[Seaside] [ANN] Call for contributors

[stephane ducasse]

We are looking for presentations...and we want to create a cool event  
in Europe around Smalltalk.
Do not wait the last moment to send your presentation.

This is at ESUG that Lukas and Adrian presented the first Seaside talk  
in Europe :)

Stef


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> 16th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions
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> August  25-29, 2008 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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> http://www.esug.org/conferences/2008/
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> For the past 16 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has  
> organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on  
> cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both  
> academia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are both  
> engineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachers  
> using Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes.
>
> As every year, this year's edition of the largest European Smalltalk  
> event will include the regular Smalltalk developers conference with  
> renowned invited speakers, a Smalltalk camp that proves fruitful for  
> interactions and discussions. Besides, this year will be held the  
> 4th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be  
> awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects.
>
> You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:
>
>  * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/
>  * Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See  
> below.
>  * Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of  
> attendance (116 people at Köthen, Germany in 2004)!
>  * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll  
> into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.
>
> The conference features the following events:
>
>  * Camp Smalltalk - There will be a Smalltalk camp the 23-24th of  
> august
>  * Developers Forum
>  * Technology Forum
>
> Developers Forum : International Smalltalk Developers Conference
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> This year we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. The  
> list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following:
>
>  * XP practices
>  * Development tools
>  * Experience reports
>  * Model driven development
>  * Web development
>  * Team management
>  * Meta-Modeling
>  * Security
>  * New libraries & frameworks
>  * Educational material
>  * Embedded systems and robotics
>  * SOA and Web services
>  * Interaction with other programming languages
>
> Submissions due on 1st June 2008
> Notification of acceptance on 15 of June 2008
> More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2008
>
> How to sumbit?
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> Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last  
> minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to esug-info at esug.orgfollowing 
>  the template below. Please use this template since the email will  
> be automatically processed!
>
> Subject: [ESUG 2008 Developers] + your name
>
> First Name:
>
> Last Name:
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> Email where you can always be reached:
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> Title:
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> Abstract:
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> Bio:
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> Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded  
> automatically
>
>
> Technology Forum
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> We are proud to announce the 4th 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 conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based  
> software are welcome to compete.
> More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2008
>
> Student Volunteer Program
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> If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered  
> being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the  
> conference running smoothly; in return, they have free  
> accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the  
> conference.
> More information at
> http://www.esug.org/conferences/2008 http://www.esug.org/conferences/16thinternationalsmalltalkjointconference2008/studentvolunteersprogram/
>
>
> We hope to see you there and have fun together.
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