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FISL 10 is 25 to 28 June 2009

I'm in the process right now of preparing a "call for assistance" for my role as the Smalltalk MiniConf Chair for FISL 2009.  I'll be looking for sponsors, assistants, and potential speakers for the 3-day 12-hours-per-day track, as well as the four talks we also get on the main track.  This event will be attended by at least 8K people (probably closer to 10K), in Porto Alegre Brasil from 25 to 28 June, 2009.


Consider this post the pre-pre-announcement. :)

2 comments Tags: brasil, brazil, smalltalk, fisl, fisl 10

Smalltalk at FISL: now and forever!

I gave my Seaside intro talk earlier today at FISL 9.0 (pictures being uploaded to my flickr account already).  The talk was well-attended (about 200 or so in the audience), including some Rails folks.  I was surprised though when I asked how many people had coded in Smalltalk before, and got about 25% of the hands raised!  Most of them were also web-app programmers.


I had only 35 minutes for my presentation (even shorter than I had planned), so I just barely got to the part where I alter the WACounter class to divide by 0 to show fixing things that break. But the questions were very good, and everyone stayed to the end.  Afterward, I continued the discussion with a smaller group for another 20 minutes in the hallway, and have had a half dozen people stop me in the hallways in the following two hours, so the interest is high and the news spreading.

But the biggest news is that based on the preliminary interest in Seaside because of my talk, the FISL conference organizers offered an entire room for next years conference (the full three days with 12 hours per day), as well as four or five main-track hour talks, if I could help organize the subconference details!  This is quite a gift, because it will mean that we can expose the 7000 conference attendees to a variety of Smalltalk programs, without paying for rooms or badging or promotion.  The conference asked if I could get some corporate sponsors on board, and I immediately fired off email to James at Cincom and Monty at GemStone, and thank goodness they read email on Saturday, because they offered their support quickly. Of course, we have many details to work out, but everyone agrees that we will move forward!

We also have a great opportunity to overlap a bit with the OLPC folks. They also have a room for the entire conference, and I can see some "Squeak on the XO" talks overlapping between the tracks.

So, mark your calendars to be in Porto Alegre Brazil at end of June 2009!  We're gonna be smalltalking!

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Accepted to talk about Seaside at FISL 2008

I forgot to blog this earlier, but my proposal to give a talk about Seaside at this year's FISL has been accepted. I believe this will accomplish two things.  First, I'll have a good reason to concentrate on writing what will be the beginning of my Seaside training materials.  Second, the FISL-attending free software and open source community will hear about yet another emerging technology that will help them write rich web applications easier.


And, heck, any excuse to spend a couple of weeks in Brasil isn't all that bad.

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