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  • Squeak Oversight Board 2026 – Call For Candidates

    Squeak Oversight Board 2026 – Call For Candidates

    The message below was shared by Patrick Rein on the Squeak Developers mailing list (link here). We encourage you to put your name forward or support a candidate by casting your vote on Squeak-dev. This is a great opportunity to take part. Now is a great time to become involved!

    Hi All,

    (If you plan to run, please note the important information for board members below).

    It’s that time again. Time to raise your voices and elect your leaders! Can you believe it’s been over a year already?

    It’s a time for you to stand up, help your community and volunteer to serve!

    Squeak wants you!

    Every year we elect the SOB (Squeak Oversight Board) consisting of seven members from our community. The current board members are:

    • Marcel Taeumel
    • Vanessa Freudenberg
    • Eliot Miranda
    • Tim Rowledge
    • David T. Lewis
    • Christoph Thiede
    • Rachel Crowther
    • Scott Gibson

    For more info on the board please see:  https://squeakboard.wordpress.com/our-mission/

    Everything about the election, including schedule and more, can be tracked here:  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6675

    Now until Friday 8th of May 2026, 18.00 UTC: Nominations of SOB members and campaigning!

    Important Information for Candidates: As Squeak is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, board members need to follow and sign the SFCs conflict of interest policy, which you can find here: https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/conflict-of-interest-policy.html

    Candidates should nominate themselves and start their campaign on the squeak-dev mailing list. Or if you nominate someone else, make sure that person really wants to run. 🙂 I will not put anyone on the candidate list until that person makes it known on squeak-dev that he/she intends to run.

    During this period, the candidates should ideally present themselves on squeak-dev, unless they have already done so, and the community can ask questions.

    I encourage you to reach out to potential candidates, people that are active in the community and represent your views, and ask them to run. Some people will not run without encouragement.  Also, I know that some people wait to the last minute to run for the board to see if others will run but please consider getting this year off to a faster start and just jump right in!

    The schedule and process are as follows:

    • Now until Friday 8th of May 2026, 18.00 UTC: Nominations of SOB members and campaigning!
    • Friday 8th of May 2026, 18.00 UTC: Candidate list is finalized.
    • Friday 8th of May 2026, ~19.00 UTC: Online election starts.
    • Friday 22nd of May 2026, 19.00 UTC: Online election ends.
    • Results will be announced immediately after the election ends.

    The voting period is two weeks long and ballots are sent out via email.

    And how do you end up on the voter list? See below. 🙂

    IMPORTANT: New voters will not be added once the election is started. You must try to get on the voter list before the 8th of May 2026 or you will not be able to vote. If your Email has changed please try to make sure it is changed on the list of voters before the election starts.

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    If you were invited to vote last year you are already on the voter list, no worries! If you are a new Squeaker and wish to vote you should do one of the following:

    • Get a “known” Squeaker to vouch for you. If a known Squeaker sends an email to voters (at) squeak.org giving me a name and email for you, then I will add you.
    • Send an email to voters (at) squeak.org yourself (and CC to squeak-dev if you like) with information/arguments showing me that you are indeed serious about voting and that you are indeed a Squeaker.

    When the voting period starts all voters will receive an email with instructions and a link to the voting website.

    If there are any further questions, just reply *in this thread* and I will closely track it – or send email to voters (at) squeak.org which is updated and points to me.

    …so let’s get on with it!

    All the best, Patrick

    Photo by Tara Winstead from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-holding-white-and-red-love-print-card-8850718/

  • ESUG 2026 International Conference

    ESUG 2026 International Conference

    31st International Joint Conference ESUG

    The 31st ESUG conference will be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from Tuesday 7th to Friday 10th of July 2026. The colocated isLoop summer school to be held from Saturday 4th to Monday 6th of July 2026 and spread all during the conference through student volunteering program.

    Location and Venue

    Calls for Contributions

    This call includes:

    Call for Presentations

    ESUG Main Track is inviting interested speakers! In the Call for Presentations we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45-60 min for hand-ons tutorial.

    Technology Award Competition

    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. Read more in the Call for the Innovation Technology Awards

    Show us Your Project

    Additionally, we invite all attendies to announce their fresh work in any of Smalltalk technologies and to show it shortly during the dedicated sessions during the conference. We will collect the show topics during the conference at the student volunteer desk.

    International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

    IWST is an inspirative venue for sharing early ideas, preliminary results, tool demonstration, and any other more-or less immature form of innovation and research contribution published in an academic manner.

    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. More information. From last year, ESUG is co-locating the isLoop summer school for student volunteers during the weekend before the conference.

    You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:

    • Sponsor the conference by our sponsoring packages
    • 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.

    Thanks to our sponsors, students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the Student Volunteers program.

    Conference Registration

    Conference Registration. Now you can also pay (without extra fees) at HelloAsso.

    Early registration deadline: 01/04/2026

    Registration fees are:

    • 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

    Note! In case of (too) late registrations we cannot ensure the availability of T-Shirts nor Social Event entrance for extra participants. Cancellation Policy: 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%.

    Got to the Conference organization