Erlang Sydney Meetup for April, 2nd

[Tim McGilchrist]

Hi All,

Erlang Sydney is on again in 2 weeks time: Tuesday 2nd April, 6:00pm for a start around 6:30.

If you'd like to speak or have ideas about talks you'd like to hear, please add them on the wiki https://github.com/erlsyd/erlsyd/wiki

Starting off for the year it'd be great to have a mix of talks, especially Erlang fundamentals, since a number of people turn up and aren't familar with the language. We don't have any fixed times for talk so if you only want to speak for 5 mins on something or if you have something longer please speak. Remember the whole group runs on people getting up and speaking, so please get involved.

I'd also like to raise the idea of having a hack night so people can get their hands dirty with some Erlang. Would anyone be interested in doing that?

Cheers,

Tim

[OJ Reeves]

I would love to be involved in something like this, but it might be hard for me to get there :)

With the hack night, what kind of stuff were you thinking of hacking? I have a few ideas for beginners that could be fun?

Cheers.

OJ

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[Tim McGilchrist]

You could always just come down to Sydney for a few days, especially now that you're doing remote work.

For the hack night I was mostly thinking of fundamental Erlang things like pattern matching, message passing and threads, nothing too heavy into OTP or a specific library, unless people really want to do that. What were your ideas OJ?

There was some interest in doing web applications with Erlang using Cowboy or ChicagoBoss, that might be another option. Or setting up an OTP application from scratch, maybe picking out an example from the Learn You Some Erlang book and build it with rebar.

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Tim McGilchrist

@lambda_foo

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[Tim McGilchrist]

Is replying to your own reply considered bad form?

I've added 2 topics to the [wiki](https://github.com/erlsyd/erlsyd/wiki)

• Building a web application with ChicagoBoss and Ember.js
• Erlang, Type Systems and You.

I'm planning on doing a quick hands on presentation for the ChicagoBoss idea for the next meetup.

I'll show the code for a small Ember.js app I'm building and go through how you can use Erlang/OTP to drive the backend rather than use something like Ruby, Node.js or Python.

It'd be great if we could get a couple more talks.

Cheers,

Tim

[Tim McGilchrist]

That'd be super. Thanks Robin.

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Tim McGilchrist

@lambda_foo

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On 26/03/2013, at 8:00 AM, Robin Hilliard <ro...@rocketboots.com.au> wrote:

On 26/03/2013, at 7:44 AM, Tim McGilchrist <timm...@gmail.com> wrote:

It'd be great if we could get a couple more talks.

Cheers,
Tim

I can quickly walk through another of the code war solutions I wrote if that helps.

Robin

[OJ Reeves]

Sorry, I'm not ignoring you!

I'll pencil some things down in the next few days and send them through. I think keeping it "real" and doing things with the web is a good idea. OTP stuff from scratch is also great, but I reckon it's good to play with building things from the ground up first so that people understand exactly what OTP gives you.

More to come.

OJ