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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.

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 !

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!

With Wordle, you can view the Kernel-Objects category of Squeak as an artistic tags cloud.

During the national final of the 2007 french robotics trophy organized by Planète Science, a new video about the SqueakBot project was done. In the beginning of the movie, Séverin shows two children how to build with Squeak EToys of Squeak how to control a remote robotic flower, and then he tells us more about the “Boîte à Bots”, a robotic suitcase developed by Planet Science for the schools, which contains the basic components to build a robot, the SqueakBot software platform and tutorials for teachers.

After the Camp Smalltalk weekend, the 15th European Smalltalk User Group - ESUG 2007 - starts with the opening and welcome by Stéphane Ducasse and Michele Lanza.
Various media including presentation slides will be available in nearly real-time there http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/Esug2007Media/