London Clojurians

[Bridget Hillyer]

Hi all.

I think that what the London Clojurians have done with their meetup is very inspirational. The dojo format is great and the way they have run things seems to have worked very well.

Here's a blog post about it: http://skillsmatterblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/guest-post-meet-the-london-clojurians/

Also, Zach Tellman's office hours method seems really interesting: http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours

Bridget

[Philip Potter]

Bruce has written a step-by-step guide to running the london clojure
dojo: http://otfrom.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/how-to-run-a-london-clojure-dojo-in-20ish-easy-steps/

I've been attending for three years now; it's how I first got into
Clojure. It's great to keep going back and see people of all skill
levels learn together, and to provide an environment where even
someone who has no experience at all can write some code (even if it's
just "hello world").

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[Korny Sietsma]

It's certainly inspiring out fledgling efforts in the Glasgow Clojurians group! 

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[Bruce Durling]

Korny,

Are you able to get some good venues now?

Ease of getting venues is what makes running things in London so easy.

cheers,
Bruce

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[Korny Sietsma]

Not really!  Adrian is working hard on this, but it's been tricky.  Currently we have a room in an internet-friendly cafe, which is adequate but a bit limited.  If anyone knows of an office in Glasgow which we can use (relatively) late, ideally with public wifi and easy pizza delivery - please let me or adrian...@gmail.com know!

- Korny

[Sean Corfield]

I have a friend in Glasgow who has been helping some local user groups in various tech. I'll reach out to him and see if he has any suggestions. He may not respond very quickly this week as he's busy running a web dev conference in Edinburgh... I was supposed to be speaking there (on Clojure, in fact) but just couldn't make the travel work this year ($$$).

Sean

[Adrian Mowat]

Hi,

Sorry - I'm a bit slow to pick this up :-)

We have a good venue for next week's event but going forward we have nothing concrete.

@sean - if your friend might be interested then I would love to speak to him.  Thanks!

Adrian