[squeak-dev] [ANN] ESUG 2008 Call for Contribution

Hi all

Please do not wait the last minutes to send me your potential  
presentations.
I want to make ESUG a success, so I need you!

Stef

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16th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for Contributions

August  25-29, 2008 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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.

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.

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 - There will be a Smalltalk camp the 23-24th of  
august
   * Developers 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 1st June 2008
Notification of acceptance on 15 of June 2008
More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2008

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!

Subject: [ESUG 2008 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


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

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/


We hope to see you there and have fun together.