I sat down to prepare to get to this year’s PolyConf. I trawled last year’s photos, and found these shots.
(All these photos were taken by polyconf. They’re also All Rights Reserved. So, just links instead of using the awesome paste-a-link-with-oEmbed-support.)
Me having coffee – hair-styling is remarkably difficult in high summer heat.
Will, author of Reasoned Schemer, having coffee sadly, this is the most flattering shot of hime in the collection. The spirited Salt Lake City hacker, whose infectious enthusiasm warmed many conversations was a kind soul and a C64 alumnus. Since then, I’ve bought his book, read half of it, perhaps. It’s mind-bending and kind at the same time. Progress must be slow, as I’m doing this on my own.
Portrait of Robert Virding, author of LFE is tending his language and its community at lfe.io, a decidedly sub-cultural website. For instance, by translating other people’s blog posts on Erlang to be about LFE. My computer still has an LFE install.
Robert Virding directing Joe Nash (Joe, who presented many a hackathon the world over)
Alban, conf org is a French cinéaste as well as a person who computers a lot
The Bodil birtday cake happened during the closing party
Portrait of Stefan Karpinski, Julia author who’s so genuinely nice that I believe he can run a programming language community. I also believe that community can open “fast execution” to many more people.
Portrait of Leah Hanson, Julia hacker who is working on Learning Julia for O’Reilly (to be published in 2016).
Portrait of Amir, MirageOS hacker who was also kind and nice. This community of communities is incredible like that. See Amir’s homepage and the MirageOS Marrakech Spring 2016 hackathon reports. for more notes and inspirational links.
Portrait of José Valim, Elixir author is someone I never spoke to, but his output is consistent and excellent.
Portrait of Jessica Kerr, functional programming hacker made (and makes) great talks. See her talks page.
KTHXBYE!