Long time since I wrote something in here, but I've been very busy. With Smalltalk, of course. Anyway, that does not matter. Nothing matters right now, except that, as announced in Brest past friday, the next ESUG Conference will be organized by... US!! The Smalltalk group in Barcelona!! Nothing matters because at the current level of excitement it is very difficult to pay attention to anything else.

First of all, I would like to thank Stéphane Ducasse, the ESUG board and the Brest conference organizers for such a great event. It was my first ESUG conference, but if people attending next ESUG at Barcelona enjoys the conference as much as I enjoyed the conference at Brest, I will be very, very happy.

We are a very young and strongly motivated group of Smalltalk enthusiasts, though I know that that does not compensate our lack of experience with Smalltalk. This lack of experience was clearly apparent at Brest, where I could see what Smalltalk experts are currently doing. That was amazing! Just let me mention the submissions to the Innovation Technology Awards, and the winner, Retrobjects by Gabriel Honoré. However, just seeing what we can accomplish if we keep on learning and programming gave a boost to our enthusiasm.

Of course, I am aware that the place, Barcelona, and not my/our Smalltalk merits, was what mostly determined the choice of the next ESUG event. That, and the delicious dinner we had with some of the members of the ESUG board, where I guess they realized that our proposal was not completely crazy. I thank them a lot the trust they have put in our group.

We'll be back with a small document introducing ourselves to the Smalltalk community.