Dear members of CHOOSE, We are pleased to invite you to the CHOOSE Forum to be held on December 14, 2012 at the University of Bern. This year's topic is "Models vs Services" The full day event will feature five talks and a panel. The speakers are: - Jean Bézivin - Should we resurrect software engineering? - Cesare Pautasso - Executable Modeling of Software Architectures - Carl Worms & Ksenia Wahler - Services and Models in a large IT system - Lukas Renggli - Practical Models in Practice - Markus Völter - Modeling and Programming - isn't it all the same? The day also features the CHOOSE General Assembly, including reports from the President and the Treasurer, and elections for the CHOOSE Executive Board. More details together with the registration form can be found on the official webpage: http://choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2012 We hope to see many of you at the Forum! Kind regards, Michele Lanza, Tudor Girba, Mircea Lungu, Thomas Fritz (Organizers)