Welcome!

We are a community-in-the-making of Erlang professionals and enthusiasts in the Montreal area with interest in this great technology and related topics. We have a mailing list hosted with Google and we (try to) have (hopefully regular) meetings around relevant topics such as Erlang, functional programming, fault-tolerance, concurrency and programming paradigms. We strive to be a welcoming community for all stake-holders including non-erlangers, non-programmers and just plain nosy people ;)

The first meeting was anything but smooth! We had to face some hurdles finding the venue, agreeing on a date/time, finding recording equipment, ...etc. It gets even better; we get to the venue and discover that the overhead projector was misplaced/stolen on the previous week day! Luckily, Dominique Boucher, our first speaker, saved the day and rushed to his office to get one.

We also had another hero, François Pinard, who recorded the talk (voice) as we couldn't find a video camera and the audio recording setup that I had didn't fit the bill. He even edited the audio running it through various filters to enhance the quality. The audio file is attached. Many thanks, François!

You will notice that the audio will not suffice when a screencast would have been more appropriate to Dominique's demos. However, we had technical limitations and we decided to release the audio nonetheless for the technical posterity.

Dominique made the talk slides available on SlideShare.

Note: this announcement was originally posted on April 26, 2011, on another site. It is re-posted here for the record.

The first meeting for the Erlang Montreal group is finally here. Following is the meeting announcement email sent to the erlang-montreal google group and posted on the EUG-Canada LinkedIn sub-group:

Hello everyone!

I am happy to announce the first meeting for the Erlang Montreal group next month. As mentioned previously, Dominique Boucher will deliver the first talk entitled:

Erlang at Nü Echo: Some Lessons Learned

Dominique uses Erlang at Nü Echo which is a Montreal-based speech applications company. We are grateful for the opportunity to hear from someone with industry experience in Erlang.

Venue: Notman House: 51 Sherbrooke Ouest (1 block west of Saint Laurent)
Date and time: Thursday, May 12th @ 6:30pm
RSVP: post a comment on this event announcement posting (temporary until we create a permanent space for Erlang Montreal).

Everyone is welcome!

-signed(ahmed).