Looks very good! We are trying to see if some of our developers in Cochin can go. (I'm envious of them, JuliaCon Cambridge was great)
-Scott On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 12:11:13 PM UTC-4, Viral Shah wrote: > > Hello all, > > Just wanted to let everyone know about JuliaCon India. I am pretty > excited. The website is still being refined, but things are running late > (aren’t they always?) and this announcement went out today. > > -viral > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *HasGeek <in...@hasgeek.com <javascript:>> > *Subject: **JuliaCon comes to Bangalore* > *Date: *16 September 2015 10:45:12 am IST > *To: *Viral B. Shah <vi...@mayin.org <javascript:>> > *Reply-To: *HasGeek <in...@hasgeek.com <javascript:>> > > You are receiving this mail because you attended HasGeek events. Email > not displaying correctly? > View it in your browser > <http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c84c1486d2d6a025417c5d146&id=b69f2a4899&e=4cc35ce9d8>. > > > > Hi Viral B. Shah, > > We're excited to announce a brand new conference featuring the Julia > programming language > <http://hasgeek.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c84c1486d2d6a025417c5d146&id=7adc67a4c6&e=4cc35ce9d8>. > > > In partnership with the Julia community and Julia Computing > <http://hasgeek.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c84c1486d2d6a025417c5d146&id=b19005d75e&e=4cc35ce9d8>, > > we present the first edition of JuliaCon India in Bangalore on 9 and 10 > October. > > http://www.juliacon.in/2015/ > > Julia is a high-level dynamic language with a focus on data science and > numerical computing. 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