past_actions.pillar

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!! Past Actions

In a time where we are bombarded with information some of you may not have noticed that ESUG is doing a lot to push Smalltalk in Europe and beyond. The following sums up the main actions ESUG performed in the past.

!!! Seaside Hosting since 2006

During several years you could run Seaside application in SeasideHosting. ESUG sponsored it and it was made by Netstyle.ch 
- *http://www.seasidehosting.st/*

!!!Projects

ESUG *supported your projects>/project.pillar*. It can be project related to software development, teaching, conference presence, etc.

- *Squeak VM>http://isqueak.org/* on iPhone - John McIntosh
- *Clean of the Squeak VM>http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html* - John McIntosh
- *Morphic 3 project>http://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/Morphic3-201006.html* - Juan Vuletich
- iPhone Dev - Esteban Lorenzano
- *DrGeoll Scripting Syntax extension>http://community.ofset.org/index.php/DrGeo* - Hilaire Fernandes

!!! Past SummerTalk

Each year, ESUG pays students to work on open-source Smalltalk projects during the *SummerTalk program>/summerTalk.pillar*.

- *SqueakOpenDBX>http://www.squeakdbx.org/* 2009
- *SqueakOpenDBX>http://www.squeakdbx.org/* 2008
- *Safara>http://www.squeaksource.com/Safara/* 2008
- *New Compiler>http://www.squeaksource.com/NewCompiler/* for Squeak 2006
- RDF Framework for Smalltalk 2006
- Process-based BugTracking System 2006
- iCal support in Smalltalk 2006
- SqueakBot 2006


!!! DVD
We collected and managed a ressources DVD
-Free Smalltalk *DVD>/dvd.pillar*

!!! Book writing

- *Dynamic Web Development>http://book.seaside.st/* in Seaside by Ducasse etal. (2009)
- *Squeak by Example>http://squeakbyexample.org/* by Black et al. (2007)
- *A Mentoring Course on Smalltalk>http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/a-mentoring-course-on-smalltalk/3788890* by Valloud et al.
- *Fundamentals of Smalltalk Programming Technique>http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/fundamentals-of-smalltalk-programming-technique-volume-1/5299835* by Valloud et al.
- *Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk>http://www.canol.info/books/computer_programming_using_gnu_smalltalk/* by C. Gökel



!!! Book spreading

ESUG sent a lot of books for free in 2002 (Best Smalltalk patterns, Introduction of OOP in VisualWorks, Smalltalk design pattern companion, Smalltalk with style,...)

- Universities that received the packages:
- Germany: Darmstadt, Munich, Berlin
- Argentina: La Plata, Buenos Aires (3), Cordoba
- Belgium: Brussels
- France: Caen, Montpellier-II, Paris 8, Brest
- Spain: Vigo, Castellon
- Switzerland: St. Gallen
- Algeria: Chlef, Blida
- Argentina: Buenos Aires,
- Brasil: San Pablo
- Russia: Tver
- India: Hyderabad, Uttar Pradesh
- Chile: Santiago
- Italy: Cagliari, Benevento
- Czech Republic: Brno, Praha
- Serbia: Novi Sad
- France: Douai
- United Kingdom: Portsmouth, Plymouth
- Germany: Elmshorn
- China: Wuhan Hubei
- United States: Santa Barbara
- Universities that received the packages
- Roumania: Timisoara, Cluj Napoca, Targovista



!!! Miscellaneous

- Sponsoring of the Russian Smalltalk Server
- Booth at open source Conferences such as RMLL and Fosdem
- Chaos club participation
- Scanning *old books>http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html*
- Teaching at Barcelona (Spain)
- Teaching at Turino (Italy)
- Teaching at Bledj (Romania)
- Managing money for the Squeak foundation from 2004 to 2010



!!! Sponsoring scientific articles

ESUG offers *money for each international conference paper>your_publication.pillar* whose concepts involves an implementation in Smalltalk

We did a lot more but at least we recorded.
- 6 international conference papers in 2009
- 8 international conference papers in 2008



!!! Smalltalk articles in the Press

ESUG decided to offer money for each paper that gets published on Smalltalk.

-6 in 2006
-3 in 2007
-5 in 2008


!!! Student volunteer program

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.

- 15 students got free access and hosting in 2025
- 15 students got free access and hosting in 2024
- 15 students got free access and hosting in 2023
- 15 students got free access and hosting in 2022
- 24 students got free access and hosting in 2010
- 18 students got free access and hosting in 2009
- 17 students got free access and hosting in 2008
- 14 students got free access and hosting in 2007
- 15 students got free access and hosting in 2006
- 12 students got free access and hosting in 2005
- A complete classroom of students of north acamedia got free access in 2004
- 15 students got free access and hosting in 2004
- 21 students got free access and hosting in 2003


!!! Smalltalks Conference

Since 2009 ESUG sponsorsthe *Smalltalks conference>http://www.fast.org.ar/* in Argentina.

-15 teachers got the travel/hosting to attend the conference
-One invited talk sponsored


!! Free Books for Academy"

For this purpose we proposed two packages:

-Teacher Excellence Package : a package containing a relevant selection of Smalltalk books at all levels of expertise plus 30 CD's containing all the free or non-commercial Smalltalks (Squeak, VisualWorks, Gnu Smalltalk, Dolphin, Smalltalk/X, Smalltalk/MT) / plus all the freely available books / a ready-to-use lecture (400 slides / 100 pages of exercises)
-Teacher Immersion Package : we offer you to have the possibility to get an intensive lecture for any number of students over 3 or 4 days. The Teacher Immersion Package includes the Teacher Starter Package.


!!!Admissibility conditions

There no limit of country location (within Europe) to obtain the packages. The only criteria will be your willingness to learn and/or teach Smalltalk. You should write to ESUG a small description (max a page) describing your situation (include any criteria you find relevant) and what your plans are to promote Smalltalk. The package will be given to the local library of the university of the person who contacted us, but with the legal obligation not to do any business such as reselling the books to other party. Please include the library address with your announcement.


!!!Smalltalk Books

Here is the list of the books we will offer to you

-Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
-Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications
-Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia
-Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand
-Smalltalk Design Patterns Companion
-Smalltalk with Style
-On to Smalltalk
-Art and Science of Smalltalk
-Smalltalk, Objects, and Design
-Dolphin Smalltalk Companion
-Squeak by Xavier Briffault (French)

Here is the list of the Universities that received the teacher packages. Note that SmallWiki offuscates email addresses so we do not need to use tricks for email address encodings.

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!!!Algeria
!!!Département d'Électronique - Université de Blida
-Contact Information: Cherfa Yazid

!!!Faculté des Sciences et des Sciences de l’Ingénieur – Université Hassiba Ben Bouali de Chlef
-Contact Information: Mohamed Benarous

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!!!Argentina
!!Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Buenos Aires)
-Contact Information: Fernando Dodino *fcondado@yahoo.com.ar*

!!!LIFIA - Facultad de Informática de Universidad Nacional de La Plata
-Contact Information: Prof. Gustavo Rossi *gustavo@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar*
-Website: *http://www-lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar*

!!!Colegio Schonthal (Buenos Aires)
-Contact Information: Prof. Gonzalo Zabala, Coordinador de Informática Colegio Schonthal, *correo@schonthal.esc.edu.ar*
-Website: *http://www.schonthal.esc.edu.ar*, *http://www.roboliga.com.ar*

!!!University of Buenos Aires
-Contact Information: Dan Rozenfarb *drozenfa@yahoo.com.ar*

!!!Facultad Regional de Villa Maria - Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
-Contact Information: Ivano Bonamici *bonamici@infovia.com.ar* and Mario Rinaldi *ideagym@infovia.com.ar*

!!!Smalltalking (Buenos Aires)
-Contact Information: Alejandro Reimondo *alereimondo@smalltalking.net*

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!!!Belgium
!!!Vrije Universiteit Brussels
-Contact Information: Johan Brichau and Kris Gijbels *johan.brichau@vub.ac.be* , *kris.gybels@vub.ac.be*
-Website: *http://www.prog.vub.be*

!!!Université Libre de Bruxelles
-Contact Information: Roel Wuyts *Roel.Wuyts@ulb.ac.be*
-Website: *http://www.ulb.ac.be*

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!!!Brazil
!!!Instituto de Cinecias Matematicas e de Computacao - Universidade de Sao Paulo
-Contact Information: Rosana Braga *rtvb@icmc.usp.br*
-Website: *http://www.icmc.usp.br*

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!!!Chile
!!!Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación - Universidad de Chile
-Contact Information: Eric Tanter *etanter@free.fr*

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!!!China
!!!Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan Hubei)
-Contact Information: Junfeng Lee *unfeng@sohu.com*
-Website: *http://www.hust.edu.cn/english/index.html*

!!!The State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering - Wuhan Technology University
-Contact Information: Liang Peng *pliangeng@yahoo.com*
-Website: *http://www.whut.edu.cn/*

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!!!Czech Republic
!!Brno University of Technology
-Contact Information: Vladimir Janousek *janousek@fit.vutbr.cz*
-Website: *http://www.fit.vutbr.cz*

!!!Department of Information Engineering - Czech University of Agriculture in Prague
-Contact Information: Vojtech Merunka *merunka@pef.czu.cz*
-Website: *http://kii.pef.czu.cz/~merunka*

!!!Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Czech Technical University (Prague)
-Contact Information: Jan Lukes *xlukesj@fel.cvut.cz*
-Website: *http://cs.felk.cvut.cz*, http://webis.felk.cvut.cz/en/

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!!!France
!!!IUT de Caen - Université de Caen
-Contact Information: Dr. Serge Stinckwich *http://www.iutc3.unicaen.fr/serge/* *Serge.Stinckwich@info.unicaen.fr*
-Website: *http://www.iutc3.unicaen.fr/*

!!!Université de Montpellier-II
-Contact Information: Christophe Dony *dony@lirmm.fr*
-Website: *http://www.univ-montp2.fr/*

!!!Université de Paris 8
-Contact Information: Vincent Lesbros *http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~vi/* lesbros_AT_club-internet.fr
-Website: *http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/*

!!!École des Mines de Douai
-Contact Information: Dr. Noury Bouraqadi *bouraqadi@ensm-douai.fr*
-Website: *http://csl.esmn-douai.fr/noury*

!!!Université de Bretagne Occidentale
-Contact Information: Loic Lagadec *loic.lagadec@univ-brest.fr*
-Website: *http://www.univ-brest.fr/*

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!!!Germany
!!!Computer Science Department - Darmstadt University of Technology
-Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Juergen Hoffmann *hoffmann@pu.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de*
-Contact Information: Prof. Thomas Kuehne *kuehne@informatik.uni-kl.de*

!!!University of Munich
-Contact Information: Lothar Schmitz *lothar@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de*
-Website: *http://ist.unibw-muenchen.de/Research/Tools/SIC/*

!!!FH Nordakademie - Fachbereich Informatik
-Contact Informaion: Prof. Johannes Brauer *brauer@nordakademie.de*
-Website: *http://www.nordakademie.de*

!!!UDK (Berlin)
-Contact Information: Markus Gaelli gaelli@iam.unibe.ch
-Website: *http://www.udk-berlin.de*

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!!!India
!!!Department of Computer Science & Engineering - Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
-Contact Information: Chandra Sekharaiah Kanagaluru chandra_sekharaiah
-Website: *http://www.jntu.org*

!!!Department of Computer Science - Aligarh Muslim University
-Contact Information: Priti Bala pritibala2001
-Website: *http://amu.nic.net.in*


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!!!Italy
!!!Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Elettronica -Universitá di Cagliari
-Contact information: Prof. Michele Marchesi *michele@diee.unica.it*
-Website: *http://www.diee.unica.it*

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!!!Roumanie
!!Faculty for Automation and Computer Science and Engineering Department of Computers - Politehnica University (Timisoara)
-Contact Information: Tudor Girba *radum@cs.utt.ro*
-Website: *http://www.cs.utt.ro*

!!!Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca
-Contact Information: Illinca Ciuoa ilinca_ciupa
-Website: *http://www.utcluj.ro*

!!!Valahia University
-Contact Information: Bizoi Mihai *bizoi@valahia.ro*
-Website: *http://www.valahia.ro*


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!!!Russia
!!!Tver State University
-Contact Information: Dennis Schetinin *denis@tversu.ru*
-Website: *http://university.tversu.ru/*

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!!!Serbia & Montenegro
!!!Department of Mathematics and Informatics - University of Novi Sad
-Contact Information: Prof. Zoran Budimac *zjb@im.ns.ac.yu*
-Website: *http://www.im.ns.ac.yu*

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!!!Slovakia
!!!Faculty of Electrical Egnineering and Information Technology - Slovak University of Technology
-Contact Information: Viliam Solcany *solcany@dcs.elf.stuba.sk*
-Website: *http://www.dcs.elf.stuba.sk*

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!!!Spain
!!!Escuela Técnica de Informática de Gestión - Universidad de Vigo
-Contact Information: D. María Rodríguez Damián *mrdamian@uvigo.es*

!!!University Jaume I (Castellón)
-Contact Information: German Fabregat *fabregat@icc.uji.es*
-Website: *http://www.uji.es*

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!!!Switzerland
!!!University of Berne
-Contact Information: Ducasse Stephane *ducasse@iam.unibe.ch*
-Website: *http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/*

!!!Universitaet St. Gallen
-Contact Information: Mario Klesse *mario.klesse@unisg.ch*
-Website: *http://www.iwi.unisg.ch*

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!!!United Kingdom
!!!Department of Creative Techonologies - University of Portsmouth
-Contact Information: Steve Hand *Steve.Hand@port.ac.uk*
-Website: *http://www.port.ac.uk/ct*

!!!School of Computing - University of Plymouth
-Contact Information: Robert Hawley *bob@soc.plym.ac.uk*
-Website: *http://www.plymouth.ac.uk*

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!!!United States
!!!University of California
-Contact Information: Stephen Pope *stp@mat.ucsb.edu*
-Website: *http://www.mat.ucsb.edu*