Re: [vwnc] [ANN] ESUG 2008 Call for Contribution

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> 16th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions
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> August  25-29, 2008 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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> http://www.esug.org/conferences/2008/
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> For the past 16 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.
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> 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.
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> You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:
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>   * 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.
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> The conference features the following events:
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>   * Camp Smalltalk - There will be a Smalltalk camp the 23-24th of  
> august
>   * Developers Forum
>   * Technology Forum
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> 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:
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>   * 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
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> Submissions due on 1st June 2008
> Notification of acceptance on 15 of June 2008
> More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2008
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> How to sumbit?
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> 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]
>  following the template below. Please use this template since the  
> email will be automatically processed!
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> Subject: [ESUG 2008 Developers] + your name
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> First Name:
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> Last Name:
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> Email where you can always be reached:
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> Title:
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> Abstract:
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> Bio:
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> Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded  
> automatically
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> 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/2008
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> 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/2008 http://www.esug.org/conferences/16thinternationalsmalltalkjointconference2008/studentvolunteersprogram/
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> We hope to see you there and have fun together.
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