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>
> Cary, North Carolina, Feb. 9, 2005- Smalltalk Solutions is the premier  
> forum
> for bringing together Smalltalk users, developers, and enthusiasts.  
> This
> year's conference will take place June 27-29 in fun-filled Orlando at  
> the
> Wyndham Orlando Resort.
>
> The Smalltalk Solutions 2005 Conference Board is pleased to announce  
> one of
> this year's keynote speakers:
>
> Niall Ross - The Value of Smalltalk
>
> Abstract: "Some languages are better than others", is often said by
> experienced software engineers. It is as often disbelieved by IT  
> managers
> who suspect that those technical differences their team gurus talk  
> about
> don't really impact the business. Managers are not programmers.  
> Managers
> care about rapid delivery, scalability and the ability to refocus their
> systems on new opportunities, not about dynamic typing, late binding, a
> fully-exposed meta-model, few reserved words and classes as first-class
> objects. Why should language features matter to them?
>
> Niall uses detailed examples from real commercial systems to  
> illustrate how
> certain features of Smalltalk feed directly into business values. His  
> talk
> is an attempt to bridge a chasm of understanding and (more  
> importantly) to
> give others the means to do so in their own workplaces. Language  
> choice is a
> major driver of project success or failure, yet is much neglected and  
> often
> influenced by irrational considerations. By showing ways in which  
> particular
> features of Smalltalk impact particular business needs, Niall hopes to  
> help
> people find the words that can bridge the gap.
>
> Bio: Niall ended his undergraduate career with two intellectual  
> interests:
> computing and the theory of relativity. A quick check of how much  
> commercial
> work was available to relativity and gravitation theorists decided him  
> to do
> academic research in that field and then seek a commercial job in  
> computing,
> rather than the other way round. Niall started working commercially in  
> IT in
> 1985. He was at first assigned to designing and implementing software
> engineering process improvements and only three years later did he  
> begin
> significant writing and delivering of commercial software. This  
> experience
> taught him that intelligent people can nevertheless form foolish ideas  
> about
> software engineering if they have not worked at the coding coalface of  
> real
> large commercial projects.
>
> Learning from this, Niall spent the nineties working on software to  
> manage
> complex, rapidly-changing telecoms networks. A side effect of this  
> work was
> that it taught him much about how scale and rate of change affects  
> software.
> Early in the nineties he discovered Smalltalk. The more he used it,  
> the more
> he came to recognize its its power in this area. This perception was
> strengthened when he spent a year delivering a telecoms management  
> system in
> Java.
>
> At the end of the decade, Niall formed his own software company to  
> offer
> consultancy in meta-data system design, in Smalltalk and in agile  
> methods.
> He has since worked on a variety of meta-data-driven systems, mostly  
> in the
> financial domain. He also leads an open-source project
> (http://customrefactor.sourceforge.net).
>
> Niall has made many presentations at IT conferences over the past two
> decades. Presentations relevant to his Smalltalk Solutions 2005 talk
> include:
>
> *  Solving the XP Legacy Problem with (Extreme) Meta-Programming,  
> Niall Ross
> and Andrew McQuiggin, Smalltalk Solutions, 22nd-24th April 2002,  
> Cincinnati
>
> *  XP-rience: eXtreme Programming Experience, Niall Ross, 10th European
> Smalltalk Summer School, Essen, 25th August - 1st September 2001
>
> *  The Business Case for Adequate Reflection, Niall Ross, 8th European
> Smalltalk Summer School, Ghent, 30th August - 3rd September 1999
>
>
> --  
> Jason Jones
> Knowledge Systems Corporation
> Smalltalk Industry Council
> 919.789.8549 x.21
> www.ksc.com
> www.stic.org
> www.smalltalksolutions.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "stéphane ducasse" <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>
> To: "Jason Jones" <jsj at ksc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [ANN] International Smalltalk Conference Call for  
> Submissions.
>
>
> thanks
>
> soon I hope to send you a new announce for my new book :)
>
> On 9 févr. 05, at 15:00, Jason Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephane,
>>
>> Hope you are well.  The ESUG info has been added to Why Smalltalk.
>>
>> Talk to you soon.
>>
>> Jason
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "stéphane ducasse" <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>
>> To: <jsj at ksc.com>
>> Cc: "Alan Knight" <knight at acm.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:32 AM
>> Subject: [ANN] International Smalltalk Conference Call for  
>> Submissions.
>>
>>
>>> Pay attention this call contains several related but different
>>> announce
>>> please distribute it widely
>>>
>>> ********************************************************************* 
>>> *
>>> **
>>>                    Call for contributions for the
>>>
>>>                     13th International Smalltalk Conference
>>>                    Saturday 13 august to saturday 20 august
>>>                     Brussels
>>>                     http://www.esug.org
>>>
>>> Since 13 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) organizes  
>>> the
>>> International Smalltalk conference 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.  
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> THIS  YEAR we are looking for YOUR EXPERIENCE Reports using smalltalk
>>> so please come to tell us more on your experience and projects
>>>
>>> Here is a non exhaustive list of topics we are interested in:
>>> - XP pratices
>>> - Development tools
>>> - Experience reports
>>> - Model driven development
>>> - Web development
>>> - Team management
>>> - Meta-Modeling
>>> - Security
>>> - New libraries
>>> - new UI framework
>>> - educational material
>>> - Embedded systems
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> ESUG technical program
>>> -http://www.esug.org/conferences/
>>> thirteenthinternationalconference2005/
>>> developersconference/
>>> -Submissions due on 1st of May 2005
>>> -Notification of acceptance on 15 of May 2005
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> ESUG Research Conference
>>> -http://www.esug.org/conferences/
>>> thirteenthinternationalconference2005/
>>> researchconference/
>>> - Paper of 25 pages max
>>> The best papers will be published in a special issue of Elsevier
>>> Computer Languages and Systems
>>> - Submissions Deadline: 21st of May 2005,
>>> - Notification of acceptance: 21st of June 2005,
>>> - Final version: 31st of July 2005.
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> ESUG Education Conference
>>> -
>>> http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
>>> thirteenthinternationalconference2005/
>>> educationconference/
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> Smalltalk Business Conference
>>> -http://www.esug.org/conferences/
>>> thirteenthinternationalconference2005/
>>> businessconference/
>>> -Submissions due on 1st of May 2005
>>> -Notifications on 21st of May 2005
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> Innovation Technology Awards
>>> -http://www.esug.org/conferences/
>>> thirteenthinternationalconference2005/
>>> innovationtechnologyawards/
>>> -3 pages max describing the software + URL to download the software
>>> -Submissions due on 30th of june
>>> -Notifications of elegibility on 15th of july
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> 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. 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.
>>>
>>> http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
>>> thirteenthinternationalconference2005/
>>> studentvolunteeratesug/
>>>
>>> END OF  THE CALL
>>>
>>
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