Hi Stephan, Sorry for came up so late with this, but I remember you asked for some ideas about what to show on FOSDEM... I was on vacations so I didn't answer at the time, but I will try something now, in case is still useful :)
I presented Smalltalk some times at non-Smalltalker audiences, last time at fossa [1], with Stef and Marcus. We presented more or less a "showcase" of available technologies present in Pharo (the usual ones. Seaside, Glamour, etc.) but I finished by playing with my examples around athens and chipmunk (the "Storm" project [2], you can see some videos at youtube, if you didn't checked yet [3]). At the end, even if it was interesting to show what technologies are available, the really interesting part for the audience was watching me playing with spheres and physics :) Why that? Well... the fact is with those examples I managed to show the better property that smalltalk has: IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK (another way to say "live environment", that I think is easier to understand for non-Smalltalkers). It was really exciting see the reaction of people when they looked me changing sphere colors, positions, quantities, etc. right in front of them, without re-compiling anything or even stoping the simulation. Remember that video of the guy doing funny stuff with javascript? well... kinda the same but with something that can be really used (the javascript stuff was just a prototype, impossible to download and play with it). So, my advice: no matter what you present, if you focus on those properties of Smalltalk, you will gain a lot of attention :) If you want to play with Storm, you will find the instructions in the smalltalkhub page, and of course I will be happy to help you. Esteban [1] http://fossa.inria.fr/ [2] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~estebanlm/Storm [3] http://www.youtube.com/user/estebanlmvideos On Jan 7, 2013, at 4:19 PM, Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]> wrote: > Rafael wrote: >> I've noticed that FOSDEM 2013 will host an Smalltalk devroom like the >> previous year. Any idea about the scheduled sessions? >> >> I'd like to see tutorials related with Pharo, Seaside, Amber, Moose, etc. > > I'm working on finalizing the schedule now. > We'll have presentation of the current state of Squeak & Pharo, > experience report and getting started with Amber, > the active filesystem, a workshop to get started with Smalltalk development, > might have BabyMock/GOOS, Oak, Altitude & Etoilé,and some more time to talk > than > last year. > > I would welcome someone showing Moose. Need to finalize the schedule > soon though. > > Cheers, > Stephan Eggermont > >
