Hey All,
I'm excited to announce that the Clojure/conj call for proposals opened today! Details are below. Feel free to email me or Alex Miller at eve...@cognitect.com if you have any questions. Thanks! Lynn from Cognitect Speak at the Conj! Clojure/conj 2014 is a single track, three day conference featuring the Clojure programming language held from November 20-22, 2014 in Washington D.C. at the Warner Theater <http://warnertheatredc.com/>. https://cognitect.wufoo.com/forms/clojureconj-2014-call-for-presentations/ Clojure/conj Call for Presentations - Call for Proposals opens: June 16, 2014 - Call for Proposals ends: August 1, 2014 - Speakers notified by: August 18, 2014 - Conference dates: November 20-22, 2014 Admission and travel All speakers receive the following benefits: - Free admission to Clojure/conj - Up to 4 nights in the conference hotel - US airfare or $550 travel stipend for international speakers Sessions Sessions are 50 minutes long and take place from November 20-22, 2014. Attendees will also have the opportunity to propose lightning talks and Unsession topics in October, 2014 (exact date TBD). Talks generally break down into three main categories: Idea Talks, Tool Talks and Experience Talks. In the past we have picked talks along these lines: - Clojure in the Real World - Case Studies - Clojure in Education, Science, Health care, etc. - ClojureScript, Datomic - Applications of Clojure libraries - New ideas in Clojure Previous conference talks can be found at Youtube channel, ClojureTV <https://www.youtube.com/user/ClojureTV> We’d also be more than happy to chat about your idea beforehand via eve...@cognitect.com. Our Google Hangouts sessions are also a great way to discuss topics. Diversity We are making a special effort to contact and solicit a more diverse set of speakers - anything you can do to distribute information about this CFP and encourage submissions from under-represented groups would be greatly appreciated. We welcome your contributions and encourage you to apply!! Google Hangouts We’ll be hosting two different Google Hangouts sessions to discuss topics. We’ll also tweet out links from the @clojure_conj Twitter account when we’re about to get started. July 17, 10:00-10:30 AM Eastern July 25, 3:00-3:30 PM Eastern Clojure/conj is organized by the folks at Cognitect, Inc. <http://cognitect.com/> Contact eve...@cognitect.com if you have any questions or you want to bounce around some ideas. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
