[comp.lang.smalltalk] Call for Participation -- Smalltalk Report

white@scs.carleton.ca (Paul White) (04/24/91)

                          The Smalltalk Report
          An International Newsletter for Smalltalk Programmers

                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Smalltalk Report is a new international newsletter targeted towards all 
members of the Smalltalk community.  Published nine times annually, each 
issue will present articles and columns covering a wide range of topics 
with a particular focus on the practical application of Smalltalk in 
engineering and commercial environments.  Materials are written both 
for and by "Smalltalkers".

Topic areas covered include programming techniques, language issues, 
analysis and design methodologies, project management, training and education, 
class libraries, reusable design frameworks, application case studies and 
experience reports. Coverage includes all dialects of Smalltalk. 

The Smalltalk Report is targeted towards project leaders, programmers, 
software engineers, educators, researchers, and students involved in developing 
software with Smalltalk. The newsletter caters to the entire Smalltalk 
community; from beginner to expert, from programmer to manager, and from 
researcher to commercial developer.

Our objective is to support the successful wide-spread implementation and 
growth of Smalltalk as a development vehicle for object-oriented systems, 
and to disseminate the latest information and news to the Smalltalk 
community in a concise and timely fashion.

The Smalltalk Report accepts articles under the following classifications:

	Feature 
	Article 
	Series 
	Column 
	Personality Profile 
	Book Review 
	Product Review 
	Laboratory Report 

The Smalltalk Report will also feature highlights of Smalltalk Bulletin 
Board conversations, reports from Smalltalk user groups, product 
announcements and press clippings.

Suggested Submission Topics

The following is a list of suggestions for topics and is not intended to be 
exhaustive.  Overlap among topics does occur and topics are not mutually 
exclusive.  Potential contributors are encouraged to suggest alternative topics.  
Source code is encouraged and will be published subject to space limitations.

APPLICATIONS:
-	Commercial, engineering, and scientific applications 
-	Application frameworks
-	Project management
-	Vertical (application) and horizontal (system) class libraries
-	Portability issues
-	Object library management
-	Object-oriented design and analysis techniques

LANGUAGE ISSUES:
-	Inheritance
-	User interface paradigms
-	Concurrency 
-	Persistent Objects and Databases
-	Distributed Smalltalk issues
-	Performance issues
-	Typing 
-	Meta-level programming
-	Garbage collection
-	Interfacing Smalltalk with other languages
-	Interfacing Smalltalk with other applications
-	Education and training
-	Metrics

TOOLS:
-	User interface builders
-	Object editors
-	Application development tools
-	Project management tools
-	CASE tools

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
-	Rapid prototyping
-	Version management
-	Application management
-	Team organization
-	Organizing for reuse
-	Introducing Smalltalk into an organization

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
-	Teaching/Learning Smalltalk
-	Novel approaches
-	Teaching object-oriented design
-	Educating management
-	Research laboratory reports

For a copy of the Guidelines for Contributors:

The Editors:
John Pugh  and Paul White
91 Second Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
CANADA, K1S 2H4

Phone: 613-230-6897
Fax: 613-235-8256 (from Wed April 24th)

E-Mail:
Bitnet: streport@carleton.ca
CompuServe: 70524,3613

The Smalltalk Report will be published by SIGS Publications Inc; the 
publishers of the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Object Magazine,
and the C++ Report.