<@URBUCJA8J> Hi! I'm glad you asked that. Me and a...

# arrow

[mattmoore]

@Sagar Suri Hi! I'm glad you asked that. Me and a few folks have been thinking about practical programming education with Arrow.

I'm a CTO in Chicago who's very enthusiastic about FP and Arrow. We're starting up a new podcast and blog that will include discussions and tutorials on practical functional programming with Arrow. I'm also currently running a startup, and we are planning to implement Arrow in our product. We have decided to create a documentary about our startup, and how Arrow is helping us maintain sanity.

In the interest of helping promote FP + Arrow, I wanted to reach out and see if anyone is interested in interviewing with us on our podcast. Remote discussions are an option, but we're also willing to travel to interview folks! We are hoping to help bring stronger awareness to FP and Arrow - benefits, challenges and how to design a functional system with Arrow. The podcast is launching early next year at http://lambda.show. If anyone's interested, please feel free to reach out to me! You can reach me here on kotlinlang or by email: [e-mail]. My twitter handle is mattmoore_io. We're very friendly, and would be more than happy to speak with folks from any background who have a passion for FP with Arrow.

[Sagar Suri]

I am really excited and looking forward to the podcasts and tutorials 👏

[mattmoore]

Thanks! We’re excited too! I’ll message again once we launch!

[raulraja]

Matt, I’ll be happy to speak in your podcast regarding anything Arrow if you ever need me to and I think so will be other maintainers and contributors as you develop this initiative. Count us in for anything you need.

[raulraja]

For Kotlin Koans related exercises you should coordinate with the 47 deg team as we are bringing Arrow exercises in courses to IDEA similar to the IDEA EDU edition ones and we will have the koans as a free resource for the community

[raulraja]

What I mean is that we are already investing in the education platform for it and some of the content and whatever you end up using in the community can be derived from it or developed alongside or just be it in a collaborative effort.

[raulraja]

We have a design team that is gonna make illustrations and bring this concepts more accessible to everyone and we should take advantage on how we present this exercises to the community so there is enough visual context to understand the concepts

[Sagar Suri]

Awesome! @raulraja This is going to be super exciting and fun. Can’t wait to try out the exercises and get practical experience in no time. 👏

[simon.vergauwen]

+1 I’d happy to help and I am always happy to talk about the code I’ve written in Arrow 😄

[pakoito]

I’m also in, if you’re around London at some point 😄

[mattmoore]

Thanks @raulraja and everyone! You folks are amazing! I’m very interested in collaborating and helping with the Arrow team on these efforts. As we get ready to start filming early next year we’ll reach out and I know we’ll have some great conversations.

I wanted to thank the whole Arrow team for the work you’ve all done. Being originally from a Haskell and Scala background, I really enjoy Kotlin and Arrow was a wonderful addition to that journey.

[mattmoore]

@pakoito I may be in London some time next year. I’m not yet sure when yet but I will definitely let you know and would love to film with you for our podcast and documentary if that works out.

[pakoito]

brilliant 😄