Erlang Factory and RainUp Project - Phase I
All I can say is: I am AMAZED by the Erlang community! Sadly here in Greece there isn’t an active Erlang community (but if your are interested in starting one, give me tweet at jonromero) even though there are some crazy Erlang projects (tidier/HiPE/Dialyzer) and some crazy researchers/developers.
All the presentations were inspiring (and most of them uplifting) but what was very strange was the bonding of the community. Guys (and girls) with great knowledge about distributed systems, hacking and expertise in the their field, were easy not only to be approached but also give share thoughts, business directions and discuss about everything (ranging from new BEAM features to “I love summer in Greece”). And of course Joe Armstrong is not only a great scientist but a VERY funny, inspiring and open-hearted person. We had great discussions with him during Speaker’s dinner (where he was ecstatic about us trying to run thousand of nodes for our project) but also bought us some beers the last day where we chilling out after the conference. What a great guy!
O’Reilly was there with 35% discount with books for Clojure, Python, Ruby, Software architecture and of course the Erlang Programming and Programming Erlang (with signatures of Joe Armstrong, Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson).
After having a GREAT time at the Erlang Factory and meeting with a lot of interesting and fun-to-be around people, it’s time to continue working on RainUp. We’ve uploaded some info here and you can download our presentation slides here (soon the video will be available from the erlang-factory.com ).
For our first phase we need to find some really interesting problems to start working on, so if you have any interesting algorithms please send us an email at contact@rainup.org.
We have some servers to start working on but we are still interested in more computing power (there is along way to infinity), so if you have a datacenter to spare or money to help us fund the whole thing, send us an email at contact@rainup.org
