# Where are Julia users who want to meet up?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298>\
**Category:** Meetups\
**Tags:** meetup\
**Created:** [October 6, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298 "2017-10-06T21:00:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![jballanc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jballanc/32/328_2.png) [@jballanc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jballanc)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/1 "2017-10-06T21:00:42Z")

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I thought it might be useful to have a single thread to collect where everyone looking for a potential meet up is located and whether or not they’d be willing to help with organization. So, to kick things off…

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- **Location** : Miami, FL
- **Willing to Organize** : No
- **Willing to Assist an Organizer** : Yes
- **Topics of Interest** : Evolutionary Modeling, Bioinformatics, Image Processing, Machine Learning

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At the moment I still have a number of projects keeping me pretty busy, so I don’t have a lot of time to call around for venues, but I’d be happy to help out with organization/setup/teardown if there are other people in South Florida interested in getting together.

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**Author:** ![tuckermcclure](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tuckermcclure/32/1187_2.png) [@tuckermcclure](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tuckermcclure)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/2 "2017-10-06T21:54:37Z")

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- Location: Los Angeles
- Willing to Organize: No
- Willing to Assist an Organizer: Yes
- Topics of Interest: aerospace, vehicle simulation, guidance, navigation, and control, and getting NASA support for Julia (they’ve already funded 1 Julia project!)

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/3 "2017-10-07T00:03:34Z")

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- Location: Irvine (essentially Los Angles)
- Willing to Organize: Sure. [https://www.meetup.com/Southern-California-Julia-Users/](https://www.meetup.com/Southern-California-Julia-Users/)
- Willing to Assist an Organizer: Yes
- Topics of Interest: Slap DiffEqs in there, either in methods or applications, and I’m in.

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 6:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/4 "2017-10-07T06:34:15Z")

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- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Willing to Organize: Yes
- can provide room w/ projector
- Topics of Interest: Economics, Bayesian Statistics, ~~Big~~ medium-sized 😛 data

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**Author:** ![tamasgal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamasgal/32/27946_2.png) [@tamasgal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tamasgal)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/5 "2017-10-07T10:00:59Z")

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- **Location** : Erlangen, Germany (near Nuremberg)
- **Willing to Organise** : Yes
- can provide room with Projector (at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)
- **Topics of Interest:** Physics, Big Data, Machine Learning

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**Author:** ![tpoisot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tpoisot/32/19812_2.png) [@tpoisot](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tpoisot)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/7 "2017-10-07T14:49:46Z")

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- **Location** : Montréal (Canada)
- **Willing to organize** : I’d rather not
- **Willing to assist as an organizer** : yes
- **Topics of interest** : ecology, graph theory, machine learning, distributed computing, using Julia for teaching
- Can provide (small) room with (bad) projector, or help find decent locations

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**Author:** ![brilhana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brilhana/32/2112_2.png) [@brilhana](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brilhana)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/8 "2017-10-07T15:27:09Z")

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- Location: Montréal, QC, Canada
- Willing to Organize: Yes
- Willing to Assist an Organizer: Yes
- Topics of Interest: Econometrics, Nonlinear Optimization, Machine Learning

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**Author:** ![hstahlmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hstahlmann/32/2113_2.png) [@hstahlmann](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hstahlmann)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/9 "2017-10-07T15:31:22Z")

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- Location: Germany
- Willing to Organize: Yes
- Willing to Assist an Organizer: Yes
- Topics of Interest: Machine Learning, Bayesian Stats, Probabilistic Programming, Topological Data Analysis

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**Author:** ![cstjean](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cstjean/32/1444_2.png) [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/10 "2017-10-07T17:02:57Z")

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What this thread lacks is a way to show interest as a participant. Like/private message?

I wonder if it wouldn’t be more interesting to do “scientific computing” meetups, along the same vein as PyData.

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**Author:** ![jballanc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jballanc/32/328_2.png) [@jballanc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jballanc)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 5:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/11 "2017-10-08T05:40:29Z")

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> [@cstjean](#):
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> What this thread lacks is a way to show interest as a participant. Like/private message?

I personally would be glad to entertain a private message, but I think it might help for gauging interest/organizing locally if everyone who would be willing to attend a meet up (even if they can’t donate time organizing) posted here. Originally I was thinking of this thread as a poor-mans database of Julia devs (or at least Julia-curious) who are looking to get together.

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> I wonder if it wouldn’t be more interesting to do “scientific computing” meetups, along the same vein as PyData.

I’d definitely encourage anyone who does see this thread to reach out to a wider community than just Julia for meet ups and events. That said, I think there would still be use in having Julia-focused events since not everyone interested in Julia the language will have the same applications in mind.

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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/12 "2017-10-08T07:06:55Z")

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**Location:** Cambridge, MA  
**Willing to Organize:** Yes  
**Willing to Assist an Organizer:** Yes  
**Topics of Interest:** Physics, Big Data, Machine Learning, Buzz Words

// in the process of locking down a venue (was thinking thirsty ear pub on campus)

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Submit a talk proposal if you live in the greater camberville area 🙂

[https://goo.gl/forms/TkqilLHNaNKu2kP92](https://goo.gl/forms/TkqilLHNaNKu2kP92)

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**Author:** ![essenciary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/essenciary/32/210469_2.png) [@essenciary](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/essenciary)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/13 "2017-10-08T09:44:19Z")

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We’ve done a couple of meetings in Barcelona:

> **[Barcelona Julia Meetup | Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-Julia-Meetup/)**
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> Julia is a high-level dynamic programming language designed to address the requirements of high-performance numerical and scientific computing while also being effective for general-purpose programming, web use or as a specification language. Julia...

**Location** : Barcelona, Spain  
**Willing to Organize** : Yes  
**Coorganizers wanted** : Badly!  
**Topics of Interest** : Learning Julia, Data Science, Machine Learning, High performance computing, Julia for the web

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**Author:** ![chakravala](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chakravala/32/6832_2.png) [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/14 "2017-10-08T14:02:16Z")

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- **Location** : Greensboro, NC
- **Willing to Organize** : Possibly
- **Willing to Assist an Organizer** : Yes
- **Topics of Interest** : Pure & Applied Mathematics, Computer Algebra, Aerospace, Number Theory

A few months ago I already organized a presentation at university here and I am planning for another one, although it is aimed towards members of the math department here

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**Author:** ![crbinz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/crbinz/32/1919_2.png) [@crbinz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/crbinz)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/15 "2017-10-08T16:07:24Z")

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**Location** : Greater Washington, DC area  
**Willing to Organize** : Would prefer not to  
**Willing to Assist an Organizer** : Yes  
**Topics of Interest** : Aerospace; tracking and estimation; spacecraft guidance, navigation & control

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**Author:** ![viralbshah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/viralbshah/32/54_2.png) [@viralbshah](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/viralbshah)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/16 "2017-10-08T21:45:58Z")

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Actually, PyData (despite the Py in the name) is supposed to be inclusive of the larger theme of scientific computing and data science. We are working with NumFocus to have Julia tracks in PyData and make Julia more visible in PyData.

We can also do more with PyData meetups as well. Any suggestions along those lines are much appreciated. We need a couple of folks to help organize all this and help overcome the activation energy.

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**Author:** ![cce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cce/32/460_2.png) [@cce](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cce)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/17 "2018-03-10T11:40:07Z")

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Location: Chicago, IL  
Willing to Organize: Yes  
Willing to Assist an Organizer: Yes  
Topics of Interest: Healthcare, Database Access, Data Transformations

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**Author:** ![Seth\_Chandler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Seth\_Chandler](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Seth_Chandler)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/18 "2018-05-15T19:35:35Z")

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- **Location** : Houston, TX
- **Willing to Organize** : Possibly
- **Willing to Assist an Organizer** : Yes
- **Topics of Interest** : Anything really, but language fundamentals, graphics, Graphs (Networks), finance, game theory, politics (gerrymandering), natural language processing, machine learning
- **Objective** : Provide a local community that can help develop people’s understanding and usage of Julia  
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**Author:** ![amellnik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/amellnik/32/137_2.png) [@amellnik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/amellnik)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/19 "2018-05-15T20:44:19Z")

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We’ve had a few small meetups so far, but are always looking for more people to join!

- **Location** : Portland, OR
- **Willing to Organize** : Yes
- **Willing to Assist an Organizer** : Yes
- **Topics of Interest** : Anything Julia related, with a focus on the web and data.

Anyone who is interested please PM me here or on Slack and I’ll make sure to include you the next time we’re organizing one.

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**Author:** ![jekyllstein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jekyllstein/32/4157_2.png) [@jekyllstein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jekyllstein)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/20 "2018-05-15T21:24:42Z")

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Location: Boulder, CO  
Willing to Organize: Prefer not  
Willing to Assist an Organizer: Yes  
Topics of Interest: machine learning, cuda integration, random optimization projects (check out one github project around fast machine learning for specific use case: [https://github.com/Blackbody-Research/FCANN.jl](https://github.com/Blackbody-Research/FCANN.jl))

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**Author:** ![cosmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@cosmin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cosmin)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-are-julia-users-who-want-to-meet-up/6298/21 "2019-03-26T20:22:20Z")

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- **Location** : Bucharest, RO
- **Willing to Organize** : Yes
- **Willing to Assist an Organizer** : Yes
- **Topics of Interest** : Image Processing, Machine Learning, APIs, anything that is Julia-related
- **Objective** : Start a local community where people can learn and share their experience with Julia language (we have also just started a meetup group: [https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-Julia-Meetup/](https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-Julia-Meetup/))

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