ESUG 2997 Call for Contributors

Please note: this call contains several related but different  
announcements. Please distribute it widely.

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                    Call for contributions for the

                     14th International Smalltalk Conference
                         Monday 4th - Friday 8 September 2006
                         Prague, Czech Republic
                         http://www.esug.org

For the past 14 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has  
organized the
International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on cutting edge  
software technologies that attract people from
  both academia and industry for a whole week. Every year, around  
half of attendees are engineers using Smalltalk in
business while the rest of attendees are students and teachers using  
Smalltalk for both their research and courses.

As every year, this year's edition of the event will include the  
regular technical program with high quality invited speakers.
In addition, we'll have a research track with an excellent program  
committee, a business day about successful use of Smalltalk
in the market place, and a technology award event 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 and tell others about your
experience and projects

Here is a non exhaustive list of topics we are interested in:
- XP practices
- Development tools
- Experience reports
- Model driven development
- Web development
- Team management
- Meta-Modeling
- Security
- New libraries
- New UI frameworks
- Educational material
- Embedded systems

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ESUG Developers Conference
-http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/developersconference/
-Submissions due on 30th of May 2006
-Notification of acceptance on 15 of June 2006

How to apply?
Pay attention the places are limited and do not wait the last minute  
to apply. Prospective presenters should
submit a request to [hidden email] following the template below.  
Pay attention to follow the template
since the email will be automatically treated!

Subject: [ESUG 2006 Presentations] + your name
First Name:
Last Name:
Email where you can always be reached:
Title:
Abstract:
Bio:
Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded  
automatically

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ESUG Research Conference
-http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/researchconference/
- Paper of 25 pages max
- Submissions Deadline: Sunday 28th May, 0hrs CET
- Notification of acceptance: 15 of July 2006
- Final version: 1st of August

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Innovation Technology Awards
-http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/innovationtechnologyawards/
- 3 pages max describing the software + URL to download the software
- Submissions due on 30th of june 2006
- Notifications of elegibility on 15th of july 2006

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Are you a student, and do you want to attend ESUG (the premier  
European Conference on Smalltalk)? This year, ESUG again has a  
student volunteer program you can apply for. Your duties will be few,  
and you will have to help the local organizers. ESUG does not pay  
travel costs, but the conference will be free. Depending on the  
number of students the hosting will possibly also be free.

http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/
esug2006studentvolunteersprogram/

Prof. 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

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
Online Free Books at http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/ 
FreeBooks.html

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2007/4/27, stephane ducasse <[hidden email]>:
> For the past 14 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has
> organized the International Smalltalk Conference,

For the last 1004 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has
organized the International Smalltalk Conference,

I love that future :-)

--
Damien Cassou

Of course this is the wrong call :)

Stef

On 27 avr. 07, at 22:05, stephane ducasse wrote:

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15th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions

August 25 - 31, 2007 - Lugano, Switzerland

http://www.esug.org/conferences/2007
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For the past 14 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.  
Last, but not least the event includes as usual a research conference  
which was renamed this year into "International Conference on Dynamic  
Languages". This reflects the widening of the scope of this  
conference to enable cross-fertilization with research conducted  
using other dynamic languages.

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
     * Developers Forum
     * Research 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 30th of May 2007

Notification of acceptance on 15 of June 2007

More information at

http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
15thinternationalsmalltalkjointconference2007/
internationalsmalltalkdevelopersconference/

Research Forum : International Conference on Dynamic Languages
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Smalltalk is one of the oldest object-oriented languages, but its  
conception and programming environment can still be considered as a  
design pearl and as a beacon in the realm of programming languages  
and programming environments. The bulk of its modern contenders are  
still lacking many of the features that Smalltalkers find both  
mundane and essential. Nevertheless, as software engineering  
practices and new application fields evolve, Smalltalk should keep  
up. This concerns the language, its implementation technology, its  
programming tools as well as the software development culture it  
supports. The research forum invites scientific articles that report  
on original research conducted in and/or for Smalltalk. The list of  
topics includes, but is not limited to the following:

     * Aspects, Aspect languages and Applications
     * Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous & Pervasive Computing
     * Embedded Systems
     * Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines
     * Formalizations
     * Language Engineering, Extensions
     * Model Driven Engineering
     * Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures, Components
     * Development Environments
     * Program Analysis
     * Reflection and Metaprogramming
     * Testing
     * Agile Techniques
     * Web Services & Internet Applications

More information at

http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
15thinternationalsmalltalkjointconference2007/
internationalconferenceondynamiclanguages/

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/ 
15thinternationalsmalltalkjointconference2007/
innovationtechnologyawards/

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/ 
15thinternationalsmalltalkjointconference2007/studentvolunteersprogram/

Noury on behalf of the ESUG board
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Dr. Noury Bouraqadi - Enseignant/Chercheur
ARMINES - Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. I.A.
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/noury

European Smalltalk Users Group Board
http://www.esug.org
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