Please note: this call contains several related but different announcements. Please distribute it widely.

********************************************************************** Call for contributions for the

14th International Smalltalk Conference Monday 4th - Friday 8 September 2006 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.esug.org

For the past 14 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organized the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both academia and industry for a whole week. Every year, around half of attendees are engineers using Smalltalk in business while the rest of attendees are students and teachers using Smalltalk for both their research and courses.

As every year, this year's edition of the event will include the regular technical program with high quality invited speakers. In addition, we'll have a research track with an excellent program committee, a business day about successful use of Smalltalk in the market place, and a technology award event where prizes will be distributed to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related software.

THIS YEAR we are looking for YOUR EXPERIENCE Reports using Smalltalk, so please come and tell others about your experience and projects

Here is a non exhaustive list of topics we are interested in: - XP practices - Development tools - Experience reports - Model driven development - Web development - Team management - Meta-Modeling - Security - New libraries - New UI frameworks - Educational material - Embedded systems

---------------------------------- ESUG Developers Conference -http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/developersconference/ -Submissions due on 30th of May 2006 -Notification of acceptance on 15 of June 2006

How to apply? Pay attention the places are limited and do not wait the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to esug-info@esug.org following the template below. Pay attention to follow the template since the email will be automatically treated!

Subject: [ESUG 2006 Presentations] + your name First Name: Last Name: Email where you can always be reached: Title: Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically

---------------------------------- ESUG Research Conference -http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/researchconference/ - Paper of 25 pages max - Submissions Deadline: Sunday 28th May, 0hrs CET - Notification of acceptance: 15 of July 2006 - Final version: 1st of August

---------------------------------- Innovation Technology Awards -http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/innovationtechnologyawards/ - 3 pages max describing the software + URL to download the software - Submissions due on 30th of june 2006 - Notifications of elegibility on 15th of july 2006

---------------------------------- Are you a student, and do you want to attend ESUG (the premier European Conference on Smalltalk)? This year, ESUG again has a student volunteer program you can apply for. Your duties will be few, and you will have to help the local organizers. ESUG does not pay travel costs, but the conference will be free. Depending on the number of students the hosting will possibly also be free.

http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/ esug2006studentvolunteersprogram/

Prof. Stéphane DUCASSE [ | ] http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes

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