Dear Smalltalkers,

ESUG (http://www.esug.org) is a non-profit organization which was
founded in 1991. Its goal is promoting object technology within the
context of the Smalltalk programming language. To achieve this goal,
ESUG undertakes many activities, such as:
-organizing conferences and workshops that allow users and vendors and
also industry people and academics to meet,
-providing free teaching materials and books to students and
universities,
-supporting local Smalltalk users groups and helping establish new
ones,
-...

ESUG is looking for local organizers for hosting its event for year
2005. This edition of the event should take place on the beginin of
September or the end of August 2005.

We (the ESUG board) would like to take decision on September 2005 during
the forthcoming conference that will be held at Köthen (Germany). We would
like to meet potential organizers in Germany, so to discuss their 
proposals.
Also, this will be the opportunity for selected organizers to gains over
preceeding local organizers experience.

Please send your proposal to esug-info at esug.org by September 5th 2004.
Your proposal should include three names and email addresses for the
local organization contact people (3 persons at least), and give
information about location, hosting, ...  (see 
http://www.esug.org/conferences/informationstoprovideforhostingesugevent/)

Important notes:

-Usually we get around 100 participants.

-We plan to have (again) a student volunteer program to help local
organizers to take care of the coffee break, material, badges,
projectors.....

- When you will propose to organize ESUG you should consider that we
would like to host CampSmalltalk too. For this purpose we will need
one or two amphitheaters, a room with network access.

- Ideally, we would like to be able to have everybody in a single location

We hope to hear from you soon and that we will have a great place for
ESUG 2005.

The ESUG board

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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 

Squeak: an Open Source Smalltalk
http://www.squeak.org 
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