Clojurians Log v2
nyc
Thanks @daslu for organizing the meetup on Tuesday, it was a good time. I won't tag everyone but it was nice to meet you all! We were talking a bit about potentially reviving some form of regular Clojure NYC meetups. Just wanted to bring that up in that channel to gauge interest for that and see if anyone has any thoughts. That meetup was also the first time I went to a tech meetup where the context was getting food and drinks together rather than watching a talk or presentation, and I liked it. Maybe it would be cool to get something like that going occasionally. Then if at some point someone has something they'd like to present we could try to find a suitable space for that. On that note, is there anyone here that has any presentation or talk they've been itching to give in-person at a Clojure meetup? So again, just gauging interest at a high level. The path this takes probably depends a lot on how many people are interested and the types of meetups they would show up to. If you'd be interested in either of these style meetups or anything in between, please reply in 🧵!
I'd def be interested in nyc clojure meetups! I debated about pinging to join for the meetup discussed this week, but ultimately couldn't make it this time.
i'd also be happy to put together a talk at some scale to share a clojure-based dev-tools project that i've been building up! could be short or long - tho i like the idea of just getting together as well
I’m definitely interested.
I am very interested as well
Very interested!
I also have several things I could present.
I'm interested in clojure nyc meetups.
I’m in New York periodically and would enjoy a chance to connect.
When Lisp NYC was started it was just a bunch of folks having beers. Then a well-meaning eager beaver turned it into talks. The space? A church. We had to move the pulpit. All the fun was gone. I recommend conviviation over congregation. My2.
It's just a first step, but I made this google form to gauge some interest in new Clojure NYC meetups https://forms.gle/mif163V8oeq8yruE7 All questions are optional and I'll share the results here. This is probably the meetup version of yak-shaving, probably it's best to just set something up and see who comes (like Daniel did), but I'm not really a natural organizer of these kinds of things and I think this info will help me follow through with it in practice 🙂
I’d love the opportunity to meet some people here in NY. I’ve got limited time often, but would certainly make an effort to join.
Yup, and the first Clojure talk was there at that church. IIRC it was about 50/50 talk/bar back then, and that worked since everyone followed on to the bar for chatting. If everyone goes home right after the talk you miss a lot.
That was the first Clojure talk?! And I missed it! I skipped the talk in protest over the church, but remember harrassing you over the value of immutability at the pub after. Seems to have worked out! 👏