Meetup.com group

[Nicolas Hery]

Yesterday at Benelux we mentioned the idea of creating a Meetup.com group. It could make it easier to schedule events and locations, as well as increase visibility.

We could of course create "Clojure Montreal". But given the apparently small size of the Clojure community here (for now? :D), and the fact that our conversation covered a wide variety of topics (event-sourcing, databases, other functional languages, etc.), the idea came up to create a more general "Functional Programmers Montreal" (ex: http://www.meetup.com/Functional-Progammers-Paris), or "Lambda Lounge Montreal" (ex: http://www.meetup.com/Lambda-Lounge-Utah/).

This way, we could of course speak lots of Clojure (yay!), but it would keep the door open to other interesting topics (ex: other functional programming languages, logic programming, distributed and concurrent programming, abstraction, complexity, emerging tech, etc.).

What do you guys think?

[Jeff Heon]

It sounds like a great idea!

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[Geoff Salmon]

I like the idea of a more general focus. I've created
http://www.meetup.com/Lambda-Lounge-Montreal/ to get things started.
It's possible to change the name so we're not stuck with it.

There's very little info there yet beyond things it forced me to add
when creating the group (the description and topic tags). I'm totally
open to changing anything and I can make several (4 I think?) members
into organizers who can modify the group as well. I think Jonathan was
interested in doing an event in the next several weeks. That should
probably be the first thing we add.

- Geoff

[Nicolas Hery]

Thank you Geoff, that's perfect!

Maybe add a small line in the description giving a shout-out to the original Lambda Lounge (in St Louis), since we "borrowed" their name (like the Utah group did: http://www.meetup.com/Lambda-Lounge-Utah/)?

[Jeff Heon]

I'm super glad you guys are reviving and expanding the group!

 

Thanks!