One of our members passed this along. Under the circumstances I think
that it is appropriate to pass this on to our membership and let
folks do what is in their hearts to do.


------
Friday Night at 7:00 p.m. step out your door, stop your car, or step
out
of your establishment and light a candle.   We will show the world
that
Americans are strong and united together against terrorism.  Please
pass
this to everyone on your e-mail list.  We need to reach everyone
across
the
United States quickly.

The message:  WE STAND UNITED - WE WILL NOT TOLERATE TERRORISM!

Thank you.
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Our fall series will start on October 4th rather than on September
20th due to speaker availability and religious holiday conflicts.
Please join us on:

Date:         October 4, 2001
Time:         6:30 to 8:30
Location:     IBM Building , Madison and 57th in Manhattan

Agenda:
6:30 to 7:00pm
Open House

7:00 to 8:30pm
Cincom's Web Tool Kit and Forward

James Robertson, Product Manager for Cincom Smalltalk will start the
presentation with a discussion of the 5i.4 release as well as plans
for the 5i.5 release.

As product manager for both the VisualWorks and ObjectStudio product
lines,  Mr. Robertson is involved in all aspects of the business,
including pricing, licensing terms, product evolution, and partner
relations.

Alan Knight will follow with an in depth discussion of the "Web Tool
Kit" which among other things provides a compliant implementaton of
Sun's JSP and Servlet specs but which exhibits some clear advantages
with respects to debugging and ease of use. The Web Tool Kit also
allows for an ASP based approach to web development.

Alan Knight works at Cincom Systems on VisualWorks web development
and is the lead architect on the soon to be released Web Tool Kit.
Prior to that he was with The Object People for many years, most
recently as lead architect for the TOPLink family of object-
relational mapping products. He was instrumental in creating a
version of TOPLink to do container-managed persistence in the
WebLogic server, and was a member of the expert group for the EJB 2.0
specification. He has been a columnist for The Smalltalk Report, and
has spoken at many conferences, including Smalltalk Solutions,
OOPSLA, the European Smalltalk User Group's Summer School, the
Borland/Inprise User Conference, and Java One. Alan is also an editor
of
Smalltalk Chronicles (http://www.smalltalkchronicles.net), is leads
the
open-source project "GLORP" for doing object-relational mapping
(http://www.glorp.org), and is co-author of the book "Mastering
ENVY/Developer" (Cambridge University Press).

For further information on Cincom Smalltalk please visit:

www.cincom.com/smalltalk

thanks

Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

The New York City Smalltalk Developer's Group will hold its next
meeting on Thursday July 19th, 2001 at the IBM building in Manhattan
at 57th and Madison.

Agenda

Open House
6:30 to 7:00pm

VisualWorks & the Magellan GPS315
7:00 pm to 8pm
Speakeer: Bruce Badger

Abstract:

Bruce has developed a VisualWorks driver to the NMEA interface. The
first part of the presentation will discuss some of the technical
issues surrounding the implementation. This will be followed by a demo
on a notebook hooked up to a Magellan GPS315 receiver.

For more info on the Magellan GPS315 receiver go to:

http://www.magellan.com.au/magellan/pages/gps315.htm


thanks

Charles A. Monteiro
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

Post a follow-up to this message

Message 2 in thread
From: Bruce Badger (bruce_badger@...)
Subject: Re: NYC ST: VisualWorks & the Magellan GPS315
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Date: 2001-07-16 12:54:51 PST



Here's a link to the GPS 315 page on the US website:

	 http://www.magellangps.com/products/gps315.htm

The New York City Smalltalk Developer's Group will hold its next
meeting on Thursday July 19th, 2001 at the IBM building in Manhattan
at 57th and Madison.

Agenda

Open House
6:30 to 7:00pm

VisualWorks & the Magellan GPS315
7:00 pm to 8pm
Speakeer: Bruce Badger

Abstract:

Bruce has developed a VisualWorks driver to the NMEA interface. The
first part of the presentation will discuss some of the technical
issues surrounding the implementation. This will be followed by a demo
on a notebook hooked up to a Magellan GPS315 receiver.

For more info on the Magellan GPS315 receiver go to:

http://www.magellan.com.au/magellan/pages/gps315.htm


thanks

Charles A. Monteiro
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

This link was sent in by one of our members. Check it out and vote
for Smalltalk. Pass it on to like-minded colleagues.

http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/rc2001/index.html

thanks

Charles

Members:

A new on-line magazine dedicated to Squeak and apparently developed
in Squeak itself is now available. The creator and editor of the site
during his stay in NYC was an active member of NYC Smalltalk
Developer's Group and on a number of occasions assisted by presenting
on different subject matters related to Squeak. A 25% discount has
been offered to our members please see below for more details.

thanks

Charles

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Would you please let the members of the NYSTUG know about the new e-
zine
I
> > am publishing called Squeak News? It is 100% relevant for
Smalltalkers.
The
> > url for the e-zine is http://www.squeaknews.com. If any of the
members
of
> > the group would like to subscribe ask them to choose author
discount and
> > enter the special code NY-STUG-021 to get the 25% discount.

Reminder:

The next meeting of the NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will be held
next Thursday June 21st , 2001 at the IBM building on Madison and 57th
in Manhattan. The general meeting will start at 6:45pm and the main
presentation will start at 7pm and close at 8pm.

Topic:

Distributed Pluggable Services with OpenTalk

Speaker:

Charles A. Monteiro

Abstract:

This presentation will demonstrate a simple but flexible pluggable
services framework which leverages off VisualWorks distributed
computing framework OpenTalk. Said framework will allow for:

Registration of a service with a specified service interface

Binding of a service provider to a specified service with ensuring of
interface adherence by the service provider

capability of dynamic discovery and bind of services

capability of dynamically switching the service provider of a given
service


One of the demo examples will illustrate the notion of distributed MVC
i.e. exposing the model in a MVC triad as a distributed service which
can then be accessed by other V-C pairs on different nodes on the
network. This is accomplished without "hacking" the standard widget
setup in VW.

The presentation will also consist of the use of two networked
notebooks in order to make things more fun.

This meeting is open to the general public.


thanks

Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

The next meeting of the NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will be held
next Thursday June 21st , 2001 at the IBM building on Madison and 57th
in Manhattan. The general meeting will start at 6:45pm and the main
presentation will start at 7pm and close at 8pm.

Topic:

Distributed Pluggable Services with OpenTalk

Speaker:

Charles A. Monteiro

Abstract:

This presentation will demonstrate a simple but flexible pluggable
services framework which leverages off VisualWorks distributed
computing framework OpenTalk. Said framework will allow for:

Registration of a service with a specified service interface

Binding of a service provider to a specified service with ensuring of
interface adherence by the service provider

capability of dynamic discovery and bind of services

capability of dynamically switching the service provider of a given
service


One of the demo examples will illustrate the notion of distributed MVC
i.e. exposing the model in a MVC triad as a distributed service which
can then be accessed by other V-C pairs on different nodes on the
network. This is accomplished without "hacking" the standard widget
setup in VW.

The presentation will also consist of the use of two networked
notebooks in order to make things more fun.

This meeting is open to the general public.


thanks

Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

The NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will hold its next meeting on
thursday May
17th at the IBM Building on Madison and 57th.

Agenda

6:30 to 7:00

Review of potential presentation topics


7:00 - 7:30    Product Directions, Tim Bedard VisualAge Smalltalk
Product
Manager

7:30 - 8:30    Web Services with VisualAge Smalltalk, Mark Weitzel
VisualAge Smalltalk Development Team


Our meetings are opened to the general public.

thanks

Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

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Charles:

If it would be acceptable to you and the group, I would like to attend the
UG session on May 17.

Regards,
-Ted

------
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Senior Consultant, Pervasive Computing Services
IBM Global Services
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Email:    tedmc@...

The NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will hold its next meeting on
thursday May 17th at the IBM Building on Madison and 57th.

Agenda

6:30 to 7:30

Extending NamingService

Charles A. Monteiro will demonstrate extensions to NamingService
which allow for enforcement of the service "interface" during
binding, dynamic handling of the regitered service, lookup of a
service by interface and the general usefulness of a "service
registry" even if not in a distributed environment.
This is not meant to be just a "demo" but rather a means of
generating discussion on the subject of "loosely coupled
services" "service oriented architectures" etc.

7:30 to 8:30
IBM Web Services

Tim Bedard and Mark Weitzel of the IBM Smalltalk Product Team will
discuss IBM Smalltalk's implementation of Web Services as well as
discuss future product direction including the future of ENVY.


Out meetings are opened to the general public.

thanks

Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will meet this month on April 26th
instead of this upcoming Thursday due to SS2001.

Location: IBM Building , 57th and Madison

Agenda
6:30 to: 7:30

Bruce Badger and Charles A. Monteiro will share their experiences at
SS2001. We have pictures for the visually driven.

7:30 to: 8:30pm

Charles A. Monteiro will give a highlevel overview of OpenTalk
including a demo and then will begin the first part of a discussion
on Web Services starting with what is meant by a Service Oriented
Architecture and extensions to OpenTalk's NamingService .

thanks

Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will meet this month on April 26th
instead of this upcoming Thursday due to SS2001.

Location: IBM Building , 57th and Madison

Agenda
6:30 to: 7:30

Bruce Badger and Charles A. Monteiro will share their experiences at
SS2001. We have pictures for the visually driven.

7:30 to: 8:30pm

Charles A. Monteiro will give a highlevel overview of OpenTalk
including a demo and then will begin the first part of a discussion
on Web Services .

thanks

Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

The New York City Smalltalk Developer's Group will be holding its
next meeting
tentatively April 19th with a possible schedule change to April 26th.
Meetings are as always located at the IBM building in Manhattan on
Madison and
57th.

IBM will be presenting May 17th with regards to their improvements to
the VAST
and Smalltalk Server product lines as well as the future of ENVY.

6:30 to: 7:30 pm

SS 2001 Slide Show

Charles A. Monteiro with the possible assistance of Bruce Badger will
share
experiences of SS 2001 which will include pictures and a sampling of
conference
literature.

7:30 to: 8:30pm

OpenTalk

Charles A. Monteiro will review the OpenTalk Communications Protocol
including a
demo hardware permitting.

thanks

Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

Reminder: Our meeting is this Thursday.

Subject:  NYC ST: Flash & Wave / StORE & PostgreSQL

IBM Building on Madison and 57th. The meeting will be held Thursday
March 15th, 2001.

Agenda:

StORE & PostgreSQL
6:30 to: 7:30pm

Bruce Badger will give a how-to tutorial on setting up PostgreSQL and
hooking StORE to it. This is a great opportunity to ask questions on
a very viable alternative to ENVY.



7:30 to: 8:30pm
Flash & Wave

Charles A. Monteiro will demonstrate new added features to Tsunami -
an extension framework to VisualWave. New features which will be
demonstrated are:

Integration of Flash and Wave.

Multi-level sortable html table widget. Table widget is specified
using custom tags. The table is dynamically re-sortable by clicking
on column headers.

WML menu custom tag which will generate a menu hooked to actions on
the underlying application model.

Wml List custom tag which generates a wml list along with an
accompanying "select" action.

We will also discuss some caching issues in a WML context.


Any questions please send email to: charles@...

thanks

Charles A. Monteiro
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

Good news.

The user groups have been offered the corporate discounted base prize
of $674.00 at Smalltalk Solutions 2001 . The definition of membership
has been left to the respective chairman's or user group steering
committees discretion. In our case our definition of membership has
always been defined by belonging to this eGroup. In effect anybody
receiving this post regardless if they have had to move to other
parts of the country are in fact eligible for this offer.

Anybody wishing to take advantage of this offer simply needs to
mention his membership on the registration form. Membership will be
checked against our eGroup listing by one of the reps at SS 2001.

Check it out at:

www.smalltalksolutions.org

thanks

Charles

James Robertson , Product Manager of Cincom Smalltalk will attend the
meeting and be available to provide the official "word" on StORE.



In article <97utps02u08@...>, charles@... says...
>
>The NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will be holding its monthly
meeting at the
>IBM Building on Madison and 57th. The meeting will be held Thursday
March 15th,
>2001.
>
>Agenda:
>
>StORE & PostgreSQL
>6:30 to: 7:30pm
>
>Bruce Badger will give a how-to tutorial on setting up PostgreSQL
and hooking
>StORE to it. This is a great opportunity to ask questions on a very
viable
>alternative to ENVY.
>
>
>
>7:30 to: 8:30pm
>Flash & Wave
>
>Charles A. Monteiro will demonstrate new added features to Tsunami -
an
>extension framework to VisualWave. New features which will be
demonstrated are:
>
>Integration of Flash and Wave.
>
>Multi-level sortable html table widget. Table widget is specified
using custom
>tags. The table is dynamically re-sortable by clicking on column
headers.
>
>WML menu custom tag which will generate a menu hooked to actions on
the
>underlying application model.
>
>Wml List custom tag which generates a wml list along with an
accompanying
>"select" action.
>
>We will also discuss some caching issues in a WML context.
>
>
>Any questions please send email to: charles@...
>
>thanks
>
>Charles A. Monteiro
>OCIT
>Chair
>NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group
>

IBM Building on Madison and 57th. The meeting will be held Thursday
March 15th, 2001.

Agenda:

StORE & PostgreSQL
6:30 to: 7:30pm

Bruce Badger will give a how-to tutorial on setting up PostgreSQL and
hooking StORE to it. This is a great opportunity to ask questions on
a very viable alternative to ENVY.



7:30 to: 8:30pm
Flash & Wave

Charles A. Monteiro will demonstrate new added features to Tsunami -
an extension framework to VisualWave. New features which will be
demonstrated are:

Integration of Flash and Wave.

Multi-level sortable html table widget. Table widget is specified
using custom tags. The table is dynamically re-sortable by clicking
on column headers.

WML menu custom tag which will generate a menu hooked to actions on
the underlying application model.

Wml List custom tag which generates a wml list along with an
accompanying "select" action.

We will also discuss some caching issues in a WML context.


Any questions please send email to: charles@...

thanks

Charles A. Monteiro
OCIT
Chair
NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group

Sorry , something has come up. I need to run the meeting as follows:
6:30 to 7:00
Gemstone/StORE

7:00 to 8:00pm
Tsunami: Wml tags, Wave, ASP based enhancements

Please forgive the interruption and any inconvenience the last minute change
in schedule may cause.

thanks

Charles


cmonteiro@... wrote:

> Just a reminder:
>
> The NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will be holding its monthly
> meeting on Feb 15th.
>
> Location: IBM , 57th and Madison
> Time:      6:30 to: 8:30pm
>
> 6:30 to: 7:30pm
>
> Gemstone/StORE
>
> Charles Monteiro will lead an informal discussion on the possibliity
> of using Gemstone as repository for StORE with the VWNC release. For
> those not acquainted with Gemstone an initial walk-thru will be
> undertaken if needed. Also any questions on Gemstone itself can be
> addressed.
>
> 7:30 pm to: 8:30
>
> Tsunami: Wml tags, Wave, ASP based enhancements
>
> Charles Monteiro of OCIT will demonstrate new advancements to Tsunami
> an extensions framework to Wave that provides asp/ custom tag support
> for both Wml and Dhtml yet enforcing the view specificztion in a
> declarative manner. The demo will include:
>
> Dhtml based Drop down menus engaging Wave
> Engaging Wave via an action link tag
> Discussion on the importance of specifying views in a declarative
> manner
> How to provide for User Agent specific content
> Convenience tags to support :
> pre-loading of imaages
> page last modified timestamps, others
>
> Engaging Wave using tags for Wml
> Re-use of apps in Dhtml and Wml contexts
> more
> --
> Charles
> OCIT
> Chair
> NYC ST Developer's Group
>

Just a reminder:



The NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will be holding its monthly
meeting on Feb 15th.

Location: IBM , 57th and Madison
Time:      6:30 to: 8:30pm

6:30 to: 7:30pm

Gemstone/StORE

Charles Monteiro will lead an informal discussion on the possibliity
of using Gemstone as repository for StORE with the VWNC release. For
those not acquainted with Gemstone an initial walk-thru will be
undertaken if needed. Also any questions on Gemstone itself can be
addressed.

7:30 pm to: 8:30

Tsunami: Wml tags, Wave, ASP based enhancements

Charles Monteiro of OCIT will demonstrate new advancements to Tsunami
an extensions framework to Wave that provides asp/ custom tag support
for both Wml and Dhtml yet enforcing the view specificztion in a
declarative manner. The demo will include:

Dhtml based Drop down menus engaging Wave
Engaging Wave via an action link tag
Discussion on the importance of specifying views in a declarative
manner
How to provide for User Agent specific content
Convenience tags to support :
pre-loading of imaages
page last modified timestamps, others

Engaging Wave using tags for Wml
Re-use of apps in Dhtml and Wml contexts
more
--
Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC ST Developer's Group

The NYC Smalltalk Developer's Group will be holding its monthly
meeting on Feb 15th.

Location: IBM , 57th and Madison
Time:      6:30 to: 8:30pm

6:30 to: 7:30pm

Gemstone/StORE

Charles Monteiro will lead an informal discussion on the possibliity
of using Gemstone as repository for StORE with the VWNC release. For
those not acquainted with Gemstone an initial walk-thru will be
undertaken if needed. Also any questions on Gemstone itself can be
addressed.

7:30 pm to: 8:30

Tsunami: Wml tags, Wave, ASP based enhancements

Charles Monteiro of OCIT will demonstrate new advancements to Tsunami
an extensions framework to Wave that provides asp/ custom tag support
for both Wml and Dhtml yet enforcing the view specificztion in a
declarative manner. The demo will include:

Dhtml based Drop down menus engaging Wave
Engaging Wave via an action link tag
Discussion on the importance of specifying views in a declarative
manner
How to provide for User Agent specific content
Convenience tags to support :
pre-loading of imaages
page last modified timestamps, others

Engaging Wave using tags for Wml
Re-use of apps in Dhtml and Wml contexts
more
--
Charles
OCIT
Chair
NYC ST Developer's Group

Reminder: Meeting will be held this Thursday

--- In ny-stug@egroups.com, cmonteiro@k... wrote:
The next NYC Smalltalk Developer's meeting will be held Thursday
January 18
th ,  at the IBM building on Madison and 57th.

Time:          6:30 to 7:30pm  tentative
Topic:          Patterns in Othello
Presenter:  Thomas Zammikiel


Tom  will discuss his use of the Composite Pattern in his ST
rendition of the game Othello.
......................................................................
.......................................

Time:           7:30 to 8:30pm
Topic:           WaveTags Beyond JSPs
Presenter:    Charles A. Monteiro/ OCIT

I will be presenting WaveTags an extension to my ST tag framework
(TagWorks) . WaveTags comprise a set of xml based custom tags (a la
jsp
spec) which along with extensions to the VisualWave framework/IDE
allow for
the design of the user interface to a VisualWave app to be done in
standard
html editors and IDE's such as Homesite , Dreamweaver etc.  The
designer
instead of using the customary html tags for the various form
entities specifies
the appropriate custom wave tag.
for example instead of:
<input  type="text" name="customerAge" >
use:
<wave:inputField model="customerAge"  isReadOnly="true" />

The html document in essence becomes the "windowSpec".

The marriage of custom tags and a rich presentation framework such as
VisualWorks along with the robust web management functionality
provided by
VisualWave entail clear advantages over the current JSP/ EJB
technologies
available.

If anybody cares to discuss the above assertion please let us know
your
thoughts by posting to the thread started in comp.lang.smalltalk with
the same
subject line as this post and please do stop by at our meeting
January 18th if in
the NYC area.

thanks
--
Charles
OCIT
Co-Chair
NYC ST Developer's Group
--- End forwarded message ---

Jan Theodore Galkowski is attempting to form a NYSTUG-Upstate . The
applicable area in question includes: Binghamton-Syracuse-Ithaca-
Elmira, NY.

If interested please contact Jan at: disneylogic@...

The next NYC Smalltalk Developer's meeting will be held Thursday January 18
th ,  at the IBM building on Madison and 57th.

Time:          6:30 to 7:30pm  tentative
Topic:          Patterns in Othello
Presenter:  Thomas Zammikiel


Tom  will discuss some patterns used in his ST rendition of the game Othello.
................................................................................\
.............................

Time:           7:30 to 8:30pm
Topic:           WaveTags Beyond JSPs
Presenter:    Charles A. Monteiro/ OCIT

I will be presenting WaveTags an extension to my ST tag framework
(TagWorks) . WaveTags comprise a set of xml based custom tags (a la jsp
spec) which along with extensions to the VisualWave framework/IDE allow for
the design of the user interface to a VisualWave app to be done in standard
html editors and IDE's such as Homesite , Dreamweaver etc.  The designer
instead of using the customary html tags for the various form entities specifies
the appropriate custom wave tag.
for example instead of:
<input  type="text" name="customerAge" >
use:
<wave:inputField model="customerAge"  isReadOnly="true" />

The html document in essence becomes the "windowSpec".

The marriage of custom tags and a rich presentation framework such as
VisualWorks along with the robust web management functionality provided by
VisualWave entail clear advantages over the current JSP/ EJB technologies
available.

If anybody cares to discuss the above assertion please let us know your
thoughts by posting to the thread started in comp.lang.smalltalk with the same
subject line as this post and please do stop by at our meeting January 18th if
in
the NYC area.

thanks
--
Charles
OCIT
Co-Chair
NYC ST Developer's Group

It appears that I sent out the .doc file version of the announcement.  I
meant to send out the .rtf version.  Sorry.  The URL for the Web site is
www.smalltalksolutions.org.



David Hasegawa
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
The Smalltalk Practice
(312) 356-2649

It's Official: Smalltalk Solutions 2001!


The Smalltalk Solutions group is pleased to announce that Smalltalk
Solutions 2001 Conference is officially on!  We will be in Rosemont,
Illinois (Near Chicago), April 9th-11th.  We are in the process of
finalizing all arrangements and have even booked our keynote speaker…

    ¬  Dr. Alan Kay, Vice President and Disney Fellow, Walt Disney
       Imagineering, Research and Development, Inc.


Our Website is officially live and running and can be found at:

    .  www.smalltalksolutions.org <http://www.smalltalksolutions.org>.

While still under construction, here are some features you can look
forward to in the near future:
    ·  Top notch list of speakers and presenters
    ·  Lists of vendors, consultants, and other Smalltalk affiliated
       exhibitors
    ·  Updated information about Camp Smalltalk
    ·  And more…


Become a part of the BIGtalk about Smalltalk!  Plan to participate
today.  Get involved however you can.  It's time to show the world what
most of you already know:


    .  Smalltalk is not only the right choice, but the best one!

Attached is the official announcement for Smalltalk Solutions 2001.  For
those of you interested in doing a presentation, the Web site has links
to the forms for submitting proposals.




David Hasegawa
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
The Smalltalk Practice
(312) 356-2649

As a reminder our meeting for December was already held Dec. 7th.
There will be no meeting held on the 21st as would usually be the case
i.e. the 21st falling on the third Thursday of the month.

Happy Holidays.

Charles

EY is looking to staff their growing Smalltalk practice. Anybody
interested please contact:

Steven Sawyer
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Technical Recruiter
Phone: 312-356-2652
Fax: 312-356-2306
steven.sawyer@...

David Hasegawa who is spearheading the Ernst & Yound involvement in
Smalltalk Solutions 2001 has requested for input from our membership.
Please provide input on issues such as:

tutorials
workshops
demos
birds of a feather sessions

Keep in mind that the conference should also be considered as an
opportunity for Smalltalkers do discuss how we can promote Smalltalk
better i.e. Smalltalk Solutions should not just be technical in
nature.

I'll start the ball rolling by the following suggestion:

Invite at least 3 journalist from the IT trade press to come to
Smalltalk Solutions. Pay for their travel and accomodations. Create a
well thought out press kit which points out ST advantages, success
stories etc, the financial stability of players like Cincom, the
commitment of players like Ernst & Young etc. Provide them with the
press kits so that they can take them home and think. Arrange for a
guided tour at the conference and then of course let them roam freely.
Obviously, this assumes an oustanding content at the conference. Use
monies from the STIC budget. The expense is well worth it.

Any input for David should be sent to the following address:

david.x.hasegawa@...

Please take the time from your busy schedules to at least provide one
suggestion.

thanks

Charles