Section: Dissemination

Popularization

• Marcus Denker gave two presentations about Pharo at the open source conference FOSDEM 2014.

• Damien Cassou gave a Pharo tutorial at PLDI'14.

• RIC Day was held 23 September 2014 @ University of Lille 1, Lille, Anne Etien and Damien Pollet gave a presentation about Pharo, Moose and software maintenance.

• A Programming Dojo was organized by Christophe Demarey on Dec 1st.

• A hands-on course about Pharo for the students at Lille in November organized by Léo Perard and Stéphane Ducasse.

• Demo for industry at the Rencontres Inria-Industrie Technologies du Web, 26 Nov 2014 at EuraTechnologies - Lille.

• RMOD co-organized and participated at ESUG 2014.

• Multiple public Pharo Sprints in Lille.

• Stefan Marr gave a half-day tutorial on “Building Self-Optimizing Interpreters with Truffle or RPython” at the Software Composition Group, Universität Bern, Switzerland, December 2nd, 2014

• Stefan Marr gave an invited talk on “Building High-Performance Language Implementations with Low Effort” at Software Composition Group, Universität Bern, Switzerland, December 1st, 2014

• Stefan Marr gave an invited talk on “Zero-Overhead Metaprogramming: Using Self-Optimizing Interpreters to Remove the Runtime Cost of Reflective Programming” at the Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, November 2014

• Stefan Marr gave an invited talk “On the Way to Concurrency without Accidental Complexity” at the Institut für Systemsoftware, JKU University Linz, Austria, July 2014

• Stefan Marr gave an invited talk on “Building VMs for Language Designers” at the Software Development Team of Laurence Tratt, King’s College London, May 2014

• Stefan Marr gave a talk on “How to get a JIT Compiler for Free?” in the Smalltalk Developer Room of the FOSDEM Open Source Conference, Brussels, Belgium, February 2014