meetings.edn

{:links {"Andrew Luetgers" "https://twitter.com/lootsauce"
         "Nick Bauman" "https://github.com/nickbauman/"
         "Benoît Fleury" "https://twitter.com/benfle"
         "Ben Peirce" "http://bpeirce.me"
         "Benjamin Ebby" "http://twitter.com/akpanydre"
         "Brian Maddy" "http://twitter.com/bmaddy"
         "Dan Callahan" "http://dancallahan.info/"
         "Karl Kroening" "https://twitter.com/karlkroening"
         "Jason Saxon" "http://twitter.com/to_json"
         "Joel Knighton" "https://twitter.com/joelknighton"
         "Peter Schwarz" "https://twitter.com/peterjschwarz"
         "Elena Machkasova" "http://personal.morris.umn.edu/~elenam/"
         "Tom Marble" "http://twitter.com/tmarble"
         "Ted Naleid" "https://twitter.com/tednaleid"
         "Selah Ben-Haim" "https://twitter.com/selahb"
         "Scott Fritchie" "https://twitter.com/slfritchie"
         "Nate Young" "https://twitter.com/natesbrain"
         "Michael Nygard" "https://twitter.com/mtnygard"
         "mailing list" "https://groups.google.com/group/clojuremn/boxsubscribe"
         "SICP" "https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/"
         }

 :meetings [{:date "2016-02-10"
             :desc [(link "Ted Cushman") " will talk about the merits of schemas."]}
            {:date "2015-12-09 17:30 CST"
             :desc [[:strong "Special Event at DevJam Studios"]
                    [:br]
                    [:em "Note the different time and place."]
                    [:br]
                    "Instead of our normal meeting, we'll be attending a talk by "
                    (link "Michael Nygard")
                    " (author of " [:em "Release It"]" and a Cognitect employee). He will be giving a talk titled \"Maneuverable Architecture\". We're encouraging everyone to attend that instead."
                    [:br]
                    [:ul.text-left
                     [:li "When: " "5:30pm on December 9th"]
                     [:li "Where: " (link "DevJam Studios" "http://devjam.com/2015/10/29/jam-session-with-mike-nygard/")]
                     [:li "Please RSVP here: " (link "Maneuverable Architecture" "http://devjam.com/2015/10/29/jam-session-with-mike-nygard/")]]]
             }
            {:date "2015-11-11"
             :desc [(link "Selah Ben-Haim") " will talk about using Instaparse and Datomic to calculate data lineage from SQL scripts."]
             :attendee-count 9}
            {:date "2015-10-14"
             :desc [(link "Joel Knighton") " will talk about datalog."]
             :attendee-count 13}
            {:date "2015-09-09"
             :desc [(link "Karl Kroening") " will talk about realtime signal processing in Clojure with LLVM."]
             :attendee-count 14}
            {:date "2015-08-12"
             :desc [(link "Ted Cushman") " will talk about declarative data transformations."]
             :attendee-count 13}
            {:date "2015-07-08"
             :desc [(link "Elena Machkasova") " and her students (Henry Fellows, Thomas Hagen, Ryan McArthur, and Sean Stockholm) will talk about beginner-friendly Clojure error messages and the super-" (link "fun mode" "https://github.com/quil/quil/wiki/Functional-mode-(fun-mode)") " of Quil."]
             :attendee-count 17}
            {:date "2015-06-10"
             :desc [[:strong "Beginner's night"]
                    [:br]
                    (link "Peter Schwarz") " will go give an introduction to using figwheel to get started with ClojureScript (Clojure that compiles to JavaScript)"]
             :attendee-count 18}
            {:date "2015-05-13"
             :desc [(link "Benoît Fleury") ": Software design and the ideas discussed in "
                    (link "this paper" "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361623") "."]
             :attendee-count 15}
            {:date "2015-04-08"
             :desc [[:strong (link "Office Hours" "http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours")]
                    [:br]
                    "We're trying something new this month. We'll be having an 'office hours' style meeting as "
                    (link "Factual describes here" "http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours")
                    ". Everyone will get a nametag and put their name on the board as a teacher, student, or both. Whether you want to come teach someone about the new library you just discovered or you need help completing your first "
                    (link "4Clojure" "http://www.4clojure.com/")
                    " problem, there should be plenty of people to chat with!"]
             :attendee-count 14}
            {:date "2015-03-11"
             :desc [[:strong "Beginner's night"]
                    [:br]
                    (link "Brian Maddy") " will go over some of the basic concurrency tools in Clojure"]
             :attendee-count 24}
            {:date "2015-02-11"
             :desc [(link "Jason Saxon") ": L-systems, Turtle graphics, and Quil"]
             :attendee-count 22
             }
            {:date "2014-12-10"
             :desc [(link "Peter Schwarz") ": Using Clojure on Arduino"
                    [:br]
                    (link "Tom Marble") " and " (link "Ted Cushman") ": Clojure Conj recap"]
             :attendee-count 17}
            {:date "2014-11-12"
             :desc [[:strong "Beginner's night"]
                    [:br]
                    "Steven Kallstrom will show how to build a card game in Clojure. He'll cover basic leiningen, managing state with refs/atoms, manipulating collections, sets, combinatorics, and I/O."]
             :attendee-count 20}
            {:date "2014-10-08"
             :desc [(link "Greg Allen") ": Using Clojure to get started with Data Mining in the Kaggle 'Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster' competition"]
             :attendee-count 14}
            {:date "2014-09-10"
             :desc [[:strong "Beginner's night"]
                    [:br]
                    "Be sure to bring a laptop when you come. We'll go over Clojure's composite data types (vectors, lists, maps, sets), help people get up and running, and apply some of the things we learn."]
             :attendee-count 10
             }
            {:date "2014-08-13"
             :desc [(link "Steven Kallstrom") ": " (link "Instaparse" "https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse")]
             }
            {:date "2014-07-09"
             :desc [[:strong "Beginner's night"]
                    [:br]
                    (link "Elena Machkasova")
                    " and some of her students (Henry Fellows, Aaron Lemmon, and Emma Sax) are coming down from the University of Minnesota, Morris. They will be showing LightTable settings and testing with the expectations library (including automated testing with autoexpect)."
                    [:br]
                    "After that we'll have a discussion about the first few sections in "
                    (link "SICP")]
             :attendee-count 26
             }
            {:date "2014-06-11"
             :desc [(link "Michael Nygard") ": Simulation testing"]
             :attendee-count 20
             }
            {:date "2014-05-07"
             :desc [[:strong "Beginner's night"]
                    [:br]
                    "Be sure to bring a laptop when you come. In preparation for Minneapolis' ClojureBridge, we'll go through as much of the ClojureBridge curriculum as we can. If you can get the "
                    (link "installation section" "https://github.com/ClojureBridge/curriculum/blob/master/outline/setup.md" )
                    " done before you come, you'll be able to get much further. If not, we'll be happy to help."]
             :attendee-count 14
             }
            {:date "2014-04-02"
             :desc [(link "Brian Maddy") ": Functional Lenses ("
                    (link "presentation" "https://bmaddy-public.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/clojure.mn/lenses.pdf" )
                    ", "
                    (link "code" "http://bmaddy-public.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/clojure.mn/lenses_demo.clj")
                    ")"
                    [:br]
                    (link "Tom Marble") ": ClojureBridge update"]
             :attendee-count 16
             }
            {:date "2014-03-05"
             :desc [[:strong "Beginner's night"]
                    [:br]
                    "Be sure to bring a laptop when you come. We'll go over some basic Clojure functions, help people get up and running, and apply some of the things we learn. "
                    "We'll cover differnt topics than last time. This month: "
                    [:ul.text-left
                     [:li (link "Greg Allen") " talking about Java interop"]
                     [:li (link "Tom Marble") " showing how to build web applications in Clojure"]]]
             :attendee-count 11
            }
            {:date "2014-02-05 17:30 CST"
             :desc [[:strong "Special Event at DevJam Studios"]
                    [:br]
                    [:em "Note the different time and place."]
                    [:br]
                    "Instead of our normal meeting, the DevJam guys have invited us to attend a talk by "
                    (link "Michael Nygard")
                    ". He will be giving a talk titled \"Immutable Values: Benefits of Value-Based Programming.\" We're encouraging everyone to attend that instead."
                    [:br]
                    [:ul.text-left
                     [:li "When: " "5:30pm on February 5th"]
                     [:li "Where: " (link "DevJam Studios" "http://devjam.com/venue/devjamstudios-2/")]
                     [:li "Please register here: " (link "Immutable Values: Benefits of Value-Based Programming" "http://devjam.com/event/jam-session-february-5-2014-immutable-values-benefits-value-based-programming/")]]]
            }
            {:date "2013-12-04"
             :desc [(link "Brian Maddy") " and " (link "Tom Marble") ": Report from Clojure Conj"
                    [:br]
                    (link "Tom Marble") ": " (link "Bringing ClojureBridge to Minnesota" "http://info9.net/wiki/tmarble/posts/ClojureBridge_Minnesota/")]
             :attendee-count 6}
            {:date "2013-11-06"
             :desc [[:strong "Beginner's night"]
                    [:br]
                    "Be sure to bring a laptop when you come. We'll go over some basic Clojure functions, help people get up and running, and apply some of the things we learn."]
             :attendee-count 26}
            {:date "2013-10-02"
             :desc [(link "Danny Gratzer") ": a talk about Haskell"
                    [:br]
                    (link "Aaron Babcock") ": Clojure on AppEngine"]
             :attendee-count 8}
            {:date "2013-09-04"
             :desc ["Hack Fest"]
             :attendee-count 5}
            {:date "2013-08-07"
             :desc [(link "Dan Callahan") " showed us some quick tips for better website security"]
             :attendee-count 4}
            {:date "2013-07-03"
             :desc ["Hack Fest"]
             :attendee-count 11}

            {:date "2013-06-05"
             :desc [(link "Elena Machkasova") " from the University of Minnesota Morris presented the work she and " (link "Stephen Adams") " have been doing to transition the university's introductory computer science class from Racket to Clojure."]
             :attendee-count 20}

            {:date "2013-05-01"
             :desc [(link "Greg Allen") " taught us about testing in Clojure, "
                    (link "Andrew Luetgers") " showed us his "
                    (link "mr-hiccup" "https://github.com/andrewluetgers/mr-hiccup") " project he's been working on, "
                    (link "Tom Marble") " gave us an update on "
                    (link "Nongrata" "https://github.com/tmarble/nongrata") ", and "
                    (link "Brian Maddy") " gave a quick preview of the schelling visualization app he's working on."]
             :attendee-count 19}

            {:date "2013-04-03"
             :desc ["Hack Fest"]
             :attendee-count 12}

            {:date "2013-03-06"
             :desc [(link "Erik Rantapaa") " talked about type classes and Haskell and "
      (link "Brian Maddy") " gave a demo of a little " (link "game he made" "http://conbat.herokuapp.com/") " (" (link "source" "https://github.com/bmaddy/conbat") ")."]
             :attendee-count 12}

            {:date "2013-02-06"
             :desc [(link "Benjamin Ebby") " showed us some of the ZeroMQ stuff he's been playing with recently and Daniel showed us the features of a ray-tracer he wrote in Clojure."]
             :attendee-count 5}

            {:date "2012-12-05"
             :desc [(link "Greg Allen") " showed us a " (link "distance measuring project" "https://github.com/gdallen/walk") " he's been working on, then we had various lightening talks."]}

            {:date "2012-11-07"
             :desc ["Hack Fest - Multiple small groups worked on all sorts of things including "
                    (link "Nongrata" "https://github.com/tmarble/nongrata") ", "
                    (link "Light Table" "http://www.lighttable.com/") ", "
                    (link "Clojure Koans" "http://clojurekoans.com/") ", "
                    (link "Conduit" "https://github.com/jduey/conduit") ", "
                    "and discussing Erlang's QuickCheck."]
             :attendee-count 13}

            {:date "2012-10-03"
             :desc ["Hack Fest - We went through the " (link "Datomic tutorial" "http://docs.datomic.com/tutorial.html")]}

            {:date "2012-09-05"
             :desc [(link "Nate Young") " - using clojure at "
                    (link "Revelytix" "http://www.revelytix.com/")
                    [:br]
                    (link "Brian Maddy") " - "
                    (link "Tetris" "https://github.com/bmaddy/tetris")
                    " with an "
                    (link "FRP" "http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.93.8928")
                    " structure"]}

            {:date "2012-08-01"
             :desc [(link "Ben Peirce") " - "(link "Immutant" "http://immutant.org/")
                    [:br]
                    (link "Scott Fritchie") " - Creating systems with thousands or millions of actors "]}

            {:date "2012-06-06"
             :desc [(link "Nick Bauman")
                    " presented his ClojureScript work on the "
                    (link "Nongrata" "https://github.com/tmarble/nongrata")
                    " project.  We then held lightning talks with "
                    (link "Dan Callahan")
                    " discussing "
                    (link "Persona" "http://identity.mozilla.com/post/18038609895/introducing-mozilla-persona")
                    ", "
                    (link "Tom Marble")
                    " demoing his "
                    (link "Raspberry Pi" "http://www.raspberrypi.org/")
                    " serving the Nongrata website, and "
                    (link "Brian Maddy")
                    " talking about "
                    (link "core.logic" "https://github.com/clojure/core.logic")
                    "."]}

            {:date "2012-05-02"
             :desc [(link "Dan Callahan")
                    " talked about "
                    (link "Mozilla Persona" "http://identity.mozilla.com/post/18038609895/introducing-mozilla-persona")
                    " and the group hacked on a "
                    (link "Noir implementation of that technology" "https://github.com/tmarble/nongrata")
                    "."]}

            {:date "2012-04-04"
             :desc [(link "Ted Naleid")
                    " gave his "
                    (link "review of Clojure/West 2012" "http://tednaleid.github.com/showoff-clojurewest/#1")
                    " and "
                    (link "Ben Peirce")
                    " talked about "
                    (link "some random Clojure news" "/presentations/latest-news/latest-news.html")
                    "."]}

            {:date "2012-03-07"
             :desc [(link "Nick Bauman")
                    " talked about "
                    (link "redit-s-expression" "http://tinyurl.com/redis-s-expression")
                    " and "
                    (link "Brian Maddy")
                    " talked about "
                    (link "Pallet" "https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B593N-xk-VfFVTJtNndQZk1UbFNRc1MzXzFxR21pZw/edit")
                    "."]}

            {:date "2012-02-01"
             :desc [(link "Tom Marble")
                    " shared his experiences "
                    (link "developing a web application using Noir" "/presentations/noir-is-the-new-black.org")
                    " and "
                    (link "Benjamin Ebby")
                    " talked about "
                    (link "using JRuby and Rake with Clojure" "http://outcastgeek.com/blog/build-your-polyglot-app-with-jruby-and-rake.html")
                    "."]}

            {:date "2011-12-07"
             :desc [(link "Brian Maddy") " and " (link "Ben Peirce") " gave a review of "
                    (link "Clojure/conj 2011" "http://clojure-conj.org/")
                    " and "
                    (link "Dan Callahan")
                    " talked about "
                    (link "Go" "http://golang.org/")
                    "'s approach to concurrency."]}

            {:date "2011-11-02"
             :desc [(link "Brian Maddy") " talked about "
                    (link "Functional Relational Programming" "https://docs.google.com/a/brianmaddy.com/presentation/pub?id=1kXvRBksA7DtDpie3JOU7vY2VH23yLFpUVFc98BYLKnk&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.p")
                    " and " (link "Ben Peirce") " talked about some tools for command line Clojure programs."]}

            {:date "2011-10-05"
             :desc [(link "Greg Allen") " talked about Clojure's "
                    (link "java interop" "https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AVDE9VMKvEjHZGdrZzJwcjJfMTEyYzZ6NmJwZHE&hl=en_US")
                    " and " (link "Ben Peirce") " talked about the relational algebra as its used in Clojure.sets."]}

            {:date "2011-09-07"
             :desc [(link "Ben Peirce") " talked about "
                    (link "Clojure sequence implementations" "http://bpeirce.me/clojure-sequence-implementations.html")
                    " and " (link "Brian Maddy") " talked about "
                    (link "ClojureScript" "https://docs.google.com/a/brianmaddy.com/present/view?id=dwqzvn5_14f7nm7ngk")
                    "."]}

            {:date "2011-08-10"
             :desc [(link "Ben Peirce") " walked through how he used "
                    (link "Ring" "https://github.com/mmcgrana/ring")
                    " and "
                    (link "Hiccup" "https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup")
                    " to make "
                    (link "this site" "https://github.com/bpeirce/clojure.mn")
                    ".  "
                    (link "Brian Maddy") " showed how he used "
                    (link "Enlive" "https://github.com/cgrand/enlive")
                    " for one of his sites."]}

            {:date "2011-07-13"
             :desc ["We discussed "
                    (link "Clojure/conj 2011" "http://clojure-conj.org")
                    ", compared the JVM to the CLR, and surveyed the NoSQL landscape."]}]}