The Weekly Squeak

Category: Events

  • Dynamic Language Symposium

    Dynamic Languages 2

    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!

    SqueakFest 07 Official

    Register for SqueakFest ’07.

    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

    Squeak Summer Of Code

    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. (more…)

  • Squeak meeting in Potsdam, Germany

    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

    SqueakFest ‘07

    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

    Columbia College Chicago

    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!

  • Squackers meeting – November

    Craig Latta writes:

    Hi all–

    Every month I host “Squackers”, a meeting of Squeak hackers. It
    happens near San Francisco, USA, on first Wednesdays from 8pm to 10pm
    pacific time; the next one will be on 1 November 2006. We get together
    to show what we’ve been doing and dreaming in Squeak. We also tie in
    people from far away via AIM (for audio and video) and VNC (to share
    screens).

    In November we’ll have an OOPSLA redux, I’ll show a timekeeping
    system I wrote for consulting projects, and we’ll watch and discuss
    other demos and topics that people have.

    Please let me know if you can make it (either in person or
    virtually), if you need directions, and if you have something you’d like
    to show or discuss. My AIM ID is “[deleted]”

    proceed for truth! 🙂

    -C

    Editor’s notice: I’ve decided not to publish Craig’s AIM id. If you’re interested in attending the meeting and need to contact Craig, please follow the link to the squeak-dev archive posting.

  • Bern Smalltalk party writeup

    Klaus D. Witzel sent us a report on last Saturday’s Smalltalk Party in Bern, that we are happy to publish. Thanks, Klaus!

    Last Saturday two dozen Smalltalkers enjoyed a very successfull Smalltalk Party in Bern. We received presentations and life demos in VW, Dolphin and Squeak, from authors and users of

    There was plenty of time between the presentations for breakout sessions during which newbies, users and authors happily hacked together and discussed new developments and burning questions.

    The party culminated at the Tramdepot Brewery and Restaurant, downtown in Bern, where the Smalltalkers “almost” chilled out and enjoyed a recreating meal and tasteful drinks.

    Our deep thanks go to the executive organizer Marcus Denker; to SSUG, sponsor of snacks and drinks; and to SCG, who set up this wonderful meeting and generously provided facilities.