Bonjour,
ESUG (European Smalltalk Users Group) organise la première édition de
son concours d'innovation technologique. Vous en trouverez l'annonce
ci-dessous.
Avec mes excuses pour les réceptions multiples,
Noury Bouraqadi
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ESUG Innovation Technology Awards
The European Smalltalk Users Group (ESUG) is proud to announce its
first Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most
innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and
200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the next ESUG conference (6-10
september 2004, Köthen, Germany). Developpers of any Smalltalk-based
software are welcome to compete.
Eligibility
- Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...)
- The presented piece of code/software should be written in
Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM)
- All Smalltalk dialects are accepted
- The applicant should own the copyright/copyleft of presented code
or at least be the official representative of the copyright/copyleft
owner
- The presented software should be recent. It should have been
finished after the 1st january 2002.
- The software should be free for non commercial use.
How to apply?
Applicants should provide :
- a short paper (in PDF format) up to 3 A4 pages in 12pt font with
:
- keywords for the entry, and
- Smalltalk platforms it runs on, and
- whether it is a free- or shareware, or a professional piece
of software,
- names and affiliation of developpers, and
- description of their software, and
- one or more screenshots of their software, if possible, and
- a runnable demo (available for download or on a CD).
Descriptions and demo location should be sent to bouraqadi@ensm-douai.fr
Evaluation
Winners will be selected by votes of the conference attendees.
Pieces of software will be downloadable from the ESUG website 2 weeks
before the conference to give people the chance to evaluate it.
Every applicant can give a 10min talk/demo during the conference.
Then, conference attendees do vote.
A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 prefered pieces of
software. Voters should provide such a list based on their preception of
software's:
- Innovation and Creativity
- Stability and Performance
- Successfull use
Winners are softwares which ranks top the most often.
Dates
- Applications (see requirements) should be sent by july 1st
- Notification of eligibility will be sent by july 31st
- Demos, votes and the Awards Ceremony will take place during the
ESUG Conference, 6-10 september 2004, Köthen, Germany.
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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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