Smalltalks 2017 Opening

2. Where? La Plata (city of diagonals)
 Founded by Dardo Rocha in 19
November 1882
 Pedro Benoit designed a city layout
based on a rationalist conception of
urban centers.
 The city has the shape of a square with a
central park and two main diagonal
avenues, north to south and east to west
 Small blocks of six by six blocks in
length.
 For every six blocks, there is a small park
or square.
 It is also called "la ciudad de los tilos"
(city of linden trees)

3. Mission
Promote the use of Smalltalk in all areas
regarding education, scientific research and
professional development, connecting
Argentina and the region with the
international Smalltalk community.

5. Since 2007, FAST has organized . . .

6. and then . . .

7. In March, FAST “Chaos” Office

8. In fact, we were more
Where will Smalltalks
2017 conference take
place?

9. • An emblematic university where Smalltalk was spread to
the rest of Argentina
• One of the first university teaching Object-Oriented
Programming with Smalltalk (Gustavo Rossi and Máximo
Prieto)
• Introductory Object-Oriented Programming and Master
courses are given with Smalltalk
• Because I have friends here . . . I enjoy working with them


10. Platinum Sponsors

11. Gold Sponsors

12. Silver Sponsors

13. All individual donations

14. Collaboration
• Facundo Gelatti
• Alfonsina Torres
• Alejandra de Bonis
• Mercap people
• Alejandro Fernández
• Alejandra Garrido
• Julián Grigera
• Palantir Web Design Team

15. Co-located Events
 Monday, November 6th
 Building Web Applications with Smalltalk (Workshop in
Spanish)
Juan Escalada, Julián Fischetti, Alvaro Piorno, Inés Sosa
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
 Introduction to Gemstone (Tutorial in English)
James Foster (Gemtalk Systems)
 VA Smalltalk (Workshop in English)
 Seth Berman (Instantiations)

16. Co-located Events
Tuesday, November 7th
SugarLoaf PLoP 2017
organized by Alejandra Garrido
and Federico Balaguer

17. Keynote Speakers

18. International Speakers

19. National Speakers

20. The schedule is original
 2 Keynotes
 2 Long Talks (1 hour each)
 27 Regular Talks (30 min each)
 And . . . As Hernán says “OOP and Smalltalk are not
dead”, we will be so original that our first two talks are
related to Functional Programming

21. Social Event
 Thursday 9, 21:30
 Address: 17 y 49 (or 17 Nr. 845)

22. Social Event: Trip to Tigre

23. Conference’s Language

24. Practical Issues
Regular Talks: 30 minutes !!
Twitter: #Smalltalks2017
Wi-Fi: XXX
Password:
Coffee Breaks: Just crossing
the room door
Lunch: 2 hours
T-Shirts
Restrooms: close to the lift

25. What is your motivation ?
 I joined FAST eight years ago
 My motivation was just to collaborate
with the Smalltalk community from Argentina
 How?
 Inviting Stéphane Ducasse, some of my european
colleagues (and friends) such as Luc Fabresse, Tudor
Girba, Mircea Lungu, among others, and this year my
first professor in Europe, Theo D’Hondt
 Motivating students to participate and meet people as I
learned

26. Thanks FAST!

27. Now it is time for you . . .
 Look for your motivation in the
Smalltalk Community in Argentina
 Help with ideas and some time with
FAST
 and . . . Enjoy the conference!!!