15th International Smalltalk Joint Conference - Call for
Contributions
August 25 - 31, 2007 - Lugano, Switzerland
For the past 14 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. Last, but not least the event includes
as usual a research conference which was renamed this year into
"International Conference on Dynamic Languages". This reflects the
widening of the scope of this conference to enable
cross-fertilization with research conducted using other dynamic
languages.
You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:
- Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described
here
- 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
- Developers Forum
- Research Forum
- Technology Forum
Developers Forum : International Smalltalk Developers
Conference
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 30th of May 2007
Notification of acceptance on 15 of June 2007
More information is available
here
Research Forum : International Conference on Dynamic
Languages
Smalltalk is one of the oldest object-oriented languages, but
its conception and programming environment can still be considered
as a design pearl and as a beacon in the realm of programming
languages and programming environments. The bulk of its modern
contenders are still lacking many of the features that Smalltalkers
find both mundane and essential. Nevertheless, as software
engineering practices and new application fields evolve, Smalltalk
should keep up. This concerns the language, its implementation
technology, its programming tools as well as the software
development culture it supports. The research forum invites
scientific articles that report on original research conducted in
and/or for Smalltalk. The list of topics includes, but is not
limited to the following:
- Aspects, Aspect languages and Applications
- Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous & Pervasive Computing
- Embedded Systems
- Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines
- Formalizations
- Language Engineering, Extensions
- Model Driven Engineering
- Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures,
Components
- Development Environments
- Program Analysis
- Reflection and Metaprogramming
- Testing
- Agile Techniques
- Web Services & Internet Applications
More information is available
here
Technology Forum
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 is available
here
Student Volunteer Program
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 is available
here
Noury on behalf of the ESUG board
Dr. Noury Bouraqadi - Enseignant/Chercheur
ARMINES - Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. I.A.
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/noury
European Smalltalk Users Group Board
http://www.esug.org
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