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

  • SeasideHosting (www.seasidehosting.st, no longer online)

Projects

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

  • Squeak VM on iPhone - John McIntosh
  • Clean of the Squeak VM - John McIntosh
  • Morphic 3 project - Juan Vuletich
  • iPhone Dev - Esteban Lorenzano
  • DrGeoII Scripting Syntax extension - Hilaire Fernandes

Past SummerTalk

Each year, ESUG pays students to work on open-source Smalltalk projects during the SummerTalk program.

  • 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

We collected and managed a ressources DVD

  • Free Smalltalk DVD

Book writing

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
  • 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 -1 money for each international conference paper 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 sponsors the Smalltalks conference 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)

Universities that received the teacher packages