STIC Man

Inspired by James Robertson's efforts, Marten Feldtmann has started posting screencasts about VA Smalltalk.  They are being hosted on blip.tv, so they should be easily accessible by anyone.

ESUG 2009 in Brest, France was a great success this year - we started with my talk, "Smalltalk is Hot", wound up with Instantiations and Cincom talking about their upcoming releases, and along the way, learned about a whole lot of cool things happening in the world of Smalltalk:

• Seaside 2.9 has been renamed Seaside 3.0, and is very close to beta
• All the Smalltalk vendors will be supporting Seaside 3.0
• The ESUG Innovation Awards were filled with spectacular projects, and the winners - as usual - had great stuff.  You can watch the video of the Award Ceremony here
• All of the slides, photos, and video links will be appearing on the ESUG site

It was a great conference, and it will all happen again next year, in Barcelona, Spain.

ESUG 2009 is shaping up to be a great conference - there are a lot of great talks on tap, and the competition for the Innovation Awards looks fierce this year.  Come join us in Brest for the conference August 31 - September 4.  There 's still time to register!

I really enjoyed the Smalltalk Conference in Minneapolis, where I was invited to present STIC and to give a presentation with the title "Smalltalk: Yes, we can!"

This conference will be repeated in Cologne in Germany Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009.

I would appreciate seeing many of you there and for many more Smalltalk conferences

Georg Heeg
Executive Director
STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council

I mentioned that there would be various smaller events in the Smalltalk world in lieu of Smalltalk Solutions this year; we now have confirmation of two such events, from Cincom and Instantiations:

• Cincom Smalltalk Seminar Series: First Event in Minneapolis, MN April 29
• VA Smalltalk Summit 2009: Webcast event, April 21

This is the best way to get information from the vendors you care about most.  And don't forget - FISL (Brazil) is looking for Smalltalk speakers, and ESUG 2009 is coming up in August - they are looking for speakers now.

Dear Smalltalk Solutions Fans, dear Smalltalkers in general,

It is at this time each year when your STIC Board Members announce the dates and location for the next Smalltalk Solutions.

After many meetings where we discussed the current economy and what we’re observing with company travel and conference expenses and even conference attendance at other recent events, we have come to the decision to postpone Smalltalk Solutions for 2009. 

We have decided that better use of our energy would be to participate in events that will help to expand the Smalltalk community.  

Some events we have considered are:

• Support of existing events like ESUG
• Barcamps – a few select worldwide
• Other events     

We would like to get your feedback regarding additional events for us to consider and other ways you feel STIC can help the Smalltalk Community to grow.  We would also like to see the community start to participate more in visibility and awareness for Smalltalk either by sharing application information to be promoted on the STIC website, post speaking engagements on the STIC website or any other activities that can help to spread the word about Smalltalk.

Please email me at georg@stic.st.

Thank you.

Georg Heeg
STIC - Smalltalk Industry Council
Executive Director

There's been a fair bit of Smalltalk News since I last posted:

• Smalltalks 2008 was a resoundingly successful build on Smalltalks 2007
  
• Instantiations announced the availability of the first beta of VA 8
• Gemstone released a video showing off GLASS scaffolding
• Cincom has continued to release "Smalltalk Daily" videos
• GNU Smalltalk reached version 3.1
• All video content from StS 2008 has been posted
  
• Video content from ESUG 2008 has been being posted
• SeaBreeze, a GUI Builder for Seaside, got talked up on "Industry Misinterpretations"
  

There's also a lot of daily activity over on the Cincom blogs.  We look forward to another great year of Smalltalk!

ESUG 2008 is over, but we'll have plenty of content ready for you soon. You can visit the photo montage here.

We'll have the audio from the conference here, and the video from the conference here.