meetup.com/The-Amsterdam-Clojure-Meetup-Group

[Beatlevic]

Oy,

Last meetup we did a little brainstorming on how we want to structure
future meetups and how we could attract more Clojure enthousiasts. We
came up with the two following points:

1) Attract people by being more visible, viral and vocal about our
meetups and give them a clear proposition.
2) Start an interesting open source project together, and have dojo
sessions during the meetups. Preferably a project people also want to
spend time on outside of the meetups.

To support the first point I have created a meetup.com profile to
coordinate our meetups and attract more people. (http://www.meetup.com/
The-Amsterdam-Clojure-Meetup-Group)
So please signup and spread the word :)

The open source project we came up with for point 2 is related to the
presentation by Stefan Richter, HackFwd (slides: http://goo.gl/4dH4)
(video: http://goo.gl/VQOe7). We think it would be cool and very
useful to build a Clojure framework for using "NoSQL-Databases And
Functional-Style JavaScript To Write Next-Generation HTML5 Apps".

Love to hear what you all think about this!

-Coen

http://BeatleTech.com

[Jeff Rose]

Sounds like a cool idea. I think the most enjoyable meetings have
been code-dojo style, and this kind of project could last many
meetings. What database are you thinking? MongoDB? Any interest in
using one of the Clojure to Javascript compilers, rather than doing
the client side stuff in JS?

[Hubert Iwaniuk]

+1 for meetup group
+1 for project idea

Cheers,
Hubert.

[Coen Stevens]

Indeed MongoDB would be a great option. If people want to play with Clojure to javascript compilers, then that would be interesting. However me personally, l like to write plain old Javascript.

-Coen

[Carlo Sciolla]

2011/1/13 Coen Stevens <beat...@gmail.com>

Indeed MongoDB would be a great option. If people want to play with Clojure to javascript compilers, then that would be interesting. However me personally, l like to write plain old Javascript.

+1 to everything :-)

I find the dojo idea really nice, and the proposed technologies are cool indeed. We also talked about putting CQRS into the picture, but I'm not really sure that making it complicated from the very beginning is a smart idea :-)

Do we want to discuss an idea for such a webapp here or should we wait to brainstorm on the next meetup?

Cheers,

c.

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[Carlo Sciolla]

Clojurians,

2011/1/13 Carlo Sciolla <carlo....@gmail.com>

Do we want to discuss an idea for such a webapp here or should we wait to brainstorm on the next meetup?

Today a colleague of mine complained about pivotaltracker[1] going paid-only.

I would say that (yet another) a web based agile project management tool could be a good idea for our Dojo's, WDYT?

Cheers,

c.

[1] http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

[Pepijn de Vos]

Or... what I'm personally interested in a lot is a headless blog. Kind of what this guy describes: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/05/upcomingTheMinimalBlogging.html Except I don't think he is into OStatus and AtomPub, which I think are the way to go.

Groeten,
Pepijn de Vos
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