> > Any update on agenda and hotel? > It is a travel red period, flights are quickly booking up and becoming expensive, probably the same with hotel rooms. I would like to make arrangements soon should I decide to make it.
For what is worth, here is a quick overview of what I am interested in as a brand new potential user considering Julia for upcoming bigger-data prototyping needs where I expect something like R to choke. In such a conference, along with getting to know the community in person, I would want to learn what it takes to get going seriously and feel confident the language is *mature enough* to get going productively. Topics/sessions I would love to attend and learn are (sorry for probably stating the obvious and also missing important points too): - Background on "why Julia" and architecture, explaining all the strengths, would be a good introduction even though most people showing up would probably know a fair amount about it. - Current functional status & road map emphasizing strengths -- and being honest with some weak points too! - Stable version upgrade process: how to keep the latest *stable versions* of all packages in sync. - 101 "hello world" practical tutorial session hitting all the basics of what one would need to know to be productive with basics like loading delimited ascii data, simple crunching like linear regression as a simple enough example, plotting, reporting (IJulia?). In my opinion, comparing several Julia approaches/packages with non-Julia ways like R & Matlab/Octave would also be very beneficial as many new folks would probably be able to relate at least to one of those standard languages. - Some more advanced specialized sessions on miscellaneous *key*packages -- e.g., DataFrames, plotting like Winston, Gadfly, IJulia, interface data with databases. - I am sure many users would love to attend more advanced specialized sessions -- e.g., LP & IP optimization, statistical methods. - Some sessions on success stories would also be interesting and motivating. - Tricks & tips on how to get the most out of Julia, in particular but not necessarily limited to performance. - IDE's (current in pipeline) would also be an interesting topic. Any chance for an Eclipse plugin? Thanks. Patrick
