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thomas08:12:26

moin moin morning

thomas08:12:20

we just had our Christmas breakfast.... 🍾

yogidevbear09:12:30

Nice @thomas simple_smile I'm guessing 🍾 was involved?

thomas09:12:52

it was indeed... an now they are expecting us to do some work as well...

guy09:12:45

morning 😄

gareth11:12:18

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.

guy11:12:14

Awesome! Welcome 🙂

rickmoynihan12:12:48

Are there any clojure groups in edinburgh @accounts_clojurians?

gareth12:12:31

@rickmoynihan not any more. had one but it wrapped up a few months ago

guy12:12:42

ah thats a shame

guy12:12:17

I wonder if it would be possible to do a distributed meet up?

guy12:12:28

sort of goes against the idea of a meet up i guess :thinking_face:

gareth12:12:35

yeah, it was disappointing. I've considered heading further afield to attend some of the interesting meetups. being remote makes that fairly easy.

rickmoynihan12:12:02

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 😉

rickmoynihan12:12:53

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.

rickmoynihan12:12:51

I seem to remember there were a few edinburgh based companies using clojure, though I can’t remember who they were…

guy12:12:24

:thinking_face: i remember something like that too

gareth12:12:20

A general FP group would be plenty interesting. Turns out there's an EdLambda, but it's pretty quite these days too.

maleghast12:12:50

Morning All 🙂

maleghast12:12:23

@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…

gareth12:12:32

@maleghast that sounds great!

maleghast12:12:12

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.

maleghast12:12:40

I got all inspired at Clojure eXchange

rickmoynihan12:12:34

@maleghast: Aberfoyle is lovely, hadn’t realised you were over that way…

maleghast12:12:28

@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.

rickmoynihan12:12:45

Yeah it really is

maleghast12:12:34

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. 🙂

rickmoynihan12:12:07

Yeah, as someone who also lives out in the sticks, I agree 🙂

maleghast13:12:21

Whereabouts are you @rickmoynihan?

rickmoynihan13:12:43

Small village in west yorkshire called Marsden at the top of a dirty great hill with views in the peak district national park.

rickmoynihan13:12:16

It’s basically either Mordor or the Shire depending on the weather 🙂

rickmoynihan13:12:28

Probably most famous as Royston Vasey… The location of the local shop for local people is a few hundred meters from our house.

yogidevbear13:12:09

@guy I think a monthly distributed "meetup" in our timezone would be a great idea

rickmoynihan13:12:24

Agreed. That would be a great idea actually.

yogidevbear13:12:04

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

guy13:12:59

I would be interested in it as well

yogidevbear13:12:02

I'd be willing to try orchestrate an online meetup via something like Google hangouts or http://appear.in if there was enough interest

guy13:12:08

Would it be more of a show?

guy13:12:18

A host with people to talk?

guy13:12:30

Or a host with groups to make something

guy13:12:29

Or something else entirely :)

yogidevbear13:12:21

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"

yogidevbear13:12:53

An online dojo group style might work well to?

guy14:12:00

yeah for sure

yogidevbear14:12:53

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

guy14:12:19

yeah that sounds really interesting 😄

rickmoynihan14:12:21

would be up for discussions/talks/demos… never really got on too well with group hackathon/katas personally

rickmoynihan14:12:50

well that might just be me 🙂 I wouldn’t want to discourage others from doing it 🙂

yogidevbear14:12:16

I suppose those that don't want to do a group Hackathon style thing don't need to do the last part?

rickmoynihan14:12:30

my main issue with them in meetups is that most the time is spent setting people up etc…

yogidevbear14:12:52

That would need some careful thought, I agree

yogidevbear14:12:42

Could try use something like Klipse in browser

yogidevbear14:12:35

I suppose it would largely depend on what the project/ticket was

guy14:12:32

Yeah i think with a talk based one its fine

guy14:12:44

But with a group session people would have to do a little bit of prep

guy14:12:48

but that would be ok

otfrom14:12:49

I'd be up for a GMT +/-1 meetup too

otfrom14:12:12

@rickmoynihan have you seen the LoG visit to Royston that was just on?

otfrom14:12:22

makes me miss Burley in Wharfedale

rickmoynihan15:12:41

No… it was ok, but I was never a big fan tbh 🙂

otfrom15:12:37

@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

rickmoynihan15:12:27

Yeah, the truth hurts I guess 😬

otfrom15:12:54

it was like working an extra 40 hrs in a week for each ep

cddr15:12:30

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.

gareth15:12:18

thanks @cddr! that's a winner of a plan :thumbsup:

otfrom16:12:09

@cddr I'd be up for that (I'd come down from Dundee)

cddr16:12:32

Plenty of space to crash at mine if you do 🙂

maleghast16:12:37

@cddr - This is very encouraging! 🙂

maleghast16:12:55

(Sorry all, I have been out to fetch the kids from school)