Fwd: [Pharo-project] ESUG call for contribution + student volunteer programs

> From: Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]>
> Date: 5 May 2010 14:56:30 GMT+02:00
> To: Pharo Development <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Pharo-project] ESUG call for contribution + student  
> volunteer programs
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>
> please distribute widely
>
> 18th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions
>
> Barcelona, Spain
> September 13 - 17, 2010; Camp Smalltalk September 11-12
> http://www.esug.org/conferences/2010/
>
> This call includes:
> Developer program
> Free ESUG tickets
> Business day 16th of September (sponsored by Cincom Smalltalk)
> International Workshop http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/International+Workshop+on+Smalltalk+Technologies
> Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/Student+Volunteers+program
> Camp Smalltalk  11-12 September 2010
>
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>
> For the past 18 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
> - 6th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will  
> be
> awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects
> -  an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languages
> http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/International+Workshop+on+Smalltalk+Technologies
>
> * New this year:
> - There will be a business day: thursday 16th of September 2010.
> The focus will be on "Agile Development Processes and Smalltalk"
>
> - ESUG will offer 10 free entrance tickets.
> To get a free ticket you should send a mail to the esug board ([hidden email]
> )
> Subject: [ESUG 2010 Free entrance] + your name
> And you should write a small motivation.
>
>
> 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 (156 participants at Brest and 170 people at Amsterdam)!
>
> * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll
> into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.
>
> Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This year we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk.
> In addition, we are looking for tutorials. 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 1 July  2010
> Notification of acceptance on 15 of July 2010
> More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2010
>
> How to submit?
> ------------------
> Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last
> minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to
> [hidden email] AND [hidden email]
> following the template below. Please use this template since the
> emails will be automatically processed!
>
> Subject: [ESUG 2010 Developers] + 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
>
>
> Innovation Technology Award
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> We are proud to announce the 6th 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. This year we will request 3-5min  
> videos.
> More information at http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/Innovation+Technology+Awards
>
>
> 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/2010
> http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/Student+Volunteers+program
>
> We hope to see you there and have fun together.
>
>
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