planning a Bay Area functional programming conference on Oct 1

[Matt Harrington]

 

Hi all,

 

Great to see some activity on the BayFP list.

 

I'm considering organizing a Bay Area functional programming conference in October.  There are lots of people in the area who've made the conceptual leap to functional programming, and putting them all together in one place could yield interesting results.  We probably all have a lot in common.

 

I've already reached out to the local Clojure, Scala, F#, and Erlang communities.  I haven't had a chance to meet with anyone from the Haskell or LISP/Scheme groups, but given the enthusiasm I've seen so far I'm guessing many of them would be on board. 

 

Brainstorming about ideas...  Has anone seen Andrei Alexandrescu's talk "Three Cool Things About D"?  If not, it's worth seeing.  I think it's also a good format to follow.  We could have a series of talks along the same lines, e.g. "Three Cool Things about Clojure", or even "Three Cool Things about Category Theory".  There'd also be breakout rooms for more specific talks, and time for an informal unconference kind of thing.  I've been kicking around this format for a while, and I think things jelled over lunch with a friend who confirmed that the format makes sense.

 

In short, it would be like ICFP & CUFP, but with less of an academic feel.

 

If you're interested in speaking, or have any comments/ideas, please let me know either on or off the list.

 

The cost would be kept low, around $25, and it'd be either in San Francisco or Mountain View.  Initially, I was thinking of Saturday, September 24, but coincidentally that's the same day as CUFP in Tokyo.  So, the tentative date is Saturday, October 1.

 

Matt Harrington

 

[satish viswanatham]

sounds like a great idea. I would be interested in attending this.

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[Sean Perry]

+1

[ConsideredOpinion]

+1 Mountain View

[Larrytheliquid]

+1

I'd be happy to give an Agda/dependent types related talk.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Matt Harrington <mbh....@gmail.com> wrote:

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