<div dir="ltr"><div>If some of you are interested. It's always nice to meet other smalltalkers.</div><div><br></div><div>Among others, there will be talks about:</div><div>- the Spur GC for Cog</div><div>- Sista, the adaptive optimizer/speculative inliner for Cog</div>
<div>- Gemstone/VisualWork/VisualAge/Pharo roadmaps</div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">22st International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Cambridge, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">from 18 to 22 September 2014</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> This call includes:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Developer Forum</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Smalltalk Technology Award</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> International Workshop</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2014/IWST14" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2014/IWST14</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Student Volunteer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/StudentVolunteers</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Camp Smalltalk 8 September 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> ----------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> For the past 22 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> using Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> As every year, this year's edition of the largest European Smalltalk</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> event will include the regular Smalltalk developers conference with</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> renowned invited speakers, a Smalltalk camp that proves fruitful for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> interactions and discussions. This year will be held the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 10th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> and an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (</span><a href="http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/InternationalWorkshop" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/InternationalWorkshop</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> attendance (170 people at Amsterdam 2008)!</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hand-ons tutorial.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> is not limited to the following:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Model driven development, Web development, Team management</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries & frameworks</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">New from last year!!!</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We want two news types of sessions in addition to default talk and </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">show us your projects sessions.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> How to submit?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> More information at </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/conferences/2014" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/conferences/2014</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Read the page: </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Technology Award Competition</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> ----------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> software are welcome to compete.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> More information at </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/conferences/2014/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/conferences/2014/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Student Volunteer Program</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> ----------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> conference running smoothly; in return, they have free</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> conference.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> More information at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/StudentVolunteers" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/StudentVolunteers</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> We hope to see you there and have fun together.</span></div>