Of course we simply forgot to warmly thanks all our sponsors over all these
years.
Because their support is also part of ESUG success.
Without sponsors our actions would be much more limited.
I refrained myself to come up with a list because if I forget one it will be
worse :)
to see some of our recents sponsors:
http://www.esug.org/
http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2008/
http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2007
Stef
PS: We do errors everyday but try to learn fast
On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> Dear Smalltalkers of all dialects!
>
> In a time where we are bombarded with information and may be
> misinformed :),
> some of you may not notice that ESUG is doing a great job pushing Smalltalk,
> we thought that it is good
> to get a gentle reminder on the main actions ESUG performed in the past.
> http://www.esug.org
> Yes we have been busy promoting the language we all love. :)
>
> The board.
>
> Sponsoring of Smalltalks Conference 2009
> ===================
> 15 teachers got the travel/hosting payed to attend the
> conference
> Allessandro Warth invited talk sponsored
>
> Seaside Hosting since 2005
> ==========
> http://www.seasidehosting.st/
>
> Squeak VM support
> ============
> Squeak VM on iPhone - John McIntosh Mike Rueger
> Clean of the Squeak mac VM - John McIntosh
>
> Projects
> =====
> Morphic 30 project - Juan Vuletich
> iPhone Dev - Esteban Lorenzano
> DrGeoII Scripting Syntax extension - Hilaire Fernandes
> Glamour - Tudor Girba
>
> SummerTalk
> ========
> SqueakOpenDBX 2009
> SqueakOpenDBX 2008
> Safara 2008
> New Compiler for Squeak 2006
> RDF Framework for Smalltalk 2006
> Process based BugTracking System 2006
> ICal support in Smalltalk 2006
> SqueakBot 2006
>
> DVD
> ===
> Free Smalltalk DVD
> http://www.esug.org/Promotion/DVD
>
> Book sponsoring
> ==========
> Dynamic Web Development in Seaside by Ducasse etal. (2009)
> Squeak by Example by Black et al. (2008)
> A Mentoring Course on Smalltalk by Valloud et al. (2008)
> Fundamentals of Smalltalk Programming Technique by Valloud et
> al. (2008)
> Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk. by C. Gökel (2009)
>
> Free sent books in 2002
> •Universities that received the books:
> –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
> –Servia: Novi Sad
> –France: Douai
> –United Kingdom: Portsmouth, Plymouth
> –Belgium: Bruxelles
> –Germany: Elmshorn
> –China: Wuhan Hubei
> –United States: Santa Barbara
> •Universities that received the books + course
> –Roumania: Timisoara, Cluj Napoca, Targovista
>
> Varia
> ====
> Sponsoring of the Russian Smalltalk Server (2010)
> Bootstrap Funds for Squeak Germany e.V. 2000 Euros.
> Booth at Conferences
> Chaos Computer Club talks at 21C3 and 23C3 (ESUG payed parts,
> besides SSUG und Squeak e.V)
> Scanning some of old books
> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/Freebooks.html
> Digitizing VHS Video of Alan Kay's OOPSLA 1997 Keynote and make
> it available on Google Video
> Teaching at Barcelona (Spain)
> Teaching at Turino (Italy)
> Teaching at Bledj (Romania)
> Pharo Sprints
> Sponsoring of OSDC 2009
> http://act.osdc.fr/osdc2009fr/sponsors.html
>
> Managing money for the Squeak foundation since 2004
> ==================================
> This action stopped since ESUG is not a bank
>
> Sponsoring scientific articles
> ==================
> 6 international conference papers in 2009
> 8 international conference papers in 2008
>
> Smalltalk article in the Press
> ==================
> 6 in 2006
> 3 in 2007
> 5 in 2008
>
> ESUG Free entrance tickets
> ================
> Some in the previous years
> New this year 10 slots
>
> Student volunteer program
> =================
> 21 students got free access and hosting in 2003
> 15 students got free access and hosting in 2004
> A complete classroom of students of north acamedia got free
> access in 2004
> 12 students got free access and hosting in 2005
> 15 students got free access and hosting in 2006
> 14 students got free access and hosting in 2007
> 17 students got free access and hosting in 2008
> 18 students got free access and hosting in 2009
>
>
> Yes participating to the conference helps us to finance all these actions....
>
>
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