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

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>]

On 3 Apr 2013, at 06:10, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:

> Am 03.04.2013 13:22:07 schrieb(en) Anil Madhavapeddy:
>> On 3 Apr 2013, at 01:24, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Last year, OUD was part of CUFP and it worked great.  I'm wondering if
>> > it's the same this year?
>> >
>> Yes, it is part of ICFP 2013 (in Boston this year), and is being chaired by Michel Mauny this year.  The Call for Proposals hasn't gone yet out.
> 
> Too sad. OCaml not leaving the Cathedral. I liked the idea of the first couple of OUD events of keeping some distance to academic rituals.

Nothing stops you from organising your own group, inviting people, reserving a building, sorting out registration, invoicing sponsors, organising local facilities and lunch, recording the talks, and uploading them online.  ICFP's "rituals" take care of all of that for us (Sylvain did a big job before).

Your cathedral analogy also doesn't make any sense to me.  I like attending a few days in one go where I can interact with OCaml, ML, Haskell, Scheme, Erlang, and F# users at the same time, see talks from industrial users at CUFP, and enjoy hearing the excitement and wails of the emerging new languages being developed by the community.

The rotating locations also enables worldwide users to attend, instead of just European ones.  The ICFP/CUFP at Japan a few years ago represented a big jump in attendance from the Asian community.  ICFP moves across Europe, Asia and the USA, which is difficult to arrange with a single user group.

Having said that, having more local meetups is a very positive thing. Ashish and Christophe have been tracking them here: http://ocaml.org/meetings.html
Do get involved and set up your own.

-anil