The Weekly Squeak

ESUG, the organisers of the 16th International Smalltalk Joint Conference, to be held 25-29 August 2008 in Amsterdam, have issued a call for contributions. Submissions are to be made by 1st June 2008, with notification of acceptance on 15th June 2008.

About the Conference

For the past 16 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. This year’s conference will also see the 4th year of the Innovation Technology Awards, where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects.

The conference features the following events:

• Camp Smalltalk – There will be a Smalltalk camp on 23-24 August
• Developers Forum
• Technology Forum

Developers Forum
This year we are looking for your experience with 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-Modelling
• Security
• New libraries & frameworks
• Educational material
• Embedded systems and robotics
• SOA and Web services
• Interaction with other programming languages

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, €300 and €200 during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete.

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.

We hope to see you there and have fun together.