Lambda Jam 2013 – An Architect's View

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How do you find out about this sort of thing before it happens? I regularly read LtU and did not see this there... I happened to be in Chicago last weekend and would have gone.

It's hard. Somehow I knew about it and did not go. Anyway, I happened to see it because I follow Alex Miller on twitter (@puredanger) & some others on Twitter. In addition to Lambda Jam, Alex organizes (at least) Strange Loop and Clojure/(West, East).

It's surprising just how many conferences are put on. I learned about some more from the Lisp in Summer Projects page[1].

TL;DR: dig into the community(ies) of conferences you're interested in. You'll still miss some.

[1] http://lispinsummerprojects.org/

I think the two biggest routes (which probably overlap a lot) are being into Clojure or being a Strangeloop (the best conference) attendee.

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