This is a high-level overview of the Clojure/West conference as of Dec 1, 2011. Everything is subject to change!

1. Training - March 12-15, 2012
Conference - March 16-17, 2012
San Jose, CA

2. San Jose Marriott
• Rooms - $119/night
• Valet parking - $15/night
• Wifi - free

3. Training
Mon, 3/12 Tues, 3/13 Wed, 3/14 Thu, 3/15
Intro to Clojure - Stuart Sierra, Aaron Bedra
Cascalog - Sam Ritchie
Clojure Web - Chris Granger Clojure Web - Chris Granger
Pallet - Hugo Duncan, Antoni
Batchelli

4. Clojure Web
Chris Granger - creator of Pinot, Noir, and Korma
2 day class - $1300 (includes breakfast, lunch, breaks)
Day 1 Day 2
HTTP and Ring SQL data
Routes NOSQL data
Templating ClojureScript
Cookies, validation Project time
Deployment

5. Pallet - Infrastructure
Automation
Hugo Duncan, Antoni Batchelli - Pallet developers
2 day class - $1300 (includes breakfast, lunch, breaks)
Topics
Functional infrastructure
Actions - run code on remote machines
Crates - action abstraction
Phases - configuration automation
Servers, groups - deploy to the cloud
Stevedore - Clojure scripting

6. Cascalog
Sam Ritchie - Cascalog committer, Twitter engineer
3 day class - $2000 (includes breakfast, lunch, breaks)
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Predicates Composition Debugging
Queries Generators TDD, Midje
MapReduce Optimization Big data
Sorting and Query reuse Toolchain
grouping Dynamic
Taps queries

7. Intro to Clojure
Clojure/Core - taught by members of Clojure/core TBD
3 day class - $2000 (includes breakfast, lunch, breaks)
Topics
Functional Java interop
programming Multimethods
Lisp syntax Macros
Sequence library OO revisited
Concurrency Clojure

8. Conference
Fri, 3/16 Sat, 3/17
Breakfast (provided) Breakfast (provided)
Morning keynote Morning keynote
Sessions (3 rooms) Sessions (3 rooms)
Sessions (3 rooms) Sessions (3 rooms)
Lunch (provided) Lunch (on your own)
Lightning talks Sessions (3 rooms)
Sessions (3 rooms) Sessions (3 rooms)
Break Break
Sessions (3 rooms) Afternoon keynote
Afternoon keynote
Dinner (on your own)
Evening BOFs or other event

9. Keynote Speakers
• Stuart Halloway
• Richard Gabriel (not yet confirmed)
• TBD
• TBD

10. Cost and Dates
Type Start End Cost
Early Dec 19, 2011 Jan 20, 2011 $450
Regular Jan 21, 2011 Feb 17, 2011 $550
Late Feb 18, 2011 Mar 15, 2011 $650
• CFP opens - Dec 5th, 2011
• CFP closes - Jan 6th, 2012
• Speaker notification - Jan 11th, 2012
• Training - March 12-15, 2012
• Conference - March 16-17, 2012

11. Hope to see you there!
Info: http://clojurewest.org
Twitter: @clojurewest
Mailing list:
Ideas or questions?
alex@thestrangeloop.com