Upcoming Meetup Ideas for the Boston Clojure Group.

Suggestions and discussions:

• on our mailing list
• in our channel on the Clojurians Slack

Ideas from August 11, 2016 Meetup

• "Clojure at Work": what are people using Clojure professionally
• Machine Learning with Clojure: perhaps look at https://github.com/uncomplicate/bayadera
• Typing: A broader discussion of Types and Clojure, perhaps things like tools and practices for testing, validation, pre/post conditions, dev practices, etc.
• App State / Lifecycle Management w/
  • Component https://github.com/stuartsierra/component or
  • System https://github.com/danielsz/system or
  • Mount https://github.com/tolitius/mount
• ClojureScript: getting started

Ideas from April 14, 2016 Meetup

• core.async
• React Landscape 2016: reagent, quiescent, rum, interop, om/next
• Logic Programming: core.logic, datalog, etc.
• Security
• Mobile: react native
• Types and Contracts: core.typed, plumatic/schema, :pre/:post, bmarick/structural-typing
• Testing: test.check, simulant, expectations, midje
• Distributed Computation & Stream Processing: Storm, Spark w/flambo, Hadoop w/Cascalog
• DB-related: Datomic dojo, Schema Evolution, Migrations, Migrations between SQL and NoSQL

Ideas from May 14, 2015 Meetup

• Barriers to Adoption
• open mic
• plumatic/graph
• Production Concerns
• Concurrency
• Deployment
• Caching: memoize, Redis
• ClojureScript: introduction
• Clojure internals: patch issues in public projects
• Pixie: lightweight Clojure-like lisp interpreter
• Collaborative, Real World Problem-Solving: newsletter subscription

Backlog

• Livecoding in Gorilla Repl: (literate coding / data visualization)
• Livecoding with Overtone: generate music via functional composition
• Hello World Web App: with or without frameworks like Luminus, Pedestal, or Caribu
  • maybe break into groups for different frameworks.
• core library demos: core.logic, core.async, core.matrix
• DSLs: Make a mini language with Instaparse
• Web Scraping