The next two months are the busiest stretch of the BEAM calendar, and there's a distinctly antipodean flavour to it this year. The season at a glance:
- ElixirConf US, 10 to 11 September, Chicago and online (a virtual ticket gets you both tracks).
- Goatmire Elixir, 28 September to 3 October, Varberg, Sweden, with AshConf capping it off.
- Code BEAM Europe, 21 to 22 October, Haarlem, Netherlands and online.
Goatmire
Goatmire is the one we keep hearing about: a community-first Elixir gathering in the seaside town of Varberg that optimises for connection over scale. The week runs free community workshops at Campus Varberg on the 28th and 29th, then three conference days at Varbergs Teater, with day one doubling as NervesConf EU. Speakers include Nerves core's Frank Hunleth, Sonic Pi creator Sam Aaron, and Ash creator Zach Daniel among 35+ others.
AshConf, co-presented by Alembic
Saturday 3 October is AshConf, a dedicated one-day Ash Framework conference presented by the Ash project together with Alembic, with talks from Ash core team members, key contributors and expert users. It's free for Erlang Ecosystem Foundation annual supporting members (everyone else is invited to donate to the Ash Open Collective), lunch included. The call for speakers is open on Sessionize, and you can register on Luma.
I'll be there too, talking about precision domain modelling with Ash and Localize (yes, the library Kip showed us this month), and what becomes possible when your domain model has better types. Zach's announcement was far too kind about it.
Familiar faces on the programme
The Goatmire week is thick with people who've stood in front of this meetup:
- Conor Sinclair (tech lead at Alembic) co-leads the free Ash Demystified workshop with Ash core's Barnabas Jovanovics: a ground-level introduction to why developers won't shut up about Ash.
- James Harton (principal engineer at Alembic, Ash core team, author of Reactor and Ash Authentication) is doing double duty: the Beam Bots: Robotics on the BEAM talk with live robot demos, plus the Achieving Balance in the Workshop session where attendees assemble a Nerves-powered balance bot, drive it from a Phoenix app on their phone, and take the robot home.
- Rebecca Le (Alembic, Ash core team, co-author of the Ash book) presents Video Game Archaeology with Elixir: parsing Morrowind's 24-year-old binary format, modelling the game world with Ash and Postgres, and browsing it all in LiveView.
If Sweden is a stretch, the ElixirConf US virtual ticket is the easy way to get a conference fix from this timezone, and Code BEAM Europe streams online too. Closer to home, we'll see you at the September Hack Night.