This is the website for the Western Massachusetts Developers' Group. We meet up twice every month (every other Thursday). Our meetings are pretty casual, if you're involved in any kind of development and are in our area, stop by our next meeting and join our e-mail list, we also have a Facebook group. You might also catch us on IRC (niven.freenode.net) in the #wmassdevs channel.
No one is likely to forget, but I wanted to post reminding everyone that this Thursday is Clojure Day. 
Lou has managed to get Rick Hickey to speak to the group and Chas is providing a larger space. We’ll be meeting over at Potpourri Plaza (243 King Street in Northampton) and this meeting will start at 6:30pm.
If you haven’t played around with Clojure, you should definitely check it out.
We look forward to seeing you there!
We’re meeting again this Thursday, March 6. We’ll be gathering over at Panera Bread in Hadley, we meet towards the back. We’ll be working for a more sane table and chair setup this week as well, the spiral was a novel idea but I suspect the best is yet to come.
See you there!
On March 20th, the regular meeting of the Western Mass Developer’s Group will feature Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure.
Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that compiles to Java Bytecode and runs on the JVM. It features persistent, immutable data structures and a model for creating multi-threaded designs. If you haven’t seen clojure, please take a look at the site:
The meeting will be at 243 King Street in Northampton — Chas has arranged a space, and there is a lot of parking. The presentation will start at 6:30.
And, if you have a chance, you might want to check out his talk at the Lisp NYC meeting:
We’re having a meeting tonight, we had to skip last week on account of Valentine’s Day. Our schedule has changed as well, our next meeting will be two weeks from this one.
Join us at Panera Bread tonight at 7:00pm for some tech chat and food.
We have a meeting this week, Thursday January 31st. We’ll be meeting up at Panera Bread in Hadley, look for us towards the back of the restaurant.
See you there! 
Our next meeting is coming up this week: Thursday January 17th. We’ll be meeting up at our usual place, Panera Bread in Hadley. Join us for coffee, some tech chat, and some news about the upcoming Functional Programming Summit.
Our next meeting is tonight, Thursday January 3rd. Ring in 2008 with a developer meeting!
And not just mildly inclement, I mean seriously unpleasant. They say a foot of snow, starting at noon!
Our next meeting will be next week (12/20) and the meeting on Christmas week (12/27) has been canceled. Or rescheduled for our glass-half-full developers. 
That’s right, we have another developer meeting coming up this week. We’ll be gathering at Panera Bread this Thursday (Dec. 13) in Hadley at 7:00, most likely towards the back. Join us for some coffee or maybe a sandwich and chat about what you’ve been working on lately.
Doug sent out this e-mail to the mailing list today about our new Facebook group.
In our never ending quest to stay hip and relevant in today’s world we’ve
setup a Facebook group for the developer’s meeting:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20811386120
The name of the group is “Western Mass Developers” in case the link above
does not work for you.There is a photo and a video up there from last night. None of the photos
from my camera where that good — I think it was set for manual instead of
automatic so the focus was off on almost all the pics.The video should help dispel the illusion your significant other may have of
the group being a modern day Algonquin Round Table — as my wife said when
she saw it: “wow, it’s just a bunch of guys sitting around talking”.
A link has been added to the blurb at the top of our website, too.
