Hi, this is a simple call for help in pushing Smalltalk.
ESUG is organizing a conference every year. This year the conference will be at Anhalt University in Koethen, Germany September 6-10. See the call below
If you want to help Smalltalk: SPONSOR us! To sponsor you can - JUST attend and enjoy the conference: http://www.esug.org/ - be a first class sponsor such as http://www.exept.de, http://www.cincom.com, http://www.eranova.si, http://www.heeg.de, http://www.bedarra.com, http://www.jfa.com
Now you may wonder what we are doing and why you would give us money! We are doing a lot of actions to promote our favorite language. Much more than certain other group ;). ESUG is doing a lot for Smalltalk!
- Our new web site is entirely made in Smalltalk: It is SmallWiki a new wiki implementation http://kilana.unibe.ch:9090/smallwiki/
- Organizing a great conference around Smalltalk. Ask people that have been there. They will tell you that ESUG is a source of energy for Smalltalk.
- Bringing new blood in the community: Since two years ESUG have student volunteers. These are students that are interested in Smalltalk. Coming to the conference is the best way for them to see the technology from their own point of view (without a teacher telling them). We would like to thank the slovenian companies among which http://www.eranova.si%C2%A0 that sponsor the travel of some rumanian students. So if you want to see young blood in Smalltalk this is the way to do it!
- Sending books and cds to universities worldwide. A list of universities is at: http://www.esug.org/promotionactions/selecteduniversities/
- Creating and distributing the ESUG CD http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/EsugcD.html
- Present tutorials supporting Smalltalk in education forums and open-source conferences
- Helping local groups help themselves and grow. ESUG sponsored the Squeak german association http://www.squeak.de/
- Collecting the free smalltalk books: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html.
We are individuals like you that like Smalltalk. Although we are all volunteers, we need some money to organize the ESUG activities listed. If you like this effort please send us your contribution to help us continue.
Sincerely,
The ESUG Board
Call for contributions for the ESUG 12th International Joint Event -------------------- Call for contributions for the ESUG 12th Internatioanl Joint event 6-10 september 2004 Köthen, Germany http://www.esug.org
Since 12 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) organizes an International Event that aims at being a live forum on cutting edge software technologies that attract during a whole week people from both academia and industry. Every year about half of attendies are engineers using Smalltalk in business while the rest of attendies are students and teachers using Smalltalk for both their research and courses.
As for every year, this year edition of the event wil include the regular technical program with high quality invited speakers. This year, we're honored to have Dan Ingalls as a keynote speaker. Besides, we'll have a reseach track with an excellent program committee, a business day about Smalltalk successfull use in the market place, and a technology awards where prizes will be distributed to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk related software. Of course, we plan to have as usual, various informal events : Camp Smalltak, a physics teacher evening, a serie of introductive tutorials to Smalltalk, ...
THIS YEAR we are looking for YOUR EXPERIENCE Reports using smalltalk so please come to tell us more on your experience and projects
Submissions infos ============
Regular technical program -http://www.esug.org/conferences/twelfthsmalltalkjointevent2004/ regulartechnicalprogram/ -Summary of 1 page max -Submissions due on 15th of june -Notification of acceptance on 15th of july
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Reseach Track -http://www.esug.org/conferences/twelfthsmalltalkjointevent2004/ researchtrack/ -Paper of 15 pages max -Submissions due on 21 of May 2004 -Notification of acceptance on 1st of july 2004 -Camera ready version due on 21st of july 2004
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Smalltalk Business day experience reports -http://www.esug.org/conferences/twelfthsmalltalkjointevent2004/ smalltalkbusinessday/ -Summary of 1 page max -Submissions due on 15th of june -Notifications on 15th of july
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Innovation Technology Awards -http://www.esug.org/conferences/twelfthsmalltalkjointevent2004/ innovationtechnologyawards/ -3 pages max describing the software + URL to download the software -Submissions due on 15th of june -Notifications of elegibility on 15th of july