Strange Loop and Emerging Languages Camp

[Alex Miller]

A few quick announcements regarding Strange Loop (http://thestrangeloop.com) and ELC:

1) The Strange Loop conference will take place Sept 24-25th in St. Louis.  Registration opens tomorrow (Thu Apr 12th at noon US Central time).  Early bird registration is $375 till May 21st.

- http://regonline.com/strangeloop2012

2) The Strange Loop CFP is open till May 11th, so please submit 20 and 50 minute talks!  If you're on this list, there is a strong likelihood that your interests are good topics for Strange Loop.  Strange Loop speakers receive admission, 3 nights of hotel, and (for full session speakers only) airfare.

- https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions-page/call-for-presentations

3) Strange Loop keynotes include: Brendan Eich (JavaScript, Mozilla), Jeff Hawkins (Numenta, Palm, Handspring), and Michael Stonebraker (VoltDB, Postgres, etc).  For more confirmed speakers, please check out the sessions page:

- https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions

4) The Emerging Languages Camp will take place on the preconference day of Strange Loop, Sunday Sept 23rd.  Alex Payne has been organizing this single-track camp for a few years at OSCON but it will be at Strange Loop for the first time this year.  We have finalized a great list of talks for ELC:

- Michael Fogus: The Reemergence of Datalog

- James Noble: Grace: an open source educational OO language

- Brian McKenna: Roy

- Jeremy Ashkenas: Symbiotic Languages: Transpiling into JavaScript

- Ostop Cherkashin: Bandicoot: code reuse for the relational model

- Jose Valim: Elixir: Modern Programming for the Erlang VM

- Stefan Karpinski: Julia: A Fast Dynamic Language for Technical Computing

- Håkan Råberg: Clever, Classless, and Free?

- David Pollak: Visi: Cultured & Distributed

- David Kendal: Plan: a new dialect of Lisp

- Evan Czaplicki: Elm: Making the Web Functional

- David Herman: Rust

You  can find full abstracts and bios here:

- https://thestrangeloop.com/preconf

ELC is an optional pre-event at Strange Loop so you must register for both Strange Loop (early bird = $375) and ELC ($150) to attend.

Hope you can make it!

Alex Miller, Alex Payne