<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:baseline">Hope you&#39;ve all enjoyed the summer!  Our next meeting is on Monday 17th September at MadLab’s <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Edge+St,+Manchester+M4+1HN/53.4866767,-2.2389383/@53.4852115,-2.2400216,17z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x487bb1b8c4c72785:0x14932c7f3f87fa2!2m2!1d-2.2363568!2d53.4841714!1m0!3e2" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(182,96,33);border-left-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(182,96,33);text-decoration-line:none;outline:0px">PLANT NOMA</a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:baseline">(Redfern, Dantzic Street, NOMA, M60 0AE).</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:baseline">The meeting starts at 7pm (doors open a little earlier, we aim to start by 7:05pm).</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:baseline">Please <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lambdalounge-clojure-workshop-tickets-49803651061" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(182,96,33);border-left-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(182,96,33);text-decoration-line:none;outline:0px">register</a> to let us know you’ll be attending.</p><hr style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:18px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:baseline">Come and learn some some Lisp with us! Clojure is a powerful dynamically typed language with a strong focus on immutability. It runs on the Java virtual machine, making interoperability with Java code easy. It’s not just a back-end language, though - there’s also a ClojureScript dialect which can be compiled to JavaScript, so you can use it for your full stack.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:baseline">This month, we’re running a workshop where we’ll help you set up a Clojure development environment and run through some simple exercises to get you started. No experience required, but <b>please bring your laptop</b>!</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:baseline">If you’re a more experienced Clojure developer, feel free to come and help out or work on your own project!</p><hr style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:18px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:helvetica;vertical-align:baseline">This event is generously sponsored by <a href="https://www.equalexperts.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(182,96,33);border-left-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(182,96,33);text-decoration-line:none;outline:0px">Equal Experts</a>, a network of talented, experienced software consultants, specialising in agile delivery. Equal Experts will be providing refreshments!</p></div></div>