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/regist...
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/
------------------------------------------ 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
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