities were 
> > selected and received  
> > the
> > material at the end of November 2002:
> > 
> >   - Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany)
> >   - Universidad Tecnolo'gica Nacional (Argentina)
> >   - University of Munich (Germany)
> >   - Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
> >   - Politehnica University Timisoara (Roumanie)
> >   - Colegio Schoenthal (Argentina)
> >   - Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium)
> >   - Universite' de Caen (France)
> >   - Universite' de Montpellier-II (France)
> >   - Universite' de Paris 8 (France)
> >   - Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
> >   - Universidad de Vigo (Spain)
> >   - Universite' de Bretagne Occidentale (France)
> >   - Universite' Hassiba Ben Bouali De Chlef (Algerie)
> >   - Universidad Jaume I (Spain)
> >   - Valahia University (Roumanie)
> >   - Universitaet St. Gallen (Switzerland)
> >   - UDK-Berlin (Germany)
> >   - Czech Technical University (Czech)
> >   - Wuhan University (China)
> > 
> > To get complete information about the program and the last
> > year applications, have a look at:
> > 		 http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html
> > 
> > If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > 
> > ESUG Initiative Team
> > Gabriela Arevalo (arevalo at iam.unibe.ch)
> > Stephane Ducasse (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch)
> > 
> > 
> > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it..." Alan Kay.
> > 
> > Open Source Smalltalks: http://www.squeak.org,
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/smalltalk.html
> > Free books for Universities at  
> > http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html
> > Free Online Book at  
> > http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------- 
> > ----
> > 
> > 
> 
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