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This year again ESUG is organizing a student volunteer program!

You are a student and you want to attend ESUG (the first European Conference on Smalltalk)? ESUG has again a student volunteer program so you can get the conference for free (http://www.esug.org/conferences/twelfthsmalltalkjointevent2004/). Your duties will be low and you will have to help a bit the local organizers. ESUG will not pay the travel but the conference will be free and possibly the hosting will be also free depending on the number of students.

For the students that cannot afford the traveling cost we may setting up a private sponsoring program, some companies are ready to sponsor some students. But nothing is sure yet.

But pay attention the places are limited and do not wait the last minute to register. Student volunteers should submit a request before the 1st of July.

To register to the student volunteer program please send an email to nano@essi.fr ***and*** ducasse@iam.unibe.ch. Please explain clearly your situation and your motivation (fill the template below)

Stef and Olivier

Email template (please copy to email, fill it and send to both emails above): Name: Email where you can always be reached: Level in Curriculum: Motivation: Explanation why you need the help of ESUG: Special information:

Appologizes for multiple receptions. ---------------- 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