About Scicloj
What
Scicloj is an open source group and community building project. It focuses on helping Clojure grow into new fields, use cases, and professions.
While it began with the focus on data science and scientific computing, throughout the years, it expanded its scope to the broader problem of Clojure growth.
There are various places where activities move forward (for more info check the Where section), and they are all open to discussion and contribution.
Who
We are Clojurians coming from very different backgrounds and with very different levels of knowledge around Clojure, data, science, and other domains.
Everyone is welcome to contribute, to consume and to use Scicloj however they like.
Why
As data practitioners, we wish our work to be simple and easy. We wish to have elegant and dynamic ways to expess ourselves, explore, and build robust systems. Functional programming and Lisp offer promising ideas to support that, and these ideas meet in quite a pragmatic way – and in harmony – in Clojure.
While Clojure already covers the common needs for typical data problems, it surely needs to keep growing with the depth and breadth of diverse domains, use cases, and communities.
Making that happen is a technical challenge as well as a social one. It requires persistent work of open-souce collaboration and community buiilding.
How
Scicloj creates broad discussions, where community members can reason together about their common goals.
At the same time, it maintains dedicated task groups that can have discussion and collaboration around certain topics.
In addition to textual, everyday discussions, Scicloj encourages meetings in small groups, as well as larger gatherings.