Salt & Straw cart coming to Clojure/West

I'm very happy that the Salt & Straw cart will be bringing their amazing ice cream selections to Clojure/West on Monday, March 18th for our afternoon break.  

The flavors we'll have available are: 

• Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons
• Coffee & Bourbon
• Strawberry Balsamic with Cracked Black Pepper
• Almond Brittle with Salted Ganache
• Pear with Blue Cheese

Salt&Straw describes their ice cream:

Our ice cream is handmade in small-batches using only all-natural dairy with the best local, sustainable and organic ingredients Oregon has to offer, as well as imported flavors from small, handpicked farms and producers around the world. We start with local cream from Lochmead Dairy in Eugene, Oregon. All their cows were born right there on their third generation, family farm – so we know it's the highest quality we can get and super fresh. Our ice cream is made with 17% butterfat, very little air in the churn process, and a low sweetness level...so the flavors can really shine through!

Lightning talks and unsessions open!

Two areas of Clojure/West are based on ideas submitted by attendees - unsessions and lightning talks. 

Unsessions will be held on the evening of Monday, March 18th at the conference hotel (Courtyard City Portland) from 6-10 pm. You can add your unsession ideas or support existing ones on the Unsessions wiki page. When the conference gets close, we will put together a schedule based on the ideas and interest.

Lightning talks will be held on Wednesday, March 20th during the conference. Lightning talks are limited to 6 minutes and can be on any subject that Clojure developers might find interesting. You can submit lightning talks until February 25th and a poll of Clojure/West attendees will then be done to select the lightning talks for the conference, to be announced March 1st.

Clojure/West 2013 Call for Presentations

I'm very happy to announce that the Clojure/West 2013 Call for Presentations is now open! We are looking for 40-minute sessions on both introductory and advanced topics. Speakers receive free airfare and hotel for the conference.

Clojure/West will be held March 18-20th in Portland, OR at the Gerding Theater in the Armory. This year we will have a mixture of one-track (like the conj) and 2-track times, hopefully to get the best of both formats. 

Our hotel venue will be the Courtyard City Center and we have a block with rooms at a rate of $124/night. We will be leveraging the bountiful food courts and restaurants in the Pearl District for lunch. Removing that cost will allow us to reduce the ticket prices from last year to $275 for a limited number of early bird and $325 for regular admission costs. Registration will open in December.

Hope you can join us in Portland!

Clojure/West video schedule

Long overdue, the Clojure/West videos will start appearing on InfoQ next week.

Videos are listed by the week of release. Slides can be found at the GitHub slide repo.

• 5/14/2012: Pallet, DevOps for the JVM - Antoni Batchelli
• 5/21/2012: Why is a Monad Like a Writing Desk? - Carin Meier
• 5/28/2012: Why Prismatic goes faster with Clojure - Bradford Cross
• 6/4/2012: The Datomic Architecture and Data Model - Rich Hickey
• 6/4/2012: Evident Code, at Scale - Stuart Halloway
• 6/11/2012: Composing Statistical Graphics On the Web - Kevin Lynagh
• 6/11/2012: Programming with Values in Clojure - Alan Dipert
• 6/18/2012: Clojure-powered Startups: a three-part story - Paul deGrandis
• 6/18/2012: What sucks about Clojure...and why you'll love it anyway - Chas Emerick
• 6/25/2012: Load testing with Clojure - Andy Kriger
• 6/25/2012: clojure @ runa :: dynamic pricing through DSLs - Amit Rathore
• 7/2/2012: The Taming of the Deftype - Baishampayan Ghose 
• 7/2/2012: Building tools to help kids fight ADHD - Alan Whitaker
• 7/9/2012: Knockbox, an Eventual Consistency Toolkit - Reid Draper
• 7/9/2012: Introducing Immutant - Jim Crossley
• 7/16/2012: Building User Interfaces with Seesaw - Dave Ray
• 7/16/2012: Clojure in the Clouds - Micah Martin
• 7/23/2012: Accessing Real-World APIs from Clojure - Pat Patterson
• 7/23/2012: Scalable Realtime Computation with Storm's Clojure DSL - Nathan Marz
• 7/30/2012: Real World Clojure - Doing Boring Stuff With An Exciting Language - Sean Corfield
• 7/30/2012: Crunching Numbers With Clojure - Daniel Solano Gomez
• 8/6/2012: Distilling Java Libraries - Zach Tellman
• 8/6/2012: SOLID Clojure - Colin Jones
• 8/13/2012: Practical core.logic - Ryan Senior
• 8/13/2012: Clojure, JRuby on Rails, and You - Allen Rohner
• 8/20/2012: Swarm Coding - Phil Hagelberg
• 8/27/2012: Thinking in Data - Stuart Sierra
• 8/27/2012: Laziness: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Paul Stadig
• 9/3/2012: The generative generation - Aaron Bedra
• 9/3/2012: Adopting Continuous Testing in Clojure - Bill Caputo
• 9/10/2012: Engineering(,) A Path to Science: "I don’t want to die in a language I can’t understand" - Richard Gabriel
• 9/10/2012: Namespaces, Symbols, and Vars, Oh My! - Craig Andera
• 9/17/2012: Bootstrapping Clojure at Groupon - Tyler Jennings
• 9/17/2012: DSLs in Clojure - Jim Duey
• 9/24/2012: ClojureScript Anatomy - Michael Fogus
• 9/24/2012: Macros are Hard! - David McNeil
• 10/1/2012: Beyond Ninjas: DOM manipulation with ClojureScript and Domina - Luke VanderHart
• 10/1/2012: Building Libraries for ClojureScript - Learning to Love Google Closure - Creighton Kirkendall
• 10/8/2012: Distributed Apps: The Joys of Testing and Debugging - Chris Houser

One day tickets available for Clojure/West

If you're interested in attending Clojure/West but not able to attend the entire event, one day tickets are now available:  Friday-only for $250 and Saturday-only for $200.  Both 1-day tickets include access to the Friday night unsessions and Overtone jam party.

Register now!