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 :
1. 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 2. a runnable demo (available for download or on a CD).
Descriptions and demo location should be sent to bouraqadi@ensm-douai.fr mailto: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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