The European Smalltalk User Group (www.esug.org) invites you to the Smalltalk Joint Event
10th ESUG Smalltalk Conference & 2nd Smalltalk Doctoral Symposium Tuesday, August 27, - Friday, August 30, 2002 & Camp Smalltalk Saturday, August 24 - Monday, August 26, 2002
Douai, France http://www.esug.org/summerschools/2002_Douai/index.htm (the final program and the registration process will be ready for the end of June)
GENERAL INFORMATION
For the 10th consecutive year, the European Smalltalk User Group is organizing a Smalltalk Conference to bring together Smalltalk users from both academia and industry in a friendly atmosphere. As always, the attendents will enjoy tutorials, workshops and demonstrations on various Smalltalk related subjects. Continuing a strong tradition in organizing Smalltalk events for Smalltalk developers, this year promises to be very exciting.
All these exciting events will take place in the last week of August, at the Ecole des Mines de Douai in Douai, France (1h30 away from Brussels by car and 1h10 away from Paris by train). The Conference takes place at Douai in France. Early information can be found at www.esug.org or at http://www.iutc3.unicaen.fr:8000/esug2002/1.
ESUG organizes a Smalltalk Joint Event comprised of: Camp Smalltalk, Smalltalk Conference, a Free Software Day, a Teachers Forum and Smalltalk Doctoral Symposium! - An official (and free) Camp Smalltalk (notice that it starts on the saturday before so that Campers can be productive and stay during the week). ESUG will sponsor the food. - The Smalltalk Doctoral Symposium, where students doing Master and PhD theses have the opportunity to present and discuss their research work with industrial and academic Smalltalk experts. - Finally the Advanced Seminars: Similar to last year, we will offer two tracks: invited talks which should interest everyone, and the technical presentations, which are more specicalized. Dave Thomas (the OTI founder) and Dave Simmons (SmallScript creator) are the keynotes speakers
This year: - a free Software day will be organized around GnuSmalltalk, PocketSmalltalk, and Squeak (contact Serge.Stinckwich@info.unicaen.fr) . - a Teachers Forum will be organized to share teaching experiences. We are looking for experience reports. We are looking for teachers to report their experiences using Smalltalk (contact ducasse@iam.unibe.ch) - ESUG will support the Squeak Foundation by donating 10% of its benefits.
Exhibitors or sponsors should directly contact Stephane Ducasse (ducasse@iam.unibe.ch) or Roel Wuyts (wuyts@iam.unibe.ch) for more information.
The conference fees has been lower to their minimum: 300 Eur for companies and 150 € for academics. The hosting will be excellent with internet connection in the rooms: accomodation: 50 or 60 € per night (site on progress: http://www.esug.org/summerschools/2002_Douai/registration.htm)
IMPORTANT DATES Early registration: 15 of July (Please register yearly so that we can prepare ESUG)
The organizing commitee
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse@iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes