Hi Stephane,

For some of us it is important how much the registration will cost. Any idea
(even rough) yet?

Ivan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Ducasse [mailto:ducasse at iam.unibe.ch]
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 10:32 AM
> To: squeak dev
> Subject: DEADLINEs FOR TALKs and Academic Papers at ESUG'2003 are
> approaching
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>
> > Date: Sun Apr 6, 2003  4:27:09 PM Europe/Zurich
> > To: esug-list at lists.esug.org
> > Subject: [Esug-list]  DEADLINEs FOR TALKs and Academic Papers  at  
> > ESUG'2003 are approaching
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> >
> > please distribute widely.
> > The deadline for talks presentations submissions at ESUG 2003 is  
> > getting close:
> > http://esug2003.eranova.si/general.htm
> >
> > 
> ======================================================================
> >                             The European Smalltalk User Group
> >                                    invites you to the
> >                        Smalltalk Joint Event
> >
> >                                 11th ESUG Smalltalk Conference &
> >                              ESUG Research Track
> >                Tuesday, August 26, - Friday, August 29, 2003
> >                                   &
> >                             Camp Smalltalk
> >                         Saturday, August 23 - Sunday, 
> August 24, 2001
> >
> >                                     Bled, Slovenia
> >
> >                      Information and Preliminary Call for 
> Contributions
> > 
> ==============================================================
> ========= 
> > =
> >
> >
> > GENERAL INFORMATION
> > ===================
> >
> > For the 11th consecutive year, the European Smalltalk User Group
> > organizes a Smalltalk Conference to bring together Smalltalk users
> > from  both academia and industry in a friendly atmosphere.  
> As always
> > the  attendants will enjoy tutorials, workshops and 
> demonstrations on
> >       various Smalltalk related subjects. New this year is 
> that the  
> > talks
> > are  scheduled primarily in the morning and that the 
> afternoon focuses
> > on  concrete collaborations between participants and workshops.
> >
> > Continuing a strong tradition in organizing Smalltalk events for
> > Smalltalk practitioners, this year promises to be very exiting. ESUG
> > organizes a Smalltalk Joint Event comprised of Camp Smalltalk,
> > Advanced  Seminars and a Research track:
> >           - An official (and free) Camp Smalltalk, starting the  
> > week-end
> > before and continuing the rest of the week.
> >           - The Advanced Seminars, where invited speakers 
> and technical
> > presenters show concrete applications and research using Smalltalk.
> >           - ESUG Research Track: an academic research track with
> > top-of-the-line program committee. A separate call for paper was
> > issued  for this event, which is attached to this mail at 
> the bottom.
> >
> > All these exiting events will take place in the last week of August,
> > between the 23rd and 29th.
> >
> > As always, we cannot make this work without contributions from the
> > actual Smalltalk practitioners.  Therefore we invite people 
> to submit
> >       proposals to present papers (both academic or industrial,  
> > technical
> > or  experience report), or to exhibit.  Together with 
> invited speakers
> > and  Campers this promises to be another exciting Smalltalk event.
> >
> >
> > INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE SPEAKERS
> > =====================================
> >
> > Prospective speakers must clearly explain the format they would like
> > to  use (tutorial, experience report, workshop or demo).  Each
> > proposal  must include a valid e-mail address and an abstract of
> > around 200  words.  All proposals have to be sent to Roel Wuyts
> > (wuyts at iam.unibe.ch) AND Stephane Ducasse (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch), in
> > plain ASCII pasted in the body of the e-mail (NOT attached).
> >
> >
> > Hot topics include, but are not limited to,
> > - web service applications using Smalltalk
> > - experience using eXtreme Programming
> > - distributed applications
> > - new Smalltalk implementations and optimizations
> > - Smalltalk Development Tools
> > - Language improvements or enhancements
> >
> > Exhibitors or sponsors should directly contact the ESUG 
> board for more
> >       information (esug-info at esug.org).
> >
> >
> > PRACTICAL INFORMATION
> > =====================
> >
> > The Conference takes place in Bled, in Slovenia. Bled is a 
> city in the
> >       north west of Slovenia, under mountains. It is near 
> the Austrian  
> > and
> >       the Italian border, with the beautiful Italian city 
> of Venice  
> > only
> > three hours away.
> >
> > More information about the city of Bled can be found in 
> English at the
> >       following URL: http://www.bled.si/eng/informacije/obledu.htm.
> >
> > The conference will be held in hotel Golf
> > (http://www.gp-hoteli-bled.si/ang/golf.htm). This hotel has all
> > necessary facilities (internet and beamers) to support a successful
> > organization. Conference attendees have to book accommodation
> > themselves this year, either at this hotel or at other 
> hotels in Bled.
> >
> >
> > IMPORTANT DATES
> > ===============
> >
> > deadline for proposals: April 11th
> > notification of acceptance: April 28th
> > camera ready copy for slides of accepted speakers: July 7th
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> ==============================================================
> ========= 
> > =
> >                        CALL FOR PAPERS
> >
> >                                    ESUG Research Track
> >                        Monday 25 Aug 2003
> >
> >                         Bled Slovenia
> >                      http://www.esug.org/
> > 
> ==============================================================
> ========= 
> > =
> >
> >
> > The European Smalltalk User Group is proud to announce that the 11th
> > Annual ESUG Conference will include a refereed academic track. A
> > strong  program committee has been selected and we expect 
> the academic
> > track to  include high quality papers. Proceedings will be 
> published.
> >
> >
> >
> > Scope:
> > ======
> > The goal of the academic track is to have a forum for academic
> > publications related to research in Smalltalk and dynamically typed
> > languages. We encourage authors to submit excellent quality 
> papers as
> >       we plan to produce proceedings.
> >
> >
> > A non exhaustive list of topics is
> >          - new languages features (mixins, AOP,...)
> >          - multi-agent systems
> >          - meta and reflective programming
> >          - code analysis (refactoring,...)
> >          - process development (Agile processes, Unit testing)
> >          - virtual machines (optimization, new trends)
> >          - integrated development environments (browsers,  
> > visualization,
> > ...)
> >          - frameworks (web, graphical...)
> >          - software evolution (metrics,...)
> >
> > Program Chair:
> > ==============
> >          Stephane Ducasse (University of Berne)
> >          email: ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
> >
> >          Roel Wuyts (University of Berne)
> >          email: roel.wuyts at iam.unibe.ch
> >
> >
> > Program Committee:
> > ==================
> >          - Prof. Andrew Black (Oregon Health and Science 
> University,  
> > USA)
> >          - Dr. Noury  Bouraqadi (Ecole de Mines de Douai, France)
> >          - Prof. Serge Demeyer (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
> >          - Prof. Theo D'Hondt (Universiteit Vrije Brussels, Belgium)
> >          - Prof. Stephane Ducasse (Universitaet Bern, Switzerland)
> >          - Prof. Ralph Johnson (University of Illinois, USA)
> >          - Eliot Miranda (Cincom, USA)
> >          - Joseph Pelrine (MetaProg, Switzerland)
> >          - Dave Simmons (Quasar, USA)
> >          - Dr. Serge Stinckwich (University of Caen, France)
> >          - Dave Thomas (Bedarra, USA-Canada)
> >          - Dr. Roel Wuyts (Universitaet Bern, Switzerland)
> >
> > Important Dates:
> > ================
> >          - Deadline: 15th of April 2003 (and not 15th of March as
> > originally  mentioned)
> >          - Notification of acceptance: 1st of June 2003
> >          - Final version: 1st of July 2003
> >
> > Important Information:
> > ======================
> >          - Best papers will be published in a special issue of the  
> > journal
> > of Computer Languages
> >          - Preferred format: PDF
> >          - Maximum paper length 15 pages
> >
> >
> > Information related to the ESUG Academic Track inside the ESUG
> > Conference Organization:
> > 
> ==============================================================
> ========= 
> > =
> > We plan to have the Academic track the first day of the Conference:
> > the  25 of August 2003.
> >
> > -- 
> > ------------------------------------------
> > Dr. Noury Bouraqadi
> > Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. G.I.P
> > http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/noury
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Prof. Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE
> > 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
> >
> > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it..." Alan Kay.
> >
> > Open Source Smalltalks: http://www.squeak.org,  
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/smalltalk.html
> > Free books for Universities at  
> > http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html
> > Free Online Book at  
> > http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Esug-list at lists.esug.org
> > http://lists.esug.org/listinfo/esug-list
> >
> >
> Prof. Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE
> 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
> 
> "The best way to predict the future is to invent it..." Alan Kay.
> 
> Open Source Smalltalks: http://www.squeak.org,  
> http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/smalltalk.html
> Free books for Universities at  
> http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html
> Free Online Book at  
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html
> 
>