A Group of Eleven

Last night’s Erlang Hack Night was awesome! I was completely blown away by the turnout. I started out the evening with pretty low expectations. I told my friend Mark I’d be happy to get 4 people to turn up. Well, we got four people pretty quickly and more just kept on coming. My final count was eleven people!

Since everyone, with a few exceptions, was new to Erlang, I did a quick re-hash of the presentation I gave to raleigh.rb last month.

Everyone seemed interested and asked tons of good questions. The presentation and Q&A session took up most of the evening but we did manage to squeeze in getting Erlang installed on a couple of laptops and work through a few of the programming exercises I brought.

We had so much fun we’re going to do it again! I’m considering holding regular hack nights at CCC. I’m leaning towards the 2nd Thursday of each month since it looks to conflict with the fewest popular meetups. If you’re interested in attending the hack nights, please drop me an email at kevin at hypotheticalabs dot com with your preferred times and we’ll see what the group can work out.

Finally, a great big “THANK YOU” to Brian Russell for the use of CCC’s excellent meeting space. Being able to meet in a real office space and not a restaurant with free wifi was wonderful.

Update: I forgot to mention we now have a registered IRC channel, #erloungeRDU, on Freenode, too! Thanks to Sean Cribbs for setting it up. I’m planning on hanging out there most days, so drop on by if you feel like chatting about Erlang.