Hej!

[Ragnar Dahlén]

Hi folks,

My name is Ragnar Dahlén and I'm a swedish expat who quite recently

moved to Cambridge.

I have been tinkering with and enjoying Clojure sporadically for a few

years, mostly for hobby stuff so far, and I have been quite active in

the Stockholm Clojure User Group since its inception.

I was happy to find a user group in Cambridge, and now I'm of course

wondering what the outlook is. I have understood meetings have taken

place on tuesdays, but the activity seems a bit irregular and sporadic

(as was it in Stockholm). Is there still any activity and are there

any meetings planned?

I'd love to meet some people with intersecting interests.

Best regards,

Ragnar Dahlén

[Sam Aaron]

Hi Ragnar,

we haven't met for a while - which is largely my fault as I haven't issued a call to arms recently as my life has been turned upside down with a new baby and new house :-)

However, I think we should treat your arrival as a trigger to instigate another meeting. Our schedule has been to meet on the first Tuesday of the month which would mean next Tues the 4th of September. We've met in the Devonshire Arms recently, so unless anyone has an alternative suggestion I suggest we meet there from 7.30pm.

Sam

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[Duncan MacGregor]

There was some discussion at euroclojure about doing dojos or similar to give our events more structure and help bring people in. I was going to try and follow up on that but work, the jvmls, and life somehow got in the way.

I'm afraid I won't be there this Tuesday, as I'll be in Chicago.

[Sam Aaron]

On 28 Aug 2012, at 14:03, Duncan MacGregor <duncan.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There was some discussion at euroclojure about doing dojos or similar to give our events more structure and help bring people in. I was going to try and follow up on that but work, the jvmls, and life somehow got in the way.

I'm totally into that. We could also do some swarm coding.

Perhaps a more suitable venue would be CB2?

Sam

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[Ray Miller]

Hi,

On 28 August 2012 14:06, Sam Aaron <sama...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 28 Aug 2012, at 14:03, Duncan MacGregor <duncan.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There was some discussion at euroclojure about doing dojos or similar to give our events more structure and help bring people in. I was going to try and follow up on that but work, the jvmls, and life somehow got in the way.
>
> I'm totally into that.

Me too. I remember chatting to a few of you about this at EuroClojure,
but haven't done anything in the way of organizing. Now that the
summer holidays are over, it's a good time to get something off the
ground.

> We could also do some swarm coding.

Please explain...

> Perhaps a more suitable venue would be CB2?

It's certainly a better venue for dojo-like activities (even if the
beer is not so good).

Ray.

[Sam Aaron]

On 28 Aug 2012, at 14:16, Ray Miller <r...@1729.org.uk> wrote:

>> We could also do some swarm coding.
>
> Please explain...

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Swarm-Coding

Sam

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http://sam.aaron.name

[Ragnar Dahlén]

I have heard babies can cause a bit of a stir... :-)

I don't have any plans next tuesday, so I'd be happy to meet under any form. We haven't tried swarm coding in Stockholm yet (although that's exactly the agenda for the next meeting), but it definitely sounds interesting.

Ragnar

[Duncan MacGregor]

On 28 Aug 2012, at 14:18, Sam Aaron <sama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Swarm-Coding

That sounds a lot like the wolf pack concept some of the Smalltalk people came up with. It's pretty good fun with the right group of people.

[Ragnar Dahlén]

I have unfortunately come down with a fever today, so I'll have to miss tonight, if anybody was going... Sorry for the late reply. I hope there will be a next time!

 
Ragnar

[Ray Miller]

On 4 September 2012 16:34, Ragnar Dahlén <r.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have unfortunately come down with a fever today, so I'll have to miss
> tonight, if anybody was going...

Speaking of which, is anybody going? Did we agree a time and place?
Should we bring a laptop?

Ray.

[Sam Aaron]

On 4 Sep 2012, at 17:08, Ray Miller <r...@1729.org.uk> wrote:

> Speaking of which, is anybody going? Did we agree a time and place?
> Should we bring a laptop?
>

Tragically, I'm unable to come :-( I was really looking forward to it.

Unfortunately I've got to have an in-depth action-plan-discussion with my wife regarding my sleepless baby son now that she's had new information from the health visitors...

Hopefully you all have a great time,

Sam

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http://sam.aaron.name

[Ray Miller]

On 4 September 2012 18:12, Sam Aaron <sama...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tragically, I'm unable to come :-( I was really looking forward to it.

Hmm, looks like we're short of a quorum for tonight. Unless there's a
mad rush of "I'll be there!" messages in the next 20 minutes, I'll
give it a miss too.

Assuming there's no meeting tonight, would anyone be up for a purely
social get-together at the Devonshire Arms *next* Tuesday?

Ray.