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Nice @thomas I'm guessing 🍾 was involved?
Morning all
Hi all. Saying hello after lurking for a week or two. I'm in Edinburgh, working remotely with Python and slowly picking up clojure for fun.
Are there any clojure groups in edinburgh @accounts_clojurians?
@rickmoynihan not any more. had one but it wrapped up a few months ago
yeah, it was disappointing. I've considered heading further afield to attend some of the interesting meetups. being remote makes that fairly easy.
Yeah that’s a shame, it can be hard to sustain groups for niche languages… Perhaps there are some edinburgh functional programming groups that you can crash though 😉
We had a similar issue in Manchester which led me rebranding the clojure-dojo after a few years to Lambda Lounge… Since then it’s been more active.
I seem to remember there were a few edinburgh based companies using clojure, though I can’t remember who they were…
A general FP group would be plenty interesting. Turns out there's an EdLambda, but it's pretty quite these days too.
@accounts_clojurians - I’m over near Aberfoyle (West of Stirling) and would be interested in trying to get something together. Was going to start looking to put together a Clojure Bridge in the New Year as well…
@maleghast that sounds great!
I want to see if I can find enough people and the relevant interest from advocacy groups to get us delegates for a first Clojure Bridge event during next year, so I’ll start with monthly meet-ups if we can get even a handful of interested people together.
@maleghast: Aberfoyle is lovely, hadn’t realised you were over that way…
@rickmoynihan - We’re up at the top of Strathard, above Aberfoyle, in a little place called Inversnaid actually. It’s paradise up here, and no mistake.
Yeah it really is
I mean it’s a pain to get anywhere - takes me a good 50 mins to an hour to get to Stirling and about an hour and a quarter into Glasgow if the traffic is good and over an hour and a half to Edinburgh, but it’s TOTALLY worth it. 🙂
Yeah, as someone who also lives out in the sticks, I agree 🙂
Whereabouts are you @rickmoynihan?
Small village in west yorkshire called Marsden at the top of a dirty great hill with views in the peak district national park.
It’s basically either Mordor or the Shire depending on the weather 🙂
Probably most famous as Royston Vasey… The location of the local shop for local people is a few hundred meters from our house.
@guy I think a monthly distributed "meetup" in our timezone would be a great idea
Agreed. That would be a great idea actually.
I know there's one online Clojure group, but it's based in the US and generally meetup around 2am our time which I'm sure doesn't work for most people
I'd be willing to try orchestrate an online meetup via something like Google hangouts or http://appear.in if there was enough interest
I was thinking like a topic for discussion with maybe a guest leading the initial session with some demo etc and then break out for general discussion or "pair/group programming"
An online dojo group style might work well to?
We could even take an open source project (maybe something maintained by a group based in the UK) and have a talk/demo of it and then for the latter part, attempt to tackle an open ticket on the project as a group? This way we'd be learning whilst giving back to the Clojure community
would be up for discussions/talks/demos… never really got on too well with group hackathon/katas personally
Fair point
well that might just be me 🙂 I wouldn’t want to discourage others from doing it 🙂
I suppose those that don't want to do a group Hackathon style thing don't need to do the last part?
my main issue with them in meetups is that most the time is spent setting people up etc…
That would need some careful thought, I agree
Could try use something like Klipse in browser
I suppose it would largely depend on what the project/ticket was
@rickmoynihan have you seen the LoG visit to Royston that was just on?
No… it was ok, but I was never a big fan tbh 🙂
@rickmoynihan too much like real life? I couldn't watch the UK version of The Office for the same reason when I worked at Equifax
Yeah, the truth hurts I guess 😬
Welcome @accounts_clojurians! I'm a clojurist in Edinburgh (well Dalkeith actually). Maybe we could pimp clojure at a few of the functional meetups and instigate an install fest with beer and pizza.
https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C064BA6G2/p1513865813000116 clojars might be good for this