choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE/ Please distribute widely ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ESUG is proud to announce the second international call for its Sponsoring Program of Smalltalk books. http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html Briefly, this program offers free books and teaching material to Universities worldwide. Who can apply for this program? a- If you are already using Smalltalk as a teaching/research/development language, this program supports you to follow with your approach. b- If you are not using Smalltalk but you are teaching (or would like to teach) OOP, this program will provide you with enough material to do your starting step and support you in the future. Why should you apply? We are a big community (composed of people in universities, research labs and industries) using Smalltalk as a main development language. We are actively in contact and we would like that this community grows, with all the advantages that this action means for your universities (international contact, knowlegde sharing, access to open sources, etc.). What do you get if you apply for it? Depending on your needs, we offer two possibilities: a- Teacher Excellence Package - a package containing a relevant selection of Smalltalk books at all levels of expertise + 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) b- Teacher Immersion Package - we offer you to have the possibility to get an intensive lecture for any number of students for a week. The Teacher Immersion Package includes the Teacher Starter Package For your information, last year (2002) we issued the first call of this program and the following universities were selected and received the material at the end of November 2002: - Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany) - Universidad Tecnolo'gica Nacional (Argentina) - University of Munich (Germany) - Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) - Politehnica University Timisoara (Roumanie) - Colegio Schoenthal (Argentina) - Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium) - Universite' de Caen (France) - Universite' de Montpellier-II (France) - Universite' de Paris 8 (France) - Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Universidad de Vigo (Spain) - Universite' de Bretagne Occidentale (France) - Universite' Hassiba Ben Bouali De Chlef (Algerie) - Universidad Jaume I (Spain) - Valahia University (Roumanie) - Universitaet St. Gallen (Switzerland) - UDK-Berlin (Germany) - Czech Technical University (Czech) - Wuhan University (China) To get complete information about the program and the last year applications, have a look at: http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact us. Best Regards, ESUG Initiative Team Gabriela Arevalo (arevalo(a)iam.unibe.ch) Stephane Ducasse (ducasse(a)iam.unibe.ch) "The best way to predict the future is to invent it..." Alan Kay. Open Source Smalltalks: http://www.squeak.org, http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/smalltalk.html Free books for Universities at http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html Free Online Book at http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Prof. Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes "The best way to predict the future is to invent it..." Alan Kay. Open Source Smalltalks: http://www.squeak.org, http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/smalltalk.html Free books for Universities at http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html Free Online Book at http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html