November Date?

[Mike Kelland]

Salut d'Ottawa! 

Nous avons fait un meetup Scala en Ottawa le Mardi denier et c'etait un grand succes - 3 presentations et a peut pres 30 participants. 

We ended up with talks on immutable state, a case study on a mobile app with a Scala backend and one on the best practices in Akka.  Very cool stuff, and for the first one, very successful.  No where near as established yet as the Montreal group - but we'll get there! :)

I was hoping that we could link the two groups a bit - share access to speakers as they come into town, see what works,  etc... I love your idea of sharing code via GitHub for the group.  For our event, we had Jamie Allen, Typesafe consultant, trainer and general Akka/Scala guru, show up and do a talk which was really cool.  

I don't know if you were planning an event for November yet, but Jamie will be in Montreal for the training that Alex mentioned (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4210301124) on Nov 5-6 and could probably attend something on the evening of Nov 5th if people are up for it.  He's a really interesting guy with a lot of experience with Scala and Akka.

Also - if anyone is interested in the FTTS course (it's a good complement to the coursera course), please let me know - we're trying to fill the course right now and we can offer a good rate.  

Mike

[felix]

Hi Mike, we haven't planned the next Scala meetup date yet, but if Jamie can present Akka to the group, I think this would be awesome.

I also think it would be great to share ideas and speakers when possible. The Scala community is still small in Montreal and it is not easy to gather speakers for regular meetups and I guess you might have the same issue.

So if Jamie is willing to present to the Scala group in Montreal on Nov 5th, I'll try to organize something.

Felix

[Jean-Francois Im]

Definitely up for an event on Nov 5!

[Mike Kelland]

Cool - I'll check to ensue Jamie is good to go and let you know.  

[Félix GV]

I'm up for November 5th...!

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Félix

[serge bureau]

I would really like an Akka presentation, I hope it comes to fruition

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Mike Kelland <mi...@tindr.ca> wrote:

[sami.d...@gmail.com]

Also up for an event on nov 5th

[Mike Kelland]

Ok - confirmed! 

Jamie, Alex and myself will be there on the 5th.  Is there a standard location and start time? 

Thanks,

Mike

[Félix-Étienne Trépanier]

Awesome!

Wajam (4115 St-Laurent #200) will be hosting! It usually starts around 6pm.

I will post more details soon!

Felix

[Bruno Navert]

Salut Félix!

I'll be there too. I've been using Scala for a bit now - introduced it to my team at Morgan Stanley - but have no experience with Akka yet, so I'm interested to know more about it, and meet other Scala developers.

I might bring a few people from work if there's room at Wajam

-Bruno

[Mike Kelland]

Felix - what's the capacity at Wajam?  Do you mind if I spread the word a bit? 

Thanks,

Mike

On Friday, 26 October 2012 10:20:19 UTC-4, felix wrote:

[sami.d...@gmail.com]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Mike Kelland <mi...@tindr.ca> wrote:

Felix - what's the capacity at Wajam?  Do you mind if I spread the word a bit? 

I think he doesn't mind, go spread the word !

[Félix-Étienne Trépanier]

The lounge is large, and I don't mind people being close to one another or standing, but I will send an EventBrite invite very soon with a limited number of places. Between 20-25 people should fit without having to stack anyone.

[felix]

Please use this link to register. Happy registering!

http://scala-montreal.eventbrite.ca/

Mike, your team doesn't have to register :)

[Pascal Deschenes]

Hi all,

I've been a lurker in this group for about a year. Now would be a good time to show up! 

Count me in:-)

Pascal

[felix]

Hi all, all tickets are gone for next Monday, if you have registered on Eventbrite but can't attend anymore, can you ping me?

Looking forward for Monday!

Thanks,

Felix

[felix]

I've added the link to Jamie's slide on the scala-montreal web site...

http://scala-montreal.org/