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Smalltalks 2008 - 2nd Argentinian Smalltalk Conference
November 13th – 15th Buenos Aires, Argentina

Conference Site:
http://neuquina.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar:8001/Smalltalks-2008

Last year, Smalltalks 2007 (1st Argentinian Smalltalk Conference) was a lively forum on Smalltalk-based software technologies that attracted over more than 200 people from both academia and industry for three days. During this first conference, the industrial partners showed the applicability of Smalltalk in business, while the students and professors showed their research and didactic uses of Smalltalk. The presented approaches andmethodologies concerned the language, its implementation technology, its
programming tools as well as the software development culture it supports. In this year conference, we are extending the scope of the research and educational track to include other dynamic languages, not only Smalltalk.

In this call, we invite research papers that report on original scientific research conducted in and/or for Smalltalk and Dynamic Languages in general.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Aspects, Aspect Languages and Applications.
• Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing and Embedded Systems.
• Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines.
• Educational Material.
• Language Engineering, Extensions.
• Model Driven Engineering / Development.
• Meta-Modeling.
• Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures and Components.
• Programming Environments, Browsers, User Interfaces, UI Frameworks.
• Reasoning About Code (Analysis, Refactoring, Type Inference, Metrics).
• Reflection and Meta-programming.
• Team Management.
• Testing, Extreme Programming / Practices.
• Web Services, Internet Applications, Event-driven Programming.
• Experience Reports.

Important dates:

• Submission (Hard Deadline): September 7th, 2008 (Argentinian time).
• Notification of acceptance: October 6th, 2008.
• Camera Ready Submission: October 15th, 2008.

Papers:
Papers should be written in English, in pdf-format and not exceed 10 pages (including references and figures), using the 2-column IEEE conference format. Templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX formats can be found at http://www.ieee.org/go/conferencepublishing/templates

Papers must be submitted through the Conference Website, in the Research Track section. The accepted papers will be published in the Smalltalks 2008 Research Track Proceedings published by CEUR (online proceedings for scientific workshops) and will be digitally available in the conference website. Papers submitted must not have been previously published and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly adhere to submission guidelines.

If you have questions, please send an e-mail to Gabriela Arévalo (gabriela.arevalo at lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar) using [Smalltalks08-RT] as tag in the e-mail subject.

Program Committee:

• Federico Balaguer (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Tulio Ballari (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Alexandre Bergel (INRIA, Lille, France)
• Gilad Bracha (Cadence Design Systems, USA)
• Johan Brichau (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• Cecilia Challiol (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Marco D’Ambros (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• Marcus Denker (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Fernando Dodino (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Stéphane Ducasse (INRIA, Lille, France)
• Alejandra Garrido (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Tudor Girba (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Orla Greevy (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Julián Grigera (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, Germany)
• Andy Kellens (PROG, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
• Michele Lanza (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• Kim Mens (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• Guillermo Adrián Molina (ESSI Projects, Spain)
• Damien Pollet (INRIA, Lille, France)
• Romain Robbes (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• David Röthlisberger (SCG, University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Daniel Solmirano (UTN, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Tom Van Cutsem (PROG, Vrije Universeit Brussels, Belgium)
• Roel Wuyts (IMEC, Belgium)

Organizing Committee:

• Gabriela Arévalo (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
• Andrés Fortier (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

Interested in Seaside?  Want to see its makers show Maglev? You can do both in Amsterdam in late August at the 2008 ESUG conference.

Thursday 28th,  a whole day of Seaside.  See Web Velocity and GLASS demoed in the morning, Maglev in the evening, talk to Seaside experts, get hands-on Seaside experience. Look at thursday schedule.

• GLASS and Maglev are both provided by GemStone, whose top engineers will be at the conference
• Web Velocity builds Seaside web apps that talk to relational databases
• see how to get started fast, and evolve fast beyond the end of the rails

Can’t spare a whole day?  Wednesday 27th is a short day;  see a Maglev demo, Pier (a Seaside open-source CMS) and talk to Seasiders.  Look at the schedule.

Can you spare more than a day?  The conference lasts for a week.

So far, we have 123 registred people to the ESUG 2008 conference. Registrants are from 19 countries from 5 continents (of course Europe, but also, North America, South America, Asia and Africa).

With the current rate of daily registrations, we expect a full house (150 people). So, if you plan to come to Amsterdam, register yourself ASAP.

The previous record was 116 in 2004 when ESUG conf was held in Köthen, Anhalt, Germany !

We have now 78 registrations for ESUG’08 at Amsterdam. The record to be beaten is of 116 people with ESUG’ 03 in Köthen. Time for you to register to the Smalltalk event of the year ! The early registration rates are only until July 15th.

L’ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) organise les 5ième “Innovation Technology Awards”. Les 3 meilleurs propositions recevront respectivement : 500, 300 et 200 euros pendant la cérémonie de la 16ième conférence Smalltalk organisé à Amsterdam au mois d’août.
Un nouveau record a été établi cette année, puisque 22 soumissions ont été reçus jusqu’à présent.

Noury just announced that the ESUG’08 conference just reached 63 registrations. We want to have more than 100 people this year. Look at the great program with talks of Gilad Bracha and Eliot Miranda !

L’Espace Mendes France (EMF) de Poitiers à publié une vidéo comprenant plusieurs interviews de participants de la conférence C5. On retrouve notamment une intervention de Markus Gaelli qui parle d’Open Croquet, Samir Saidini de Squeak, Wendy Mc Kay sur la conception participative ainsi qu’une présentation de SqueakBot par des animateurs de Planète Sciences. Merci à Patrick Treguer pour la réalisation de ce reportage.

Dear software engineer,

End of August, a unique conference will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This conference is organized by the European Smalltalk
User Group (ESUG).

Smalltalk is a dynamic and
reflective language exercising a continuing influence on historic and
current developments in programming languages and software technology.

This year celebrates the 16th edition of the ESUG conference, which
features more than 40 presentations on, among others, the following
subjects:

Programming Language Platforms:
- Newspeak (New open source dynamic language focusing on modularity,
security and interoperability)
- Cog (New highly optimized open source Squeak VM)
- Maglev (Highly scalable Ruby VM)
- OpenCroquet (Deeply collaborative, multi-user online Smalltalk
development environment)

Web Frameworks:
- Seaside (The continuation & component-based web framework)
- WebVelocity
- AidaWeb (Smalltalk Web Application Server)
- WebTerminal

Model Driven Engineering:
- The Meta Environment Language Workbench
- ObjectStudio ModelingTool
- Fame; Meta-modeling Framework
- MBA Smalltalk; to manage your objects

Additionally, the winners of the ABN Amro sponsored Innovation Awards
will be presented.

Are you interested in the latest developments in dynamic languages and
Web development, be sure to register as soon as possible at
http://www.esug.org.

Important information:

Conference website:
http://www.esug.org/conferences/16thinternationalsmalltalkjointconference2008/

Time: August 25-29, 2008
Venue: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Kruislaan 413,
Amsterdam, Turing Zaal.
Directions: http://www.cwi.nl/about/directions.html

Hope to see you at ESUG’08!

Noury Bouraqadi vient de l’annoncer sur différentes listes Smalltalk et Squeak :

Le programme de l’édition 2008 de la conférence ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) est désormais en ligne avec notamment 2 excellents orateurs invités : Gilad Bracha et Eliot Miranda. A cela s’ajoute de multiples exposés et démos. Cette année nous avons eu tellement de bonnes soumissions que nous avons planifié des sessions en parallèle. Cela montre le dynamisme et la bonne santé de la communauté Smalltalk.

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes. Je vous invite à nous rejoindre à Amsterdam pour une semaine Smalltalkienne qui s’annonce des meilleurs crus.

Pour le bureau ESUG,
Noury

Après Poitiers l’an passé, la 7ième édition de la conférence C5 (Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing) aura lieu du 19 au 22 janvier 2009 à Kyoto. Un exposé d’Alan Kay (VPRI) est déjà prévu. L’appel à communications que je suis en train de rédiger devrait être disponible d’ici la fin du moi de juin.