No, it's not about the use of functional programming with monadic treatment for side effects. It is actually an open initiative to spread functional knowledge through the world.
The Lambda I/O Foundation consists of an open initiative which aims to introduce people around the world to all the features and benefits of the functional paradigm knowledge.
We intend to do that by organizing small, friendly-environmented, meetups on functional programming around the world which would climax in a big event per country.
Our mission is to deconstruct the indoctrination surrounding imperative languages teaching which unfortunately plagues many places in the world and, consecutively, their IT education systems - ranging from technical to postgraduates courses by providing resources and a community that makes it easier to learn about functional programming, functional languages, use cases etc.
This initiative was born in Brazil, created by a small group of technical and undergraduate students who were simply tired of learning always the same imperative-related concepts and languages in their classes.
As the functional buzz grows it is very common to see nowadays people who have been wondering what functional programming is all about but can't find the right resources, good motivation or even a community to support his/her studies and then give up on learning. The situation becomes even worse when we realize that many of IT professionals, people who deal with software development - and even Computer Science students - have never heard of a different paradigm such as the functional one.
The idea is to make small Lambda I/O Meetups per city. Those meetups consists of an one-day meetup with talks - and maybe workshops - about everything in the functional world:
- The paradigm itself
- Purist languages
- Functional libs and implementations
- Parallelism/Concurrency
- Benefits
- Use cases
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Those Lambda I/O Meetups have a pre-formatted style which can be found here.
The small meetups aim to promote the functional knowledge in distributed/ (de)centralized way but they aren't enough since they exactly small meetups. So it is also important to promote big conferences yearly which would congregate big amounts of people per country.
Those Lambda I/O Conferences have a pre-formatted style which can be found here.
As stated in the Motivation section, people are our reason. So it is very important to think about their experience - by helping them and being as nice as possible. Functional paradigm can be awesome - so why can't we try to make people learning it feel awesome too?
Our philosophy works based on a centralized model of decentralization. To help understanding, it can be divided in two points:
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Any group of people has the freedom to organize Lambda I/O events wherever and whenever they want.
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The meetups are independent of each other.
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The Lambda I/O Foundation does not set specific details of the individual scope of each meetup - such as dates, agenda, sponsors, supporters etc.
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To make the organization and interaction of meetups with the proposal of the foundation easier, all organizational repositories of meetups and conferences are gathered in the Lambda I/O Foundation's Github organization. For each meetup it is created a team that will have full power to define the details described in the Decentralization principle and the teams only have access to their meetups - ensuring their independence. The born of a meetup - and their respective team in the Lambda I/O Foundation's Github organization - only needs the interest of a possible facilitator as stated here.
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All the events - meetups and conferences - must adhere to the basic principles of the foundation - as its proposal, code of conduct etc.
We aim to have many useful repositories to help people with all the Lambda I/O purpose, they are:
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A simple guide on how to organize Lambda I/O meetups.
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A simple guide on how to organize Lambda I/O conferences.
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Repo containing some resources which aim to help organizers of Lambda I/O events across the world.
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Every event needs one.
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Logo Generator for every city meetup.
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Meetup/Conference Site Boilerplate
Such a very easy way to create websites for conferences/meetups.
This manifest aims to be translated in as many languages as possible. At this moment, these are the available ones. If you miss any language and you'd like to help us, feel free to contribute.
Contributions are as welcome as possible! If you would like to help us in our mission, the contributing guidelines can be found here.
The documentation around the Lambda I/O Manifest and everything in this repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license except the logo and other images, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.
All contributions are assumed to be also licensed under the same.