[OKC JUG] ANN: Strange Loop 2011 Registration and Call for Presentations

[Alex Miller]

Hi all, looking forward to being there next month.

I'm pleased to announce that Strange Loop 2011 has launched!  Strange
Loop 2011 will take place Sept 18-20th in St. Louis, MO.  Early bird
prices start at $250 (until July 8th).

Registrations are open now (see
https://thestrangeloop.com/attendees/register-page for details and the
link).  Strange Loop is a cross-technology conference focused on the
developers building tomorrow's technology in areas like languages,
databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile, and web.

The Strange Loop Call for Presentations can be found at
https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions-page/call-for-presentations and is
open until June 10th.  The full list of keynotes and invited sessions
can be found at http://thestrangeloop.com/sessions.

I urge you to check out the full list for Clojure, Scala, Erlang,
Haskell, Go, JavaScript, and other topics but you might be
particularly interested in presentations like:

* Rich Hickey (keynote)
* Erik Meijer (keynote)
* Allen Wirfs-Brock (keynote)
* Stuart Sierra - Intro to Clojure (workshop)
* Aaron Bedra - Building Analytics with Clojure (workshop)
* Nathan Marz - Cascalog (workshop)
* Bryan O'Sullivan - Haskell (workshop)
* Martin Logan and Eric Merritt - Erlang: Language Essentials (workshop)
* Martin Logan and Eric Merritt - Erlang: Production Grade (workshop)
* Daniel Spiewak - Functional Data Structures in Scala
* Rúnar Bjarnason - Scalaz
* Cliff Moon - Scalang (Erlang / Scala integration)
* Steve Yegge - TBD
* Nathan Marz - Secrets of Building Realtime Big Data Systems
* Jim Duey - Monads Made Easy
* Jeremy Ashkenaz - Coffeescript
* Blake Mizerany - Doozer - Highly Available Data (Go)
* Peter Veentjer - Multiverse STM
* Yoko Harada - Embedding RubyGems over RedBridge

Hope to see you there,

Alex Miller
Strange Loop founder