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With Sergey Tihon on vacation this week, I’ve collated a one off alternative F# Weekly roundup, covering some of the highlights from another busy week in the F# community.

News in brief

• NYC based stealth F# start up Jet.com raised $25 million!
• MBrace framework is one of the 20 finalists selected by Founders Game
• How a startup in the real-estate industry uses F# type providers to greatly simplify data access
• The F# Logo project has reached colour selection:

Events

This week has seen meetups in Nashville, Raleigh, Portland, Washington DC, Stockholm and London:

• Game Development in F# with Andrea Magnorsky (Nashville & DC)
• Building reactive, multi-view applications with WebSharper + UI.Next with Adam Granicz (Portland)
• Riemann & F#-monitoring with Henrik Feldt  (Stockholm)
• Data science with F#: Social network analysis with Evelina Gabasova (London)
• F#/Analytics Lab (Raleigh)

The Multi-hit brick! #fsharp #gamedev #breakout @DCFSharp @silverSpoon pic.twitter.com/nVPxUrhIZg

— Wesley Wiser (@wesleywiser) September 25, 2014

Recordings

• Contributing to F# with Mårten Rånge on .Net Rocks
• Vulpes: A functional approach to deep machine learning on the GPU by Rob Lyndon (Strangeloop)
• Data Science with F# Social Network Analysis – Evelina Gabasova (slides)
• Building reactive, multi-view applications with WebSharper + UI.Next – Adam Granicz

Upcoming meetups

• F# for Games Development  with Andrea Magnorsky (Toronto on Sep 30)
• Type Providers with Hadi Eskandari (Sydney on Oct 7)
• Mona Lisa, F# and Azure (San Fran on Oct 14)
• "Picasquez vs Velasso" Classic Mash-up Hands On (London on Oct 15)
• Event-driven services via F# & EventStore with Lev Gorodinski (NYC on Oct 16)
• Functional Kats (Dublin on Oct 21)

Upcoming Conferences

• Progressive F# Tutorials (New York on Sep 2-3) & after party!
• Xamarin Evolve (Atlanta on Oct 6-10)
• Functional Finance (London on Oct 31)
• QCon SF (San Francisco on Nov 3-5)
• Code Mesh (London on Nov 4-5)
• Progressive F# Tutorials (London on Nov 6-7)
• Build Stuff (Lithuania on Nov 19-23)
• FP Days (Cambridge on Nov 20-21)
• NDC London (on Dec 1-5)

Projects

• New Recommended Guidelines for F# Projects, Packages and Namespaces from the F# Open Engineering Group
• Paket – a new Package Dependency Manager for .Net can now reference file dependencies directly from GitHub
• F# Data 2.0.15 released
• CloudSharper 0.9.19.3 released
• Ariadne – an F# library for Gaussian Processes (blog)

Blogs

• Plotting F# Data Using Excel Interop: Soaring Life Expectancy Edition – Bernard Shoe
• F# you've left me a broken man – Stephen Kennedy
• Calling An F# Library From C# to Import A CSV File Into SQL Server - Tony Truong
• Who wins this battle? Python or F# for rapid ease of use for a newbie software engineer with videos - Bryan
• Xamarin.Forms and F# in a Minute - Troy Kershaw
• Preparing Azure Cloud Service for running F# Compiler Service -Simon J.K. Pedersen
• Curried vs Uncurried Functions - Richard Dalton
• F# Coding Breakfasts & Lunches: let’s code together! - Mathias Brandewinder
• Faking a continuously Polling Consumer with scheduled tasks - Mark Seeman
• Consuming Azure ML web api endpoint from an array - Jamie Dixon

FsiBot

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— fsibot (@fsibot) September 22, 2014

Have a great week!