The previous years conferences have been great! Wide range of technologies covered. Last year Guy Steele, and Doug Crockford gave a keynotes. Among my favorite talks last year were Nathan Marz on Cascalog, a data processing library written in Clojure, and Ryan Dahl on NodeJS.

Just noticed that Rich Hickey is giving a keynote this year. Really excited about this. I've watched some videos of his previous talks. He is one intelligent guy.

Douglas Crockford's keynote was awesome. It's up on InfoQ I believe.

There should be a way to find out who on HN is attending what conference/s so that if we end up going to the same venues, we could schedule meetups.

Anything like that exist?

The Strange Loop site is a Rails 3 / Refinery site hosted on github at https://github.com/strangeloop/site

If anyone is interested in working on features for the site, we'd be happy to accept contributions. Google group for discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/strange-loop-site-dev/

And I should mention that I'd happy be happy to offer a conference discount up to a free pass in proportion for significant contributions.

http://lanyrd.com/ and in fact it was a YC Winter 11 company to boot :)

Specifically: http://lanyrd.com/2011/strange-loop

I got to spend my 19th birthday at this conference last year and it was well worth every penny (which, if you look at the reasonable prices, wasn't many).

A lot of the info is on the website, but I want to really highlight the networking aspect. I walked out of that conference knowing so many more people, while also strengthening existing bonds, and that single Strange Loop experience has continued to serve me well when introducing myself to other people who I know attended but was not able to meet while there.

In short, I highly recommend Strange Loop. Be sure to identify yourself as a HNer, I'll try to seek anyone that does out so we can meet up.

I just registered, and I must say I can't wait! I've heard great things, and am looking forward to it!

Sounds awesome. I'll be able to make it this year!

Ahh, St. Louis. I used to live there, a long time ago (ages -11). Such a wonderful, beautiful city. And if anyone has never been to the St. Louis Arch, you're missing out.

I hate St. Louis...I think I have bad memory associations with it because we had to go there to the Children's Hospital for my sister. It is also the only place I have ever been mugged - twice! - despite having frequently traveled to much more dangerous places. The second mugger even took my clothing at gunpoint. And the muggings occurred within 80 feet of the St. Louis Arch and several cops. Don't go near the Arch around dusk. The Arch seems like a safe place, but it is on the periphery of a more dangerous area.

Will there be videos? Last year there where if I remember correctly.

Yes, there will be videos. We have not finalized any arrangement yet. Strange Loop 2010 videos can all be found here: https://thestrangeloop.com/news/strange-loop-video-schedule

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