Julia for Reals

There are many passionate and curious people about Julia in the Eindhoven region but sometimes we feel alone and don't know each other. This meetup will aim to bring us together by having technical talks for technical people... no sales, no marketing, no recruiting ... just technical talks with some code. The theme for this meetup is Julia for Reals, as we will have speakers sharing their journey in adopting Julia in Real applications / production. If this sounds interesting sign-up and bring your friends.

And yes, there will be some free food and drinks.

Agenda:
17:30 - Doors Open (let's network a little before the event)
18:00 - Welcome and introduction - Keith - Sioux
18:10 - How to maintain a large Julia package ecosystem - Abel Siqueira from Netherlands eScience center
18:40 - Free Dinner
19:15 - A down to earth approach to building applications in Julia - Nicholas Shindler (Alten and MapXact)
19:45 – Networking and drinks

Looking forward to seeing you there.

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JuliaSmoothOptimizers is an 8 years old organization dedicated to linear algebra and optimization. We have over 50 packages with a large degree of interconnectivity. I will talk about tips and challenges for maintaining large ecosystems of packages based on our experience with JuliaSmoothOptimizers.
Links: https://abelsiqueira.github.io and https://juliasmoothoptimizers.github.io
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MapXact is a Geoscience company specializing in mapping the underground. When we chose Julia for building our new radar software, we launched an exciting and sometimes bumpy adventure into the world of Julia. I will share my journey, and some of the interesting things we learned along the way.
Link: [https://mapxact.com ](https://mapxact.com)