Smalltalk/Ruby BlockCamp in Paris

I'll be attending the BlockCamp the coming Saturday in Paris, a joint event between Smalltalk and Ruby. I am prepared to give 3 short presentations:

I'll be attending the BlockCamp the coming Saturday in Paris, a joint event between Smalltalk and Ruby. I am prepared to give 3 short presentations:
I am currently preparing for the International Smalltalk Conference (ESUG) in Brest, France.
There were complaints that the slides of my Magritte presentation are puzzling. That's true, but the idea is to get people listen to the talk instead of reading the slides. Luckily you can do that now even if you were not at ESUG 2008 in Amsterdam. Have a look at the video James Robertson posted on his blog.
On Tuesday I gave a 15 minutes presentation on Magritte to give a quick overview and prepare people for the following panel discussion. The slides are available to download here. James Robertson blogged about my presentation as well as the following panel discussion.
My presentation on the latest news around Seaside and how we achieve portability along its 6 supported platforms went well. Those that missed the presentation might want to check out the Seaside Presentation ESUG 2008. James Robertson posted a summary.
The Seaside core team is happy to announce the first official Seaside Sprint held in Amsterdam. The Sprint starts right after the last ESUG presentation and is basically open ended:
Seaside got a lot of attention during ESUG in Lugano. Several commercial Smalltalk vendors announced their support:
Here are the slides and the paper I presented at the research track of ESUG 2007 yesterday. The Pier award proposal presentation ended up as a demo, so no slides to share with you here.
ESUG 2007 started yesterday with Camp Smalltalk. It is a great atmosphere to program in pairs or to discuss the latest news around Smalltalk and other programming languages.