On 22 Aug 2009, at 17:46, Andres Valloud wrote:
> Argentina's third Smalltalk conference, Smalltalks 2009, will be held
> from November 19th through November 21rd at the Facultad de Ciencias
> Exactas y Naturales (FCEyN), Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).
>
> All those connected with Smalltalk, be it faculty, students,
> researchers, developers or entrepreneurs, are invited to participate,
> free of cost, as presenters and members of the audience. �The
> organization committee will announce the registration website shortly.
>
> The conference's goal is to gather both the Argentine and
> International
> Smalltalk community to get connected sharing our work and experience
> with regards to Smalltalk or related topics. �Smalltalks 2009
> presentations will be divided between the "Industry and Development"
> and
> "Research and Education" categories. �In addition, the event will
> host a
> Smalltalk programming contest. �As in other editions, well known
> personalities from the international community will attend the
> conference.
>
> The "Research and Education" category is the best match for research
> and
> education work done with Smalltalk in universities and public or
> private
> entities. �The "Industry and Development" category is suitable for
> presentations related to Smalltalk software developed by companies or
> individuals, both public and private.
>
> A list of suggested presentation topics, not exclusive, is below:
>
> * Development tools.
> * Development with prototypes.
> * Model driven development.
> * Agile practices (XP, TDD, etc).
> * Web application development.
> * Metamodeling / metaprogramming.
> * New frameworks or models.
> * Materials for education.
> * Embedded systems and robotics.
> * SOA and web services.
> * Experience reports, both development and research.
> * Commercial systems.
> * Automation and best testing practices.
> * Interoperability with other technologies.
> * Best design and architecture practices.
>
> Interested presenters should keep in mind the following deadline
> schedule.
>
> 1. �You must present a summary of the proposed presentation no later
> than Monday, October 19th, 2009. �The summary must fit on a single
> page,
> and must include a description, objective, and category of the work to
> be shown. �The submission procedure will be announced shortly.
>
> 2. �The conference's program committee will select the event's
> presentations from the proposals submitted according to the above
> procedure by Monday, October 26th. �The proposals including dynamic
> examples as opposed to just static presentations will be given
> priority.
>
> 3. �The conference schedule will be published in the conference's
> website on Wednesday, October 28th.
>
> 4. �The conference's works and presentations will be published in the
> conference's website after the conference.
>
> Those interested in the coding contest can become familiarized with it
> at the smalltalks-2009-coding-contest Google group:
>
> � �
smalltalks-2009-coding-contest@googlegroups.com
>
> The contest's goal is to have a good time solving a problem in
> Smalltalk, and win a prize while at it. �We are working hard to ensure
> everyone can participate, and we will show examples and prototypes
> that
> can be improved by the participants.
>
> For directions to FCEyN, you can go to the computer science
> department's
> web site:
>
> � �
http://dc.uba.ar
>
> Feel free to share this invitation with those who might be interested.
> If you have any questions, send us an email at
>
> � �fundacion (dot) smalltalk (at) gmail (dot) com
>
> See you at the conference!
> Smalltalks 2009 Organization Committee.
>
>
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