May I suggest a simple modification? It would be better to have a sprint before the conference. and does not mean that a group of coder can code in a room during boring conference talks Then I do not see why we would need a projector.
Stef On Aug 24, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Hernan Wilkinson wrote: > Hi Alexander > no problem, I'll ask for a room for that. > > Hernan. > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Alexandre Bergel > <[email protected]> wrote: > Andres, > > I would like to organize a Pharo Sprint. Do you think a room may be > provided with: enough chair, a white board, a video projector. > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > > 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: > > > > [email protected] > > > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
