The Weekly Squeak

Category: Conferences

  • Upcoming Smalltalks 2025 conference at Facultad de Ingeniería, UBA

    Upcoming Smalltalks 2025 conference at Facultad de Ingeniería, UBA

    The Smalltalks 2025 conference is coming soon! The conference will take place from November 5 to 7, 2025, at the Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

    When & Where

    • Dates: November 5-7, 2025
    • Location: Facultad de Ingeniería, UBA

    Registration & Call for Talks

    Registration for the event is now open (here), and participants are encouraged to secure their spot early. In addition, the call for talk proposals is available (here) – a great opportunity to share your work and ideas with the Smalltalk community.

    Sponsorship Opportunities

    Organizations interested in supporting the conference can explore the sponsorship options available (here). It is a chance to engage with the community while helping make the event possible.

    Stay tuned for more updates, and don’t miss out on one of the most exciting gatherings for the Smalltalk community!

    Have a great time with Smalltalk and keep on Squeaking!

  • ESUG 2025 International Conference

    ESUG 2025 International Conference

    The 30th ESUG conference/summer-school will be held in Gdansk, Poland from Tuesday 1st to Friday 4th of July 2025.

    Program & Info

    To be fleshed out.

    Calls for Contributions

    Conference registration

    Early registration deadline: 15/04/2025

    Conference prices ESUG 2025 in Euros:

    • Early Registration Fee: 600€ (all days) / 200€ (per day)
    • Late Registration Fee: 1000€ (all days) / 300€ (per day)
    • Extra person to social dinner: 70€
    • Payment by bank transfer: free of charge
    • Payment by credit card: +6% fees
    • For late registrations we cannot ensure the availability of T-Shirts nor Social Event extra participants
    • : If the refund is requested during the early bird period all the fee (without charges) will be refunded. If it is requested after the early bird period is finished, the refund will be 50%

    Stay tuned.

    Conference organization

    ESUG 2025 organization committee

    • Stéphane Ducasse, Inria Lille, France.
    • Pablo Tesone, Pharo Consortium, France.
    • Marcus Denker, Inria Lille, France.
    • Noury Bouraqadi, IMT, France.
    • Luc Fabresse, IMT Nord Europe, France.
    • Christophe Demarey, Inria Lille, France.
    • Steven Costiou, Inria Lille, France.
    • Oleksandr Zaitsev, CIRAD, France.
    • Mariusz Matuszek, Gdansk University, Poland
    • Paweł Czarnul, Gdansk University, Poland

    IWST 2025 organization committee

    • Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    • Guille Polito, Inria Lille, France
    • Steven Costiou, Inria Lille, France
  • Upcoming Smalltalks 2024 conference at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

    Upcoming Smalltalks 2024 conference at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

    The Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata will host this year’s Smalltalks 2024 conference from November 13 to 15. A pre-conference Smalltalks track, designed for students and teachers, will take place on November 11 and 12.


    Registration is open here, and talk proposals can be submitted until September 30 (extended from the original September 13 deadline). Accepted talks will be announced on October 10.

    For more details and updates, visit https://smalltalks2024.fast.org.ar/home.

  • ESUG 2024 at Lille France

    ESUG 2024 at Lille France

    The 30th ESUG conference/summer-school will be held in Lille, France from 8 to 11 of July 2024.

    Conference calls

    Conference registration

    Early registration deadline: 15/04/2024

    Conference prices ESUG 2024 in Euros:

    • Early Registration Fee: 600€ (all days) / 200€ (per day)
    • Late Registration Fee: 1000€ (all days) / 300€ (per day)
    • Extra person to social dinner: 70€
    • Payment by bank transfer: free of charge
    • Payment by credit card: +6% fees
    • For late registrations we cannot ensure the availability of T-Shirts nor Social Event extra participants
    • : If the refund is requested during the early bird period all the fee (without charges) will be refunded. If it is requested after the early bird period is finished, the refund will be 50%

    Stay tuned.

  • Smalltalks 2016 Argentina Videos

    Gilad Bracha – Utopia And Dystopia: Smalltalk And The Wider World

    Many more videos available here:

  • Cool, Interesting – WAIT – is that SCRATCH!!

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer

    Scratch on CHIP

    The wildly popular C.H.I.P. comes pre-loaded with Scratch!

    Nice play C.H.I.P.!

  • 23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions

    Please distribute widely

    ESUG

     

    23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions

     

    Brescia, Italy

    from 13 to 17 July 2015

    http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2015/

     

    This call includes:

    Developer Forum

    Smalltalk Technology Award

    International Workshop

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_15

    Student Volunteer

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers

    Camp Smalltalk 12 July 2015

     

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    You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:

     

    * Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/About/BecomeSponsor

    * 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 (170 people at Amsterdam 2008)!

    * Students can get free registration and hosting if they enrol

    into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.

     

    Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference

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    We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have

    30 min for presentations and 45-60 min for hand-ons tutorial.

     

    The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials 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

     

    Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business

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    – Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!)

    – Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP.

     

    We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated.

     

    !! How to submit?

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    Submissions deadline is 15 of May 2015

    Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly.

    More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2015

     

     

    Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last  minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to  Stephane.Ducasse at inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2015 Developers].

     

    Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed!

     

    Subject: [ESUG 2015 Developers] + your name  First Name:

    Last Name:

    Email where you can always be reached:

    Title:

    Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl

    Abstract:

    Bio:

     

    Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically

     

     

    International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

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    Read the page: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_15

     

    Technology Award Competition

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    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 at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2015/

     

    Student Volunteer Program

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    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 at

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/

    http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers

     

    We hope to see you there and have fun together.

     

     

     

  • Spur Memory Manager Object Format Explained

    spur_gear

     

    Clément Béra just posted an excellent article explaining the new Spur Object format.  Definitely worth a read!

    Eliot Miranda has also mentioned that Spur is coming to life in Newspeak as we speak and then Squeak 5.0.

    Find out more about the Squeak VM called Cog and the new memory manager called Spur at Eliot’s Cog Blog.

  • Cog Development Welcomes Clément Béra

    Bert VM Icon(icon by Bert)

    Word has it that Clément Béra is working With Eliot Miranda on Cog.  Göran pointed out Clements excellent blog: here, to me a few weeks ago after meeting him at ESUG.

    From Eliot: Clément Béra is, amongst other things, working on Cog performance, looking at adaptive optimization/speculative inlining (Sista in Cog, for Speculative Inlining Smalltalk Architecture).

    I just wanted to welcome Clément Béra and to say thank you to everyone working on the VM for both communities, you know who you are (and we do to) and especially Eliot for working on Cog and keeping the advancements coming!  Hip Hip … and all that.

  • Alan Kay – Abel, Fields and Turing Laureates Meet the Next Generation

    Kay SketckPad Ivan Sutherland

     

    Alan Kay Meeting the Next Generation.  See the talk here: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-friday-september-27-alan-kay/