Clojure/West <http://clojurewest.org>, of course, is the Clojure conference taking place in sunny [1] Portland, OR from March 18-20th. Full schedule: http://clojurewest.org/schedule Registration: http://regonline.com/clojurewest2013
The night before the conference we've rented out Ground Kontrol, an excellent pinball and arcade mecca just a couple blocks from the hotel. We've got free play on all the games from 7-9 pm as well as early registration for the conference. (If your company is interested in sponsoring drinks at the event, please let me know!) I also want to mention that Relevance is providing full day ClojureScript training on the preconference day (http://clojurewest.org/training/). On the first day of the conference, we've got two tracks in the morning with talks on domain driven design, Cascalog, the data reader, REST, abstraction, and building a PaaS. In the afternoon we've got a talk from Stuart Sierra about building large systems with Clojure and some exciting work by Paul deGrandis on leveraging specifications as data. We also have two talks that will introduce the new Pedestal project from Relevance, which I think is going to be an important part of the Clojure ecosystem. And the day will end with a keynote from Rich Hickey - I don't what he's talking about yet but I'm betting it's something you'll want to hear. :) That evening, we'll have some more casual unsessions at the conference hotel. On the second day of the conference, we are two tracks all day long. Lots of ClojureScript talks about interop with JavaScript, asset pipelines, functional reactive programming, and ClojureScript in ClojureScript. We also have talks on DSLs, PuppetDB (written in Clojure), using Clojure to track deforestation, securing web apps with Friend, core.logic and SQL, macros, compiling Clojure to native code via scheme, and monitoring systems. To top all that off, we've got a 4 hour mini conference on logic programming that night - Byrd and Friedman will be closing the night but we've also got talks by David Nolen, Nada Amin, and more. On the last day of the conference, we're double-tracked in the morning with talks on concenative Clojure, macros and monads, working with mixed Clojure/ClojureScript code bases, editing with Emacs, debugging with Ritz, and managing your infrastructure with Clojure. After lunch we've got a bunch of great lightning talks lined up, Stuart Sierra talking about his new simulation testing framework Simulant, and a closing keynote from Matthew Flatt about metaprogramming in Racket. But hey, Racket's not Clojure! Exactly - the Clojure community has never been shy about learning and incorporating great ideas from other communities and there is much to learn about extensibility from their examples. Hopefully you can find some time to explore Portland a bit as well! It's a great city with amazing food, coffee, beer, book stores, and lots more. I think it's clear from the (incomplete!) list above that Clojure/West is going to be a tremendous learning opportunity for Clojure developers. I hope you can make it! Alex Miller 1. possibly not always sunny -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
