OCaml users meeting
Location: Grenoble, France
Date: Wednesday 4th February 2009
Free entry, participants must signup, open to all.
This event takes place just after the JFLA in a near location.
Since last year event there has been a growing number of initiative around OCaml. This year event is a way to meet other OCaml developpers face-to-face and talked about everything that was done in a year. We hope to have a meeting center about practical issue in OCaml and reports about project that has gain some momentum in OCaml world.
This program is still under construction. This is only gross estimation of what will be done on 2009/02/04 at WTC.
3rd February (between JFLA and OCaml Meeting)
4th February
If you are willing to give us a talk, submit a short description following the example above. If there are too many talks for a single day, we will have to choose among all the talk, using a vote like last year.
The deadline for submitting talks is 25th January 2009.
OCamlCore.org news and projects by Sylvain Le Gall and administration team
OCamlCore.org team is the group of people that take care of administrative part of OCamlCore.org. OCamlCore.org is a set of resource provided to the OCaml community like a forge and a planet.
This short talk will present what has been done during the last year on OCamlCore.org. It will also give some possible direction on what this platform can offer to the OCaml community in the next year.
Slides: TODO
Website: OCamlCore.org
OCaml Batteries Included OCaml Batteries included (or simply "Batteries") is a community-driven effort to standardize on an consistent, documented, and comprehensive development platform for the OCaml programming language.
Batteries is meant to serve the following purposes:
The project was started after last year's OCaml Meeting in Paris. With this talk, we will show the current status of OCaml Batteries Included and how it may be useful for you and for newbies -- and we'll try to convince you to switch to this foundation library.
Cameleon/Chamo Cameleon is a set of tools put together to create an IDE for OCaml. One of these tools is Chamo, a source code editor written in ocaml, a kind of emacs but with ocaml instead of elisp to customize or add features.
If people are interested, there can be a talk to introduce Chamo:
Website: http://home.gna.org/cameleon/chamo.en.html
Delimited overloading (to be confirmed). Delimited overloading is a set of syntax extensions that allow
In this talk, we will demonstrate the possibilities of delimited overloading, explain some of the problems and solutions that we found while developing it, and show how you can use it for your own purposes.
Website: http://pa-do.forge.ocamlcore.org/
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This year we will move to Grenoble. We have choose to organize the meeting at WTC which is near the railway station and easily accessible.
The meeting will be on 2009/02/04, just after the JFLA.
Lunch will take place at WTC and will be paid through the fee. The organization team has done its best to reduce this fee, taking it to 32€.
Lunch buffet (french):
The fee include all the drinks.
If a group of people want to meet outside a conference room, a nice restaurant can be booked for the group. This will be an additional cost ranging from 30€ to 40€, depending on the restaurant. This will happen the day before the conference (3rd February)
In the same spirit, people can join before the dinner in a bar.
This dinner will take place at "La Brasserie du Palais" just in front of the WTC. A call for participants will be done on January the 25th, once the inscription will be closed.
The cost will be around 30€.
You can find a list of hotels on the WTC website.
A wifi connection will be available in the conference room.
The organization team will check that this connection is compatible with all OS.
Participant should sign up directly using the subscription form below. The subscription fees cover lunch and coffee pause.