Dear all,
@plexus and I are delighted to invite you to the second Clojure European Summer Time on Tuesday, Aug 4th 2020. We’ve got two exciting talks lined up. We will stream them at 19:00 CEST and follow them up with a panel discussion with the speakers. The talks will be also available to watch at your leisure from around noon CEST that day.
The #cestmeetup channel on Clojurians Slack will form our “hallway track”, where you can go to hang out, discuss the talks, or just banter. You are of course also welcome to provide comments on the live stream.
This event as well as ClojureVerse itself both fall under the Berlin Code of Conduct. By participating you agree to have read the Code of Conduct, and to abide by it. By participating in the Clojurians Slack channel you agree to abide by the Clojurians Code of Conduct.
Links and details will follow. Please keep an eye on this thread (also via an RSS feed) or follow the #cestmeetup on Twitter. Please message Arne or Jan if you would like to present at a future CEST.
From Nand to Dinner - A Midsummer Night’s Talk
Summer vacation is the perfect time to travel, experience different places and learn about the world. With the current state of the world however, let’s stay home. Let’s still travel though, to the land of electronics, experience logic gates and learn about dinner.
Lisa is a freelance creative technologist focusing on how individuals and society interact with technology.
There and back again: From objects to functions to data
Many people come to functional programming with years of experience in an object-oriented language. The learning process can be quite confusing. They’re used to solving their problems with objects and classes, but we tell them that they should embrace the concept of functions as values. As soon as they have internalised this idea, we ask them to unlearn this habit. Only by describing behaviour as data you will become a true functional programmer. In this talk, I’m going to walk you through the confusing journey of FP novices and explain the reasoning behind this volte-face. Why would you want to describe your behaviour as data when you’ve just discovered the elegance of higher-order functions?
Daniel Westheide is a senior consultant at INNOQ and co-organizer of ScalaBridge Berlin, the Berlin chapter of the ScalaBridge organization. He has been using Scala, Clojure, and other functional programming languages since 2011. He has also written a few Scala books for beginners, the latest one being “Scala from Scratch: Understanding”.
Breakout rooms
We want to emulate the experience you get at a meetup or conference, where you are able to drop in and out of multiple conversations by going from group to group. To that end we encourage people to set up their own rooms on Jitsi, Whereby, Mozilla Hubs, Zoom, etc.
Simply paste the link in Slack and wait for people to join. You can use threaded messages in Slack to let others know who’s currently in your room, what’s being discussed, if the room is full, etc.
Note that the person who set up the call (the host) is responsible for moderating it. The Code of Conduct of the event applies.