This is for anyone using Scala - or interested in its benefits or deficiencies. It's not a fanboy club, but expects pragmatic "what works is good" approach, and welcomes people from multiple backgrounds and preferences. Other JVM languages are not excluded, but the main focus would be in Scala and its frameworks in practical, everyday programming life. The reason for starting the meetup is that it doesn't already exist. If meeting places incur some cost, that will be shared by the participants. …

This is a group of developers in the Greater Helsinki Area (=Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, etc.), Finland, who have an interest in the F# ("F-Sharp") programming language. Novices and experts are both welcome.

Inspired by Ruby? But living in the freezing north? Come and join us to thaw (defrost), meet, talk, share and mostly spend time with other people who are interested and inspired by Ruby. Topics will include anything related to Ruby, which off course includes a lot of Rails, but also, in no specific order, language features, virtual machines, testing frameworks, development methodologies, application servers, deployment, any interesting gems and anything else you want to talk about. So just come …