The next F# User Group meeting on Boston will be tonight, Monday June 18, 2012 at MS NERD.Register here. Featured Speaker: Mathias Brandewinder Topic: Bumblebee in F# Description: In this talk, Mathias will discuss Bumblebee, an open source CodePlex project implementation of Artificial Bee Colony algorithms in F# (http://bumblebee.codeplex.com). Register: http://fsug.eventbrite.com

The next F#unctional Londoners' meetup has been announced!  It's a great topic, talking about how to apply F# and .NET programming to one of the booming areas of game development.  Sign up here: http://www.meetup.com/FSharpLondon/events/68564812/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1&_af_eid=68564812&_af=event   Yan Cui on F# and .NET in Social Gaming Thursday, June 28, 2012, 6:30 PM, The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120, Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP. London (map) The social gaming landscape often paints a picture of cloud co[...]

 The University of Pisa will be hosting a one-day workshop entitled F# for Education and Innovation on Tuesday 28th June 2012.  Please join us there! The workshop is preceded by an optional Introduction to F#  Tutorial, run by Antonio Cisternino at the University of Pisa, on 27th June  2012.   Topics at the workshop will include Strongly-Typed Programming for the Information-Rich World, Why F# for Finance, F# for Computer Science Education, F# for Science and Engineering, Parallel Programming with F#, and [...]

  I'm glad to mention that SkillsMatter will be running their Progressive F# Tutorials in New York City, 5 June 2012! This is a great opportunity for those on the East Coast of the USA to dive into learrning F#.  Some details are below, more details via the link above.   Join us for this 2-day, 2-track F# event, packed with hands-on tutorials covering the latest developments in the fast moving world of F# Programming. Whether new to F# or seasoned veteran, be ready for an action packed two day adventure. [...]

This is cross-posted from the F# team blog. Great to see this!   Training is an important part of adopting F# successfully in any large organization. There are several options for F# training currently available, but one recent addition is an online training course in F# by Pluralsight, authored by Oliver Sturm.  The material is available through a subscription -  details on subscriptions to this material can be found on the Pluralsight website. The sections and durations of the course are listed below, an[...]