AW: [Caml-list] OUD2013 part of CUFP?

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am 03.04.2013 23:21:01 schrieb(en) Gabriel Scherer:
> I am also interested in participating to more developer-oriented
> conference, preferably about Free Software. I missed the "call for
> presentation" of this year FOSDEM but did consider sending something  
> there,
> and I will looking for a possibility to either talk or simply attend  
> and
> listen next year. If you (Gerd, Martin) are also interested, it would
> surely be great to have more people from the OCaml community there.

Yes, I'm interested, and Brussels is also in reach. There are also a  
couple of things I could talk about (e.g. multicore in OCaml, or  
map/reduce in OCaml).

Gerd

> 
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Gerd Stolpmann  
> <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>wrote:
> 
> > Am 03.04.2013 20:33:17 schrieb(en) Anil Madhavapeddy:
> >
> >  On 3 Apr 2013, at 11:02, Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > "Spreading the word widely" doesn't happen like that - it's the  
> core of
> >> the problem.
> >> >
> >> > In thought the goal was to raise awareness among professional  
> software
> >> developers who might consider trying some more "functional"  
> approaches to
> >> programming.
> >> > Pardon my cynicism, but this is different from a meeting whose  
> goal is
> >> to show academics that their pet language was used by that one  
> person in
> >> that big company and then pat each other on the back.
> >>
> >> Are you all in a bad mood today or something?
> >>
> >
> > Come on, that's Martin's special humor.
> >
> >
> >  That's quite the mischaracterisation of CUFP. Let me sample some  
> of the
> >> videos from the CUFP website (at http://cufp.org/videos)
> >>
> >
> > In deed, this is all interesting and encouraging, and there is no  
> question
> > that CUFP is an important event. For CUFP, I don't see any problem  
> of
> > colocating it with ICFP. For the researchers this is, as Martin  
> points out
> > in his special way, also a source of motivation. For OUD, the  
> topics are
> > different, though - it's more practical problems, questions of  
> OCaml's
> > roadmap, and generally more technical. So I'd make there a  
> difference.
> >
> > Gerd
> >
> >
> >  * Scala at Twitter
> >>  
> http://cufp.org/videos/**scaling-scala-twitter-marius-**eriksen-twitter<http://cufp.org/videos/scaling-scala-twitter-marius-eriksen-twitter>
> >> * Facebook Chat in Erlang
> >>  
> http://cufp.org/videos/**functional-programming-**facebook<http://cufp.org/videos/functional-programming-facebook>
> >> * Freebase and Metaweb in OCaml (now part of Google)
> >> http://cufp.org/videos/**functional-programming-**
> >>  
> freebase-warren-harris-metaweb<http://cufp.org/videos/functional-programming-freebase-warren-harris-metaweb>
> >> * Scheme for games development in Uncharted 3
> >>  
> http://cufp.org/videos/**functional-mzscheme-dsls-game-**development<http://cufp.org/videos/functional-mzscheme-dsls-game-development>
> >> * F# at Microsoft for biological computing
> >> http://cufp.org/videos/using-**f-prove-stabilisation-**
> >>  
> biological-networks<http://cufp.org/videos/using-f-prove-stabilisation-biological-networks>
> >> http://cufp.org/videos/f-**embracing-functional-**
> >>  
> programming-visual-studio-**2010-luke-hoban-mic<http://cufp.org/videos/f-embracing-functional-programming-visual-studio-2010-luke-hoban-mic>
> >> * Big data at Nokia using Erlang/OCaml:
> >>  
> http://cufp.org/videos/disco-**using-erlang-implement-**mapreduce<http://cufp.org/videos/disco-using-erlang-implement-mapreduce>
> >>
> >> And I haven't even mentioned our usual friends from Citrix or Jane  
> Street:
> >> *  
> http://cufp.org/videos/citrix-**haskell-xenclient<http://cufp.org/videos/citrix-haskell-xenclient>
> >> *  
> http://cufp.org/videos/jane-**street-status-report<http://cufp.org/videos/jane-street-status-report>
> >>
> >> And many more, of varying size and impact: there's been an  
> interesting
> >> evolution from the 'bedroom FP user' to large companies that use  
> it without
> >> blinking an eye.  All of this has been tracked by CUFP over the  
> years,
> >> although we unfortunately don't have videos from the earliest ones.
> >>
> >> Please do stop directing your ire at a workshop that has done its  
> best to
> >> broaden the appeal of FP for nearly a decade now, and do start  
> thinking
> >> about getting involved in the (many) open-source events that are  
> out there
> >> these days.  Anyone can propose talks at places like Strange Loop  
> and
> >> OSCON, and your travel and registration is often covered by the  
> event
> >> organisers.
> >>
> >> -anil
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