1. Serge Stinckwich
Serge.Stinckwich@esug.org

2. The European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) is a
non-profit users organization that supports all
kinds of Smalltalk initiatives, especially free-open
source ones that benefit the whole Smalltalk
community.
■ Link all users of the Smalltalk programming
language and environments in Europe,
individual and corporate
■ Promote the use of Smalltalk
■ Support local users groups and establish new
ones
■ Support Smalltalk projects and initiatives such
as Free Seaside Hosting Server with
netstyle.ch

3. BREST
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ESUG 2009

4. 1 ESUG Actions

5. YourArticle
• ESUG offer 100 euros for each paper that
get published on Smalltalk
• public press (not research papers)

6. YourPublication
• ESUG offers 250 euros for each
international conference whose concepts
involve Smalltalk
• 8 international conference papers in 2008
• 6 international conference papers up to
now

7. SummerTalk
• Help students work on open-source
Smalltalk projects
• 2500 euros
• Under the guidance of a mentor accredited
by ESUG

8. Smalltalk on new
platforms
• Squeak/Pharo on iPhone
• 64 bits Squeak/Pharo VM
• Thanks to John M. McIntosh

9. SmalltalkParty since
2005 in Paris

10. Sponsoring Smalltalks

11. BlockCamp Paris
Ruby&Smalltalk
November 28, 2009

12. SeasideHosting
http://www.seasidehosting.st

13. Books

17. http://book.seaside.st/

18. Smalltalk flyers
• available in Catalan, English, French,
German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese,
Vietnamese
• important if you want to promote Smalltalk
in meetings
• http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st/
seaside/pier/Smalltalk

19. 2 ESUG Conference

21. ESUG attendees
180
135
90 174
149
116
45 95 98
85 88
0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Number of attendees

22. Student Volunteers
Free entrance
Free hosting
This is really important!
access to Smalltalk
networking
young blood

23. Slides collection
• http://www.slideshare.net/esug
• Old ESUG conferences online
since 1993

24. ESUG Conference
• Industrial track
• Academic track
• SmalltalkCamp

25. New this year: 3
Tutorials
Advanced Seaside
SqueakNoS
Aida

26. Innovation Technology
Awards
• 21 submissions last year
• 1st: 500 euros, 2nd: 300 euros, 3rd : 200
euros
• Everyone and every Smalltalk can compete

27. Retrobjects (VisualWorks)
PhidgetLab (Squeak)
SqueakNOS (Squeak)
Glamour (Pharo, VisualWorks)

28. If you need help,
just ask us !