Scala Lift Off – Saturday, 6 June 2009, San Francisco - Register now
The Scala Lift Off is the user conference that takes place right after the JavaOne conference and just before the Apple WWDC.
991 Tennessee Street, San Francisco
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Transit Directions:
IN SF: Take the T Muni Line "inbound" and get off at 20th St. and walk 1.5 blocks From South: Get off Cal Train 22nd St Station and walk 5 blocks.
Schedule:
Doors Open at 9am - breakfast & coffee
Martin talks at 9:30
Agenda Making at 9:50
2 Sessions
Lunch
Speed Geeking
3 Sessions
Closing of day at 5:30 (please plan to stay until the end)
Beer to follow - place TBD
New for this year will be Speed Geeking This is a format for doing short demo's of projects
We will have sign-ups for this in the morning and until it happens just after lunch. If you have something you want to Demonstrate prepare a 5 min talk/demo and be prepared to give it 10 times in a row. You will just be doing it off your laptop.
This is an Unconference - we create the agenda live the day of the event. We do invite you to think about what you want to present about, questions you hope to get answered and issues you hope to discuss with peers. You can read this PDF about how to prepare for attending.
Our Facilitator will again be Kaliya Hamlin who did a great job last year - you can read more about her work here she has facilitated over 75 unconferences for technical community.
We will be doing documentation - collecting notes from all the sessions. Please be prepared to participate in this process.
It’s a friendly community event for the whole range of Scala enthusiasts from those just “checking it out” to recognised experts who have been developing it for years. This diversity means you can learn everything you need to know about any aspect of the Scala language or the Lift Web Framework.
Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala, will be giving the opening talk, “Scala – The next five years”, where he will outline a Scala roadmap for the future. He will be there throughout the day participating in the conference and able to answer all the questions you may have. He is keen to hear what you are doing with Scala and what you think needs to be done.
After Martin’s talk the whole community that is gathered will make the agenda for the day. Like last year Kaliya Hamlin an expert unconference designer and facilitator will be guiding us through this process.
Sessions will cover a vast range of topics and reflect the mix of new Scala programmers, experts and commercial developers, so sessions can range over a broad topic area. You can already register suggestions on the wiki ahead of time, however all scheduling will be done that day.
Just some of the experts who will be at the ScalaLiftOff include
- Philipp Haller & Frank Sommers who are presenting Actor-Based Concurrency in Scala (TS-5395) at JavaOne
- Bill Venners -who is presenting The Feel of Scala (TS-4487) at JavaOne
- David Pollak - who is presenting Lift: The Best Way to Create Rich Internet Applications with Scala (BOF-3820) at JavaOne
- Jonas Bonér who is presenting State:You are doing it wrong- Alternative Concurrency Paradigms on the JVM machine. (TS-4641) at JavaOne
- Alex Payne, lead API developer from Twitter.
- Dean Wampler with whom he co-authored “Programming Scala”.
- Venkat Subramaniam who also authored a book on Scala.
- Steve Jenson, all-around-geek from Twitter.
- Miles Sabin, lead developer of the Eclipse Scala Environment.
- Dion Almear, Ajaxian and developer of Bespin who will talk about Lift/Bespin integration
We have the expertise to support a wide range of topics, some ideas to get you started.
- Creating a Lift Application
- Things commercial developers need
- What’s a DSL and how do I write one?
- How the Scala collections work.
- Scala Actors, an introduction
- Why is immutable important
- IDE’s tips
- Introduction to Scala
- Getting the most out of the type system.
- Passing around functions
If there is something in particular you would like to do or learn tell us when you register or suggest it on the Wiki.
Last year, more than 80 Scala and Lift enthusiasts gathered at the Scala Lift Off. Martin Odersky, father of Scala, gave the opening talk. Kaliya Hamlin facilitated the unconference. The Lambda the Ultimate folks reviewed last years event. Ted Leung wrote up information as well. And there were lots of pictures taken.
The Scala Lift Off San Francisco will be held on Saturday, June 6th in San Francisco, the day after JavaOne. Admission to the event is $200. If you are a full time student or faculty member, the cost is $50. We'll have hot and cold running food and beverages, improved wifi, and lots of terrific members of the Scala and Lift community.
The following Scala User groups will be represented:
Please join us. We would enjoy learning from your experience.
Create an account and you can register now.