Again an argentinian project won the Innovation Technology Awards

This time in the 21th International Smalltalk Conference in Annecy, France, the winner of the Innovation Technology Awards is the project Oz Recovery Tools by Guillermo Polito.

Oz is an open source (experimental) platform for object spaces in Pharo. An object environment can be completely manipulated from another one, in the same process.

The second price is for Amber Smalltalk from Nicolas Petton and the third one is for Phratch from Jannik Laval.

Congratulations to the winners!

Some pics of the winners here, here and here in the ESUG 2013 album from Stephane Eggermont.

Note: BTW, beautiful jacket Guillermo, the glorious CABJ also winning in ESUG!

ESUG 2013 Conference is almost here!

The 21th ESUG conference will be held in Annecy, France 9-13 September 2013 with the Camp Smalltalk 8 September.

You can check here the conference schedule plenty of interesting talks related with Smalltalk technology. 

The conference will also includes an international workshop aimed to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchange of ideas.

Finally, the exciting challenge know as Innovation Technology Awards, with these titles for compete this year.

Esug 

The European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) is a non-profit users organization that supports all kinds of Smalltalk initiatives, especially free-open source ones that benefit the whole Smalltalk community. For example ESUG does:

• Link all users of the Smalltalk programming language and environments in Europe, individual and corporate
• Promote the use of Smalltalk
• Support local users groups and establish new ones
• Support Smalltalk projects and initiatives such as the Free Seaside Hosting Server

Smalltalks 2008 - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Announcement

First invitation to participate in the second conference.

Place
This year, the site chosen was the Universidad Abierta
Interamericana.

Dates
November 13 through November 15.

Costs
Once again, entry, coffee and pastries will be completely free.

Talks
The conference will be divided into two modules, Scientific Research and Software Industry.

Contest
A coding contest will be held this year.

Keynotes
Guest lectures by outstanding personalities.

Hands-on
Tutorial sessions.

Scope
This is an international conference; smalltalkers from everywhere will be attending.

Important Dates

Conference: November 13 through November 15.

Paper submission deadline (research): August 31.

Presentation submission deadline (software development): September
30.

Contest registration deadline: September 30.

Conference registration deadline: November 7.

REGISTRATIONS CAN ONLY BE MADE THOUGH THE CONFERENCE WEB PAGE (NOT AVAILABLE YET)

Important Addresses

Universidad Abierta Interamericana: Av. Montes de Oca 745.

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

ESUG 2008 International Smalltalk Conference

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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: Augustus 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!

Kind regards

ESUG 2008