Functional programming meetups around the world

my fav (tho i probly won't fly over to attend):

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Functional Alcoholics of New York,

not so much about Drinking as it is about having a low-overhead, open-ended, cross-language discussion on our overlapping ...

Meetup topics:

Scala, Haskell, Clojure, Lisp & Scheme, Erlang F#

yay! two other people in utah. At this rate by 2015 I think we can schedule our first meeting. I am pretty surprised by this considering the university of utah uses "how to design programs" as their intro to CS. Maybe if they used SICP it would be different?