Immersive Education the focus of 2008 Boston Summit (January 12-13 at Boston College)
3 January, 2008
From Aaron E. Walsh:
Happy New Year, everyone. As we enter 2008 I’m happy to announce that the Boston Digital Media Summit (next weekend) is focused on Immersive Education and will feature Croquet in several sessions (see the schedule of events below; Julian’s keynote is on Day 1 — January 12th).
Please join us if you’re in the Boston area or would like to make a trip for the event. The news release is below, and I’ve attached the PDF version as well.
It’s also in HTML format along with related news items at:
http://ImmersiveEducation.org/#NEWS
The Summit schedule of events has been set, which you can also see at:
http://mediagrid.org/summit/ (main page)
http://mediagrid.org/summit/program.html (schedule of events)
Best regards,
Aaron
The First Smalltalk Conference In Argentina
18 December, 2007
From Hernan Wilkinson:
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that the Smalltalks 2007 presentations are available at https://www.dc.uba.ar/events/smalltalks/2007/presentaciones
Most of them are in English although not all.
You can look some pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/smalltalks2007 and http://picasaweb.google.com/WeybridgeWay/1erCongresoArgentinoDeSmalltalk
I wanted to give a public “Thanks” to ESUG for their support (DVD, book, ideas, etc), Viewpoints, Dan Ingalls, James Robertson, John Sarkela and Bruce Badger for the videos. Stef and Noury sent me something to read but finally I did not have the time to do it (sorry). Also, to all the sponsors that helped us with the conference.
Below are some comments we got in the Argentine Smalltalk lists (first in Spanish and then in English, translated by Andres Valloud).
It is very hard for me to find the right words to express how happy we are with the outcome of the conference, not only for the amount of people that came but also for their kindness and technical level of the presentations. Thanks to all.
Squeak BOF at OOPSLA – highlights + videos
24 October, 2007
Alexandre Bergel and Göran Krampe reported on the mailing-list (1, 2) the highlights of the Squeak BOF session at OOPSLA 2007 on Monday:
- Jamie Douglass discussed CAT, an alternative to SmaCC
- Andrew P. Black showed “Squeak by Example” (and sold a few more copies!)
- Alessandro Warth showed how to implement a JavaScript interpreter in 300 lines of code by using OMeta (SqueakMap page, paper[pdf] co-authored with Ian Piumarta)
- Göran gave a presentation on DeltaStreams
- Maurice Rabb talked about condensing the change and sources files of Squeak
- Alexandre Bergel introduced Athena Smalltalk – a Smalltalk Virtual Machine in Java, and intended to be embedded in Java applications (project homepage)
- Bert Freudenberg and Yoshiki Ohshima demonstrated eToys on the OLPC XO laptop
Göran filmed the event, and has made the videos available at his blog.
Alexander Lazarevič is making compressed versions available through an online player:
- http://en.sevenload.com/videos/fLnZ2gj/Squeak-BOF-OOPSLA-2007-1-3 (196MB)
- http://en.sevenload.com/videos/r8msK6w/Squeak-BOF-OOPSLA-2007-2-3 (130MB)
- (number 3 still being processed)
Conference round-up
10 October, 2007
Georg Heeg, the Executive Director of The Smalltalk Industry Council, announced on the mailing list that STIC has a new website and is organising next year’s Smalltalk Solutions conference for 18-21 June in Reno, Nevada. For more details, check out Georg’s blog.
Hernan Wilkinson and Andres Valloud announced the first Smalltalk conference in Argentina, to be held in Buenos Aires on 10 December this year. See the conference website for more details (in Spanish, but with a summary of events in English).
If you can’t make it to Buenos Aires that week, how about Paris? Serge Stinckwich announced the 6th SmalltalkParty on 11 December. There’s more information (in French) on Serge’s blog.
Göran Krampe is organising a Squeak BOF (birds of a feather) session at this year’s OOPSLA conference, being held on 21-25 October in Montréal. More details of the programme at the OOPSLA conference website. The BOF session will be on Monday evening at 19:00.
Don’t Miss Cincom’s Seaside Podcasts Next Week
30 September, 2007
From Michael Lucas-Smith:
Hi Everyone,
Just a heads up that Industry Misinterpretations, our Smalltalk podcast, has three podcasts specifically about Seaside coming out over the next week.
Podcast #1: Myself, James Robertson, Tamara Kogan, Martin Kobetic, Arden Thomas
Podcast #2: Myself, James Robertson, Michel Bany, Alan Knight, Arden Thomas
Podcast #3: Myself, James Robertson, The entire Gemstone GLASS team
The podcasts will be appearing here:
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=podcasts
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (just search for smalltalk) or with: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/blog_podcast.xml
They’ll also be announced on James’s blog:
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView
Cheers,
Michael
Dynamic Language Symposium
7 August, 2007
Call For Papers!
Are you ready to OOPSLA!!
The Dynamic Language Symposium is looking for participants.
D L S 2 0 0 7
Dynamic Languages Symposium
October 22, 2007
Palais des congres de Montreal
Montreal, Canada
co-located with OOPSLA 2007
sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/
The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation and application. While mature dynamic languages including Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Self, and Prolog continue to grow and inspire new converts, a new generation of dynamic scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript are successful in a wide range of applications. DLS provides a place for researchers and practitioners to come together and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development.
This year 30 papers were submitted to the Dynamic Languages Symposium of which 9 papers were accepted. The program committee reviewed each paper and met electronically to select papers for the final program.
We are pleased host invited talks by Mark Miller and Jim Hugunin.
The program of the Dynamic Languages Symposium is available from http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/
Please note that participation in DLS requires registration with OOPSLA at http://www.regmaster.com/conf/oopsla2007.html or http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/
Contact:
Pascal Costanza (pascal.costanza @ vub.ac.be)
Robert Hirschfeld (hirschfeld @ hpi.uni-potsdam.de)
SqueakFest ’07 – Register Now!
30 June, 2007
From Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute:
Greetings –
Online registration is now available for SqueakFest ’07!
http://imamp.colum.edu/eceim/squeakfest07/index.php
We’re putting together a great three day program including hands-on workshops, panels, presentations, casual sharing time and fun social events.
Alan Kay will give a talk about the One Laptop Per Child Initiative, the “xo” machine and Squeak Etoys on this platform.
Registration for the entire program is $125.00. Please register
early as this will be helpful for our planning. We also encourage
you to BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM(s) EARLY! Chicago will host numerous summer events and hotels are already near capacity for August 1-3.
Some suggested accomodations appear on the SqueakFest website:
http://imamp.colum.edu/eceim/squeakfest07/accommodations.php
Please forward this email to anyone you know that may be interested in attending.
Come join us in Chicago! We look forward to seeing you there.
cheers,
Kim
Google Summer Of Code – Squeak’n style
16 April, 2007
Thanks to a lot of very hard work by Giovanni Corriga all the mentors and applicants, Squeak was selected for five projects in the Google Summer of Code. Read the rest of this entry »
Squeak meeting in Potsdam, Germany
11 April, 2007
Bert Freudenberg wrote to the Squeak-dev mailing list to announce a meeting of German-speaking squeakers. The meeting will take place on Saturday, May 12th at 17:00 in Potsdam, Germany, at the Hasso Plattner Institut.
SqueakFest ’07 at Columbia College Chicago
22 March, 2007
We have lift off. Columbia College Chicago and Viewpoints Research Institute today announced the dates and location for SqueakFest ’07.
SqueakFest ’07 will be held at
August 1, 2 & 3
Please mark your calendars and help spread the word about this exciting event for educators, parents, community and technical leaders, and developers. There will be hands on workshops, key note presentations, panel discussions and more. Come learn, share you experiences, and show off your Squeak Etoys projects. There are also plans for a special OLPC track where you can learn more about this worthwhile initiative.
Check back for more information as this exciting event takes shape www.squeakland.org. Please save the date!
