The Pharo core team organises a Pharo Conference hosted at INRIA Lille Nord Europe located at Villeneuve D'ascq (close to Lille).

Pharo is an open-source Smalltalk http://www.pharo-project.org

The goals of the conference is to bring companies, developers and users together.

You are invited to propose a talk on 

       - your business with pharo

       - a technical presentation of a framework or solution you built with pharo

       - experience reports

Please contact stephane.ducasse@inria.fr and marcus.denker@inria.fr for possible presentations. 

To find the conference location go to http://www.inria.fr/en/centre/lille/overview/locations

By metro it will take you 20 min from the center of Lille: Stop at 4 cantons and follow the map.

There is an hotel on the campus but we suggest you to take an hotel in Lille and not Villeneuve D'ascq.

Here are some cheap possible hotels: le floreal, hotel du moulin d'or, Agora Hotel, Saint Maurice, Hotel de la paix.

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