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
Projects
ESUG supported your projects. It can be project related to software development, teaching, conference presence, etc.
Past SummerTalk
Each year, ESUG pays students to work on open-source Smalltalk projects during the SummerTalk program.
DVD
We collected and managed a ressources DVD
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 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 sponsorsthe 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)
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.
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
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Buenos Aires)
LIFIA - Facultad de Informática de Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Colegio Schonthal (Buenos Aires)
University of Buenos Aires
Facultad Regional de Villa Maria - Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Smalltalking (Buenos Aires)
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Instituto de Cinecias Matematicas e de Computacao - Universidade de Sao Paulo
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación - Universidad de Chile
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan Hubei)
The State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering - Wuhan Technology University
Brno University of Technology
Department of Information Engineering - Czech University of Agriculture in Prague
Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Czech Technical University (Prague)
IUT de Caen - Université de Caen
Université de Montpellier-II
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Computer Science Department - Darmstadt University of Technology
FH Nordakademie - Fachbereich Informatik
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
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Elettronica -Universitá di Cagliari
Faculty for Automation and Computer Science and Engineering Department of Computers - Politehnica University (Timisoara)
Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca
Department of Mathematics and Informatics - University of Novi Sad
Faculty of Electrical Egnineering and Information Technology - Slovak University of Technology
Escuela Técnica de Informática de Gestión - Universidad de Vigo
University Jaume I (Castellón)
Department of Creative Techonologies - University of Portsmouth
School of Computing - University of Plymouth