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11 March 2010: The first Wroclaw Erlang User Group Meeting (Wroclaw, Poland)

Serdecznie zapraszamy wszystkich zainteresowanych na pierwsze spotkanie Wroclawskiej Grupy Uzytkownikow Erlanga. Podczas spotkania bedzie mozna wysluchac dwoch wykładow – Michal Slaski zaprezentuje “Wprowadzenie do Erlanga” a Michal Ptaszek w wykladzie '”NKtalk case study” opowie o pracy nad komunikatorem internetowym Naszej Klasy. Spotkanie poprowadzi zalozyciel Wroclawskiej EUG – Fabian Krol.

Spotkanie bedzie mialo miejsce w czwartek, 11. marca 2010, w sali 119 (Kameralna Wschodnia) na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Rozpoczecie spotkania planowane jest na godzine 18:15. Kazdy wyklad bedzie trwal 45 minut, po czym bedzie czas na zadawanie pytan. Po prezentacji przeniesiemy sie do jednego z klubow studenckich, by kontynuowac dyskusje w mniej formalnej atmosferze.

Aby uczestniczyc w tym bezplatnym spotkaniu, nalezy dokonac rejestracji on-line . Rejestracja umozliwi nam lepsze przygotowanie miejsca na przybycie okreslonej liczby osob. Aby dokonac rejestracji wystarczy kliknac tutaj:

Zapraszamy

Abstrakt: "Wprowadzenie do Erlanga" - Michal Slaski
Erlang jest funkcjonalnym jezykiem programowania, ktory bardzo dobrze nadaje sie m.in. do tworzenia aplikacji wykorzystujących możliwości nowoczesnych procesorów wielordzeniowych. Ponadto Erlang coraz częściej wykorzystywany jest do budowania systemów rozproszonych,
które skalują się na popularnych w ostatnim czasie chmurach obliczeniowych. W trakcie wykładu opowiemy o cechach szczególnych Erlanga i przykładach użycia w serwisach takich jak GitHub czy Facebook.

Abstrakt: "NKtalk case study" - Michał Ptaszek
W połowie stycznia 2010 Nasza Klasa uruchomiła swój komunikator internetowy o nazwie NKtalk. W trakcie wykładu opowiemy o niektórych wyzwaniach, jakie staly przed zespołem programistów tworzących nową usługę. Wyjaśnimy dlaczego Erlang jest jedną z technologii wybranych do realizacji projektu. Opowiemy o sposobie komunikacji wewnątrz NKtalk, o XMPP oraz o kwestiach związanych z wykorzystaniem XMPP w aplikacjach webowych.

11 March 2010: Erlang User Group Meeting at QCon London 2010 (London,UK)

Join us at the Erlang User Group Meeting at QCon London 2010! The meeting will be held on March 11, 18.30 - 20:30 in Rutherford, The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE.

That's an excellent opportunity to interact with Francesco Cesarini, Ulf Wiger, Justin Sheehy and Joe Armstrong! Come along learn, listen, debate, shape, join in, share experiences, exchange ideas and network.

Francesco Cesarini presents "Erlang community around the world"
Ulf Wiger talks about "Erlang in the Clouds"
Justin Sheehy will present "Introduction to RIAK" &
Joe Armstrong talks about "Erlang Libraries"

Everyone is welcome (even if you do not participate in QCon London 2010). In order to attend this free event, you just have to register here.

Don't miss out four Erlang talks during one evening!

12 March 2010: QCON London 2010 (London, UK)

The fourth annual London enterprise software development conference - QCON 2010 - is back. The event is designed for team leads, architects and project management. It gathers Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, Erlang and architecture communities. QCON 2010 will be held in London from 8th till 12th March 2010.

Erlang Solutions Ltd. will be present at QCON 2010. On Friday, 12th March 2010 Ulf Wiger (our CTO) will be hosting the Concurrency Challenge track. He will also give an introductory talk The Concurrency Challenge at 10:20 and a presentation on Death by accidental complexity at 4:30 pm.

Abstract The Concurrency Challenge track
By now "The free lunch" ended more than five years ago; server core counts are ranging from 8 to 864, and yet the concurrency revolution has still to occur: concurrent programming is not yet mainstream. As in-process concurrency is gaining importance three methodologies are competing for programmer adoption: classic locks, transactional memory and share-nothing actors. This track aims to push this revolution forward by giving an overview of techniques and methodologies that can make efficient and correct(!) concurrent programming mainstream. Programming languages have an important role here in providing programming models and compiler support to deal with complexity and efficiency issues. Hence, important programming language concurrency models are covered as well as more basic concurrency problems and solutions. Prepare to be surprised and amazed!

Abstract Death by accidental complexity
Coordination of dependent activities is a particularly nasty concurrency domain, since the wrong design choices can easily lead to complexity explosion. In sufficiently interesting applications, this will quickly become the dominating challenge - but if we are not trained to recognize the disease and know the cure, we may not even realise what is killing our project. This presentation will demonstrate how even a very basic program can push us towards the brink of insanity. Fortunately, an antidote will also be presented.

See you there!

Tutorials: March 8-9, 2010

Conference: March 10-12, 2010

When registering for the QCon, use the Discount Code "erlangug" and save £50 off the price!

27 March 2010: Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010 (USA)

Erlang Architects, Programmers, Project Managers, Software and Platform Innovators and existing Erlang users as well as Erlang newbies and anyone interested in Erlang are all invited to the 2nd Erlang Factory conference to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Erlang Factory conference will last two days from 25 to 26 March 2010. Each day there will be 3 tracks, each on different theme. Delegates can choose which talks they want to attend from all available tracks.

In addition to the conference, there will be the Erlang University in the three days preceeding the Erlang Factory conference. This provides training in the Erlang language and also in the OTP platform for new and experienced users respectively. By following three days of training in Erlang with two days of conference talks and networking, you will benefit far more than by only having training by itself.

You can subscribe to the Erlang Factory newsletter to receive the latest updates and news or follow @erlangfactory on Twitter and if you want to see how Erlang Factory looked like last year, read the programme, download presentation slides and watch the videos, you can find all that here.

17 April 2010: ACCU 2010: Styling your Architecture in an Evolving Concurrent World and Message-Passing Concurrency in Erlang (Oxford, UK)

ACCU 2010 will take place from 14 to 17 April 2010 at the Barcelo Oxford Hotel, in Oxford, UK. The programme of the conference will feature a special track on software testing, and sessions on concurrent and distributed systems, C++, Java, agile development and Erlang!

Francesco Cesarini (founder of Erlang Solutions Ltd.) and Ulf Wiger (CTO of Erlang Solutions Ltd.) will be speaking there. Francesco's talk will be on Styling your Architecture in an Evolving Concurrent World and Ulf's on Message-Passing Concurrency in Erlang.

Abstract: Styling your Architecture in an Evolving Concurrent World
This talk will look at the most common architecture patterns in Erlang-based products, describing how each of them solves a particular problem while guaranteeing no single points of failure. It will start with the early versions of the AXD301 switch and end with examples of the use of Erlang in cloud computing architectures.

Abstract: Message-Passing Concurrency in Erlang
In this talk, I will describe the principles behind Erlang-style Concurrency - what problems it was designed to solve, and how it fundamentally changes the way you go about structuring your programs. I will illustrate how to achieve great scalability on multicore and in compute clouds, without sacrificing clarity or your own sanity.

Meet us at ACCU 2010!

19 May 2010: Trends in Functional Programming 2010 (Oklahoma, USA)

On May 17-19, 2010 the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming will begin its second decade at the University of Oklahoma.

The symposium is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming. It embraces a broad view of current and future trends in functional programming and aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research and applications. This year the symposium features an invited talk by J Strother Moore. He will describe the ACL2 theorem prover, a system grounded in functional programming that has seen wide application in high-assurance, industrial applications such as integrated circuit design and security- and safety-critical software.

Erlang Training and Consulting Ltd. sponsors this year's Trends in Functional Programming and Francesco Cesarini (founder and CSO of Erlang Training and Consulting Ltd.) sits on the programme committee.

12 June 2010: Erlang Factory London 2010

The dates of the Erlang Factory London 2010 have been announced. You can now mark on your calendars the 7th, 8th and 9th June for the Erlang University training courses and the 10th and 11th June for the Erlang Factory conference.

The programme, as well as registration and talk-submission will all be available in early April. In the meantime, you can find information about the Factory in London here and also have a look at last year’s programme, presentation slides and videos. You can also subscribe to our Erlang Factory newsletter to receive the latest updates and news or follow @erlangfactory on Twitter.

June 2010 belongs to the Erlang Factory in London!

29 September 2010: ICFP 2010 (Baltimore, USA)

The 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, from 27 to 29 September 2010.

ICFP 2010 provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries.

Erlang Solutions will be present at the ICFP 2010 as well as at the Erlang workshop and CUFP 2010 which will take place just after the conference. Meet us there!

30 September 2010: 9th ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop (Baltimore, USA)

9th ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, probably on *30th September 2010. It will be co-located with ICFP 2010.

The workshop will bring together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It will enable participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming.

If you are curious about how the 8th ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop looked like, the presentation slides and more information can be found here.

Erlang Solutions will be present at the ACM-SIGPLAN, as well as at CUFP 2010 and ICFP2010. Meet us there!

* The dates will be confirmed soon.

01 October 2010: Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2010 (Baltimore, USA)

Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2010 (CUFP) will take place in Baltimore, Maryland *probably on 1st October 2010. The event will be co-located with ICFP 2010.

The goal of CUFP is to build a community for users of functional programming languages and technology, be they using functional languages in their professional lives, in an open source project (other than implementation of functional languages), as a hobby, or any combination thereof.

CUFP aims to help functional programming become increasingly viable as a technology for use in the commercial, industrial, and government space, by providing a forum for FP professionals to share their experiences and ideas, whether business, management, or engineering. It also aims to enable the formation and cementing of relationships and alliances that further the use of functional languages. Providing user feedback to language designers and implementers is not a primary goal of the workshop, though it will be welcome if it occurs.

Erlang Solutions will be present at CUFP 2010, as well as at the ACM-SIGPLAN and ICFP2010. Meet us there!

* The dates will be confirmed soon.