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Stephanne Ducasse has some announcements from Esug:

Call for contributions for the
13th International Smalltalk Conference
Saturday 13 august to saturday 20 august
Brussels
http://www.esug.org

For 13 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organized the International Smalltalk conference that aims at being a live forum on the cutting edge of software technologies. ESUG attracts people from both academia and industry for an entire week af activities. Every year about half of attendies are engineers using Smalltalk in business while the rest of attendies are students and teachers using Smalltalk for both their research and courses.

Like every year, this year's edition of the event will include the regular technical program with high quality invited speakers. As well, we'll have a research track with an excellent program committee, a business day about Smalltalk's successfull use in the market place, and a technology awards program where prizes will be distributed to the authors of the best pieces of Smalltalk related software.

THIS YEAR we are looking for YOUR EXPERIENCE Reports using smalltalk so please come to tell us more on your experience and projects

Here is a non exhaustive list of topics we are interested in:

• XP pratices
• Development tools
• Experience reports
• Model driven development
• Web development
• Team management
• Meta-Modeling
• Security
• New libraries
• new UI framework
• educational material
• Embedded systems

ESUG technical program

• Submissions due on 1st of May 2005
• Notification of acceptance on 15 of May 2005

ESUG Research Conference

• Paper of 25 pages max
• The best papers will be published in a special issue of Elsevier
• Computer Languages and Systems
• Submissions Deadline: 21st of May 2005,
• Notification of acceptance: 21st of June 2005,
• Final version: 31st of July 2005.

ESUG Education Conference Information

Smalltalk Business Conference

• Submissions due on 1st of May 2005
• Notifications on 21st of May 2005

Innovation Technology Awards

• 3 pages max describing the software + URL to download the software
• Submissions due on 30th of june
• Notifications of elegibility on 15th of july

Are you a student who wants to attend ESUG (the first European Conference on Smalltalk)? ESUG has again a student volunteer program so you can get the conference for free. Your duties will be low and you will have to help a bit the local organizers. ESUG will not pay the travel but the conference will be free and possibly the hosting will be also free depending on the number of students.

For Information on the student volunteer program click here

That's a lot of information on this year's ESUG conference - check it out - I'll see you there.