Dear Smalltalkers,

This year, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) international Smalltalk
joint event will be held in Brussels, Belgium next august. This event is among
top opportunities to meet experienced Smalltalkers from both industry and
academia. Don't miss it. Register now at:
http://www.esug.org/conferences/thirteenthinternationalconference2005/registration/

The event includes high quality invited speakers and different conferences
addressing various Smalltalk related issues (education, development, marketing,
research, ...).  Talks and demos cover multiple Smalltalk dialects
(VisualWorks, VisualAge ST, Squeak, ...).

-The developers conference aims at exposing cutting edge software technologies.
Web applications, peer-to-peer, XP, VM, hardware, are among the topics that
will be addressed by this year speakers.

-To get a glimpse about the future of Smalltalk, the research conference is the
place to go. It gathers research related not only to Smalltalk, but also to
other dynamical languages for sake of fertilization.

-Management and marketing are discussed during the business conference.
Business people testimony about their experience on Smalltalk uses, success
stories and market trends.

-One of the main goals of Smalltalk pioneers was using Smalltalk for teaching
science and math to kids. This tradition is carried on by the education
conference where speakers present experiments and new tools (e.g. EToys version
2) related to Smalltalk use in the classroom.

-Last, but not least, the program of this year ESUG event encourages informal
discussions and demos. Before the conferences, you can meet people and work on
some projects during a three days Camp Smalltalk. And all the week long, time
slots will be dedicated to informal discussions ("talkusions") during
afternoons. Besides, social events during three evenings are also opportunities
to interact with people, demo and code while tasting some belgian beer or fine
chocolate.

More details about the conference (preliminary program, loction...) are
available at:
http://www.esug.org/conferences/thirteenthinternationalconference2005/

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Dr. Noury Bouraqadi - Enseignant/Chercheur
Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. G.I.P
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/noury

European Smalltalk Users Group
http://www.esug.org

Squeak: an Open Source Smalltalk 
http://www.squeak.org
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