Category: Smalltalks

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!
25 September, 2025
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.

20 September, 2024
Smalltalks 2016 Argentina Videos

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

Many more videos available here:

2 December, 2016
Cool, Interesting – WAIT – is that SCRATCH!!

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

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

Nice play C.H.I.P.!

12 May, 2015
Spur Memory Manager Object Format Explained

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.

19 January, 2014
Alan Kay – Abel, Fields and Turing Laureates Meet the Next Generation

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

28 September, 2013
Smalltalks 2011

Worried that you won’t be able to come to Edinburgh for ESUG 2011? Well how about joining your fellow Smalltalkers in Argentina in November for Smalltalks 2011?

The Smalltalks conference brings together more than 200 people from both academia and industry to discuss Smalltalk-based software over three days. Smalltalks conferences have included many high-quality presentations from industry and research, showing interesting applications of Smalltalk, advances in the Smalltalk language, didactic uses of Smalltalk and much more.

This year’s conference runs from 3rd—5th November at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (English site) in Bernal, Argentina (just 15km from Buenos Aires).

As in previous years, there will be a dedicated research track for original scientific contributions to, or using, Smalltalk in general. If you’re interested in submitting a paper for the conference, the hard deadline is 22nd August 2011, with notification of acceptance by 23rd September.

See the call for papers for more details of submission guidelines and criteria.

27 June, 2011
Smalltalks 2010 – conference report

Smalltalks 2010 took place last weekend, meaning that the post-conference reports have started hitting the blogs, and they’re universally enthusiastic about the content, organisation and atmosphere of the event.

Organised by Fundacion Argentina de Smalltalk (FAST), and hosted this year by Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, in Concepción del Uruguay, Smalltalks aims to “strengthen the Argentine and international Smalltalk communities through the exchange of works, experiences and anecdotes connected with this technology or related matters”. This year’s speakers included Gilad Bracha, Eliot Miranda, Lukas Renggli and many many more (see the conference home page for a full listing and descriptions of talks).

German Arduino described it as an “excellent event, with very very good organization—thanks to the hard work of FAST people—and high level technical talks”.

Felipao Banados was attending his first Smalltalk conference, and was also impressed: “I remember talking with classmates and hearing things like ‘Yeah, Smalltalk, nice. But where can you work on that afterwards?’ Well, there ARE a lot of interesting places to do it, and there is a need for smalltalk programmers.”

Andrés Valloud posted some rocking photos of the social event, and reported that the conference even got coverage in the local paper, including a video interview with Hernán Wilkinson.

As James Robertson wrote: “Sounds a lot like ESUG to me – and that’s a good thing.”

18 November, 2010
Smalltalks 2009 videos and photos available

Hernan Wilkinson wrote to the squeak -dev mailing list that the Smalltalks 2009 presentations are available now at the Smalltalks Conference site under the “Talks” tab. Given that the speakers included such well-known figures as Dan Ingalls, Stephane Ducasse, Alex Warth, Tim Mackinnon, James Foster and Travis Griggs, there should be some fascinating viewing to be had.

Hernan added: “You can watch also the video used during the presentation that summarizes the previous two years of the conference, it is a very nice video. It is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekRhvg7W6AQ“.

There are also links to other videos and pictures from the conference home page.

12 December, 2009