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[Paul Dumais]

Hi. I'm a Clojure programmer primarily and have time to work on my own ideas and projects these days. I've been feeling the need to network with other programmers and technology enthusiasts. I was wondering what groups are still active in Edmonton that might fill this role. Even a 'computer programmer' group would be nice. At the moment I see there is ENTS (ents.ca). But ideally I'd like to get together with other programmers. If nothing suits, perhaps we could try to get this group going again? Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal seem to have Clojure-specific groups going and having that language-specific focus seems ideal if there is enough interest. A more general group like this has the drawback of 'wasting people's time' as even though it's valuable to be 'polyglot' I'm typically focused on making the most of my language of choice. But it has the potential benefit of a larger user base, and getting to learn and apply functional programming concepts across languages. I'm a bit torn.

If any other Clojure programmers would like to meet up for coffee - that would be cool too!

Cheers,

Paul

[Paul Dumais]

Oh, I forgot to check the previous post... I see there is this great resource (thanks Abram!):

http://softwareprocess.es/static/EdmontonProgrammingUserGroups.html

[Abram Hindle]

On 15-06-17 10:16 AM, Paul Dumais wrote:

Hi. I'm a Clojure programmer primarily and have time to work on my own ideas and projects these days. I've been feeling the need to network with other programmers and technology enthusiasts. I was wondering what groups are still active in Edmonton that might fill this role. Even a 'computer programmer' group would be nice.

No this group is not active, but other group like Ruby, Javascript, and Python tend to be open to talks about other languages not represented by meetups.

At the moment I see there is ENTS (ents.ca). But ideally I'd like to get together with other programmers. If nothing suits, perhaps we could try to get this group going again?

If there's enough people. I don't know if there are.

Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal seem to have Clojure-specific groups going and having that language-specific focus seems ideal if there is enough interest.

Toronto Lisp users group was basically a defacto functional programming group.

A more general group like this has the drawback of 'wasting people's time' as even though it's valuable to be 'polyglot' I'm typically focused on making the most of my language of choice. But it has the potential benefit of a larger user base, and getting to learn and apply functional programming concepts across languages. I'm a bit torn.

I'm not sure there's enough support to have FP meetups TBQH. I've given functional programming talks at other groups though.

If any other Clojure programmers would like to meet up for coffee - that would be cool too!

If you want to organize a coffee-meetup OK then, I can't guarantee many clojure programmers :)

abram

Cheers,

Paul

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[Abram Hindle]

Startup Edmonton's calendar is far better now, but it doesn't cover edmug and some of the meetup.com groups.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NFwUbKn6GhprK3ctcBA7h54t8SXycOzn8Qpm8rhAZYo/edit#slide=id.g4a9c01842_097

http://startupedmonton.com/events/

Abram

On 15-06-17 10:23 AM, Paul Dumais wrote:

> Oh, I forgot to check the previous post... I see there is this great resource (thanks Abram!):
>
> http://softwareprocess.es/static/EdmontonProgrammingUserGroups.html
>
>
> On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 10:16:59 UTC-6, Paul Dumais wrote:
>

>     Hi. I'm a Clojure programmer primarily and have time to work on my own ideas and projects these days. I've been feeling the need to network with other programmers and technology enthusiasts. I was wondering what groups are still active in Edmonton that might fill this role. Even a 'computer programmer' group would be nice. At the moment I see there is ENTS (ents.ca <http://ents.ca>). But ideally I'd like to get together with other programmers. If nothing suits, perhaps we could try to get this group going again? Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal seem to have Clojure-specific groups going and having that language-specific focus seems ideal if there is enough interest. A more general group like this has the drawback of 'wasting people's time' as even though it's valuable to be 'polyglot' I'm typically focused on making the most of my language of choice. But it has the potential benefit of a larger user base, and getting to learn and apply functional programming concepts across languages. I'm a bit torn.

>
>     If any other Clojure programmers would like to meet up for coffee - that would be cool too!
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Paul
>

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