erlounge RDU June Meetup

Wow. Another month has gone by and it's time for another erlounge. Things have gotten a bit stale of late and I've no-one to blame but myself. It's time I fixed that.

So.

This month, and subsequent months, we're going to start splitting the meetings into two parts. The first, lasting 30-45 minutes will be a directed learning session focusing on some aspect of Erlang. This month we'll focus on the basics of Erlang, getting it installed and getting acquainted with the syntax. In subsequent months we'll move onto writing concurrent programs and finally exploring the power of distributed Erlang.

The second half of the meeting, lasting for at least 30 minutes, will be an informal session where people can continue working on programming exercises, socialize, or give a 5-10 minute lightning talk about something cool they're doing with Erlang. We've got a small but growing Erlang community who's doing some pretty cool stuff like Mark Imbriaco who put Erlang to work at 37 Signals and Sean Cribbs who's written a Twitter bot in Erlang.