Connecting Bangalore Clojure Community Seamlessly

[antonyrober...@gmail.com]

Hello All,

During the last 2 meetups, we have been discussing how to get the community involved after the meetups.

This will help us to keep connected and share ideas and thoughts.

May be start with the following,

1) A page for posting the meetup events, and after the event we should be able to give a gist of the event and also link the slides that were presented.

2) All users contributing content on there personal projects and ideas.

3) External events page, we should provide information on all events about clojure in the national and international level

4) Inviting guest writers to write content

This is what I was thinking of, I am guessing we will have more inputs to this.

Could we pitch in ideas, on what you would like to see in this blog or website ?

[Steven Deobald]

For those of us who have slacked off on blr-clj meetup attendance in recent years, it may be worth looking at the suggestions made in the recent Reddit drama thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_authority/

From the thread:

"What I see happening a lot in Clojure is that people come to the language, build a library, then move on to something else and the library become abandoned. Then somebody else comes in, makes another similar library, and the cycle repeats itself. We never really get to make bigger things using this model, it's inherently limited to simple libraries a single individual can maintain."

This actually feels relevant. We've struggled at nilenso to make meaningful contributions to open source projects in the Clojure ecosystem. We've done a bit, but it never feels quite the same as contributing a patch to Rails or Tomcat did, once upon a time.

As silly (and usually ineffective) as they are, a hackathon might not be a bad way to kick off some longer-term open source work, as it at least gets the conversation started with some actual activity.

Apologies if this has already been discussed.

Steven Deobald -- ⌀ -- nilenso.com

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[Dheeraj Kumar]

Meetup.com is a popular solution that provides all these.

Also, a volunteer-run clojure workshop for non clojurians might help welcome new members to the group. 

On 09-Oct-2017 2:56 PM, "Steven Deobald" <ste...@nilenso.com> wrote:

For those of us who have slacked off on blr-clj meetup attendance in recent years, it may be worth looking at the suggestions made in the recent Reddit drama thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_authority/

From the thread:

"What I see happening a lot in Clojure is that people come to the language, build a library, then move on to something else and the library become abandoned. Then somebody else comes in, makes another similar library, and the cycle repeats itself. We never really get to make bigger things using this model, it's inherently limited to simple libraries a single individual can maintain."

This actually feels relevant. We've struggled at nilenso to make meaningful contributions to open source projects in the Clojure ecosystem. We've done a bit, but it never feels quite the same as contributing a patch to Rails or Tomcat did, once upon a time.

As silly (and usually ineffective) as they are, a hackathon might not be a bad way to kick off some longer-term open source work, as it at least gets the conversation started with some actual activity.

Apologies if this has already been discussed.

Steven Deobald -- ⌀ -- nilenso.com

On 9 October 2017 at 11:02, <antonyrobertchristopher@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello All,

During the last 2 meetups, we have been discussing how to get the community involved after the meetups.

This will help us to keep connected and share ideas and thoughts.

May be start with the following,

1) A page for posting the meetup events, and after the event we should be able to give a gist of the event and also link the slides that were presented.

2) All users contributing content on there personal projects and ideas.

3) External events page, we should provide information on all events about clojure in the national and international level

4) Inviting guest writers to write content

This is what I was thinking of, I am guessing we will have more inputs to this.

Could we pitch in ideas, on what you would like to see in this blog or website ?

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[Anuj Kumar]

Team,

Would like to add one more point.

One of the things that helps a lot is to know Clojure libraries that are in-use across Organizations for a particular task. For example, we are using omniconf for configuration, Shantanu is using keypin. If we have a common portal where we can have the top trending libraries that are in-use, it will not only help save time to pick the library but also collect the community to focus and maintain the chosen ones. It will also help prevent duplicating the effort in case we miss an existing library. The knowledge of what worked and what not w.r.t. a scenario is something very useful for the community.

Having a common portal will also help collect the talks in advance. Members can not only propose talks but also ask for topics of interest where other speakers can pitch-in. This will help us get the most requested talks delivered at next meetup. A simple UI like Hacker News to vote will help. We are using Atlassian cloud, esp. JIRA to maintain a list of talks that receive votes and top ones are delivered every Friday at our office.

Thanks,

Anuj

[Shantanu Kumar]

We have got great feedback on this thread so far, and I hope more would arrive.

May I suggest that we plan the December meetup to be a hackathon? Does that sound like a good idea? (Per first Saturday schedule, the meetup would be on 2nd of December.)

Shantanu

[Steven Deobald]

> If we have a common portal where we can have the top trending libraries that are in-use

https://github.com/clojars/clojars-web ?

Building software that requires manual input always runs the heavy risk of it going unused. Clojars already has all the statistics on library usage and perhaps the list of available libraries/tools could be coloured by semantic data? It's also a pretty nice, large community project to get involved in.

I see their build is also failing right now. ;) 

Steven Deobald -- ⌀ -- nilenso.com

[Anuj Kumar]

Thanks Steven. This is indeed a good starting point.

[Amarjeet]

Hackathons would be a good way to infuse some energy into the community.

In addition, a youtube channel to host the recorded talks of the meetup would be useful - this will aid to variety of the Clojure content. There is a dearth of content for audience of different types. Videos with their one-para descriptions would be helpful.

Also, volunteer-run workshops for Clojure beginners is a good idea, if we can think through different stages of Clojure beginners - absolute beginners to programming Vs beginners to Clojure.

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[Steven Deobald]

We would be happy to host the December 2nd hackathon at nilenso. It probably makes sense to run it into the 3rd as well for anyone who wants to stay (or come back). We have a few cotton mattresses for people to crash, and some quiet outdoor space for people to chill.

Food and drinks will be on us. :)

Other than Clojars, does anyone have a project they want to pitch (new or existing)?

Steven Deobald -- ⌀ -- nilenso.com