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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.

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 !

Michael Rüger, qui doit faire une présentation de Sophie au RMLL’08, a fait une petite démonstration de Squeak sur un iTouch lors de son passage sur le stand ESUG. Voilà la vidéo en avant première sur #dNU :

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

J’ai lancé un groupe Facebook pour la conférence ESUG 2008. La conférence est également annoncée sur le site upcoming.org. Vous avez la possibilité d’afficher sur votre site web ou blog, les prochains évènements concernant Smalltalk en rejoignant le groupe Smalltalk et utilisant un badge Upcoming comme celui ci :

La conférence ESUG’08 qui se déroulera du 25 au 29 août 2008 à Amsterdam a maintenant son logo.