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! About Us

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!!Board
The ESUG Board as elected 2010
-President: *Stéphane Ducasse>http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/* (Inria)
-Treasurer: *Luc Fabresse>http://car.mines-douai.fr/luc* (EMD)
-*Damien Cassou>http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st/* (Univ. Lille 1)
-*Jordi Delgado>http://smalltalk.cat/* (Politecnica Catalunya)
-*Marcus Denker>http://www.marcusdenker.de/* (Inria)
-*Alain Plantec>http://www.lisyc.univ-brest.fr/pages_perso/plantec* (UBO)
-*Serge Stinckwich>http://doesnotunderstand.org/* (IRD)


!!Contact ESUG

-You can reach the ESUG board at *board@esug.org*


!!Legal Information
ESUG is a french-law association, and hence it is not subject to the VAT. It does not have a siret number but is registered under the number W751167780.
- *CreditCard>http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/About/CreditCard?_s=SWBep7RcK9EHbR2m&_k=-xlOIQmbHmdZ7XyB&_n&22*
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!!Our Goals
ESUG is a non-profit association that gathers all European users of all dialects of Smalltalk. It was registered in 1991 under French status "Association de Loi 1901".

Its goals are to:
-promote use of the Smalltalk programming language
-promote communication between Smalltalk users through meetings, periodic newsletter, software exchange, electronic mail, etc., and by organizing events like the Smalltalk Yearly Conference
-help and link local Smalltalk users groups
-help the creation of local Smalltalk users groups
-identify Smalltalk users and their needs and represent them towards discussions with vendors.

ESUG users usually meets at the yearly ESUG users conference and Object-Oriented Conferences, such as ECOOP and SPLASH. Board members can be reached through e-mail at *esug-info@esug.org* (which broadcasts to all board members) for information.

!! Mailinglist
For mailings to members and everybody who subscribed directly to the mailing list you can send a mail to *esug-list@lists.esug.org*. To Join the mailing list, go to *https://lists.esug.org/list/esug-list.lists.esug.org*. Currently more than 500 Smalltalkers all over Europe and beyond!.

!! ESUG on Social Media

- Twitter: *https://x.com/esugsmalltalk*
- Page on *Facebook>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565428452512*
- Page on *LinkedIn>https://www.linkedin.com/company/104963294*