Organizing Boston "Jobs in FP" event
Ravi Nanavati
discussion at CUFP this year was the problem of recruiting functional
programmers. I noticed that it was a problem on both sides of the
divide: employers have trouble finding functional programmers and
functional programmers have trouble finding jobs they want. My
take-away was that it would be a good thing to have another "Jobs in
Functional Programming" event, like the one John Hughes organized at
Chalmers (see http://jobs-in-fp.org/ ).
As the organizer of BostonHaskell, I thought that Boston would be a
good place to do this for several reasons:
- the large population of college students in the Greater Boston area
is an interesting pool of potential recruits
- there are a surprising number of local companies that employ
functional programmers (and some of them are hiring)
- the Boston Lisp Meeting and BostonHaskell are pre-existing bridges
between the academic and commercial FP communities that a jobs event
should bring together
Many people I talked to at ICFP were interested in the idea, as were
people at the following BostonHaskell meeting. Given that, I am
planning to organize a "Jobs in Functional Programming" event in
Boston. My current plan is to schedule the event for late October or
November (with goal of getting the attention of students before they
have jobs). That being said, my vision is of an event open to both
students and experienced functional programmers (since both would find
it useful).
As a first step in organizing this Boston "Jobs in FP" event, I would
like to reach out to the people I have not had a chance to talk to
about this.
In particular, please let me know if you are interested in any of the
following:
(a) volunteering to help organize the event,
(b) recruiting functional programmers at the event or
(c) attending the event as a job-seeker,
Thank you,
- Ravi Nanavati
Rick Minerich
Are you still putting togeather a Boston functional programmers
event? We here at the F# user group in Cambridge would love to
participate.
Best Regards,
-Rick Minerich
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Amanda Laucher
still in the works. I believe the demand will be great.
Amanda
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On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Rick Minerich
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Ravi Nanavati
silence), I'm still putting together a Boston "Jobs in Functional
Programming" event. I'm hoping to make an announcement soon (once some
details are confirmed), but I'm still working through those right now.
Rick - if you (or someone else from the F# user group) is interested
in helping organize the event, please let me know and I'll copy you on
future organizational correspondence. Beyond that, if you have
suggestions for employers that might be interested in the event (and,
even better, contacts at those employers), please let me know, since
more participation from both sides of the jobs equation will make this
a more successful event.
Thanks,
- Ravi
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dysinger
interested in this event and/or meeting others in the area. I run a
team of 6 doing full-time clojure/lisp work. We are always interested
in networking & hiring.
On Nov 20 2009, 1:30 pm, Ravi Nanavati <rav...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> To update everyone (since there's been a long period of public
> silence), I'm still putting together aBoston"Jobs in Functional
> Programming" event. I'm hoping to make an announcement soon (once some
> details are confirmed), but I'm still working through those right now.
>
> Rick - if you (or someone else from the F# user group) is interested
> in helping organize the event, please let me know and I'll copy you on
> future organizational correspondence. Beyond that, if you have
> suggestions for employers that might be interested in the event (and,
> even better, contacts at those employers), please let me know, since
> more participation from both sides of the jobs equation will make this
> a more successful event.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ravi
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Rick Minerich
>
> <richard.miner...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ravi,
>
> > Are you still putting togeather aBostonfunctional programmers
> > event? We here at the F# user group in Cambridge would love to
> > participate.
>
> > Best Regards,
> > -Rick Minerich
>
> > On Sep 26, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Ravi Nanavati <rav...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> >> As many of you know, one of the issues that sparked a lively
> >> discussion at CUFP this year was the problem of recruiting functional
> >> programmers. I noticed that it was a problem on both sides of the
> >> divide: employers have trouble finding functional programmers and
> >> functional programmers have trouble finding jobs they want. My
> >> take-away was that it would be a good thing to have another "Jobs in
> >> Functional Programming" event, like the one John Hughes organized at
> >> Chalmers (seehttp://jobs-in-fp.org/).
>
> >> As the organizer of BostonHaskell, I thought thatBostonwould be a
> >> good place to do this for several reasons:
> >> - the large population of college students in the GreaterBostonarea
> >> is an interesting pool of potential recruits
> >> - there are a surprising number of local companies that employ
> >> functional programmers (and some of them are hiring)
> >> - theBostonLisp Meeting and BostonHaskell are pre-existing bridges
> >> between the academic and commercial FP communities that a jobs event
> >> should bring together
>
> >> Many people I talked to at ICFP were interested in the idea, as were
> >> people at the following BostonHaskell meeting. Given that, I am
> >> planning to organize a "Jobs in Functional Programming" event in
> >>Boston. My current plan is to schedule the event for late October or
> >> November (with goal of getting the attention of students before they
> >> have jobs). That being said, my vision is of an event open to both
> >> students and experienced functional programmers (since both would find
> >> it useful).
>
> >> As a first step in organizing thisBoston"Jobs in FP" event, I would
> >> like to reach out to the people I have not had a chance to talk to
> >> about this.
>
> >> In particular, please let me know if you are interested in any of the
> >> following:
> >> (a) volunteering to help organize the event,
> >> (b) recruiting functional programmers at the event or
> >> (c) attending the event as a job-seeker,
>
> >> Thank you,
>
> >> - Ravi Nanavati
>
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