Review of Massimo Nocentini abstract.

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-! Outliners, Roassal shapes and VM plugins.
+! Notebooks
 
 Massimo Nocentini  (massimo.nocentini@gmail.com)
 
 ""Abstract:""
-In this talk I will present some tools and variations on objects inspection, Roassal shapes and VM:
+In this talk I will present my project called "Notebooks". It shows how to document
+Smalltalk software by combining documentation text with executable Playgrounds.
+The documentation can also include interfaces to foreign languages used.
+It can be navigated and edited from within Smalltalk allowing Playgrounds to be executed immediately. 
+The full documentation can be exported as either PDF or SVG files.
+
+Technologies used are:
 - Outliners: recursive visualization of objects driven by slot descriptors.
-- VM plugins: Lua, `cairo_t`, timsort, non layered tidy trees. Moreover, VM compilation using MSYS2 on the CI.
-- `treesitter` integration and using grammars for C, Lua and SQL.
-- Notebooks: lifting the Playground to the next level.
+- Treesitter: syntax coloring for C, Lua and SQL.
 - Pango: a new Roassal shape to render text given in gmarkup format.
-- A Roassal Microdown visitor, to render documentation via Roassal.
-- Wolfram, doing symbolic mathematics.
+- A new Microdown visitor, to render documentation via Roassal.
 - Poppler: a new Roassal shape to render PDF files directly in your own image.
 
 ""Bio:""
-Massimo Nocentini
+Massimo Nocentini got his PhD in computer science at the University of Florence, Italy.
+Currently he works as freelancer using Smalltalk in his 9to5 job.
+He is interested in documentation and in the application of
+the functional approach to programming and design.