Some Words about the ReasonConf Attendees and Community

The date for ReasonConf 2018 is coming closer but we still didn’t have the chance to talk about the Reason community and especially about the people you will meet at the conference.

Software and technology is only as strong as the people behind it. Building a productive and friendly ecosystem requires strong social and open source skills.

And let’s be honest here: especially in JavaScript, it’s quite hard to find the right candidate who satisfies all the technical, social and idealistic needs.

Let us explain why you, either as a company or individual, might be interested to join our conference and why it’s worth to be a sponsor.

But first of all: What is Reason and why should I care as a company?

The Reason project tries to tackle several important pain points in the React & JavaScript community:

What companies care about Reason & OCaml?

Now let’s talk about the community and conference attendees

There will be around 180 attendees at the conference. Most of them are fluent with ReactJS and also see the bad parts of pure JavaScript codebases. They are enthusiastic about technology and put a considerable amount of time and effort to make the Reason ecosystem better on every release.

The background of our community members is vast. Many of them were on the lookout for a functional language which is also more approachable for their coworkers. They tried Haskell, ClojureScript, PureScript, Elm, Scala, Elixir and other similar languages, which don’t really fulfil the aspect of being “JavaScripty” enough to be easily understood by their colleagues. Luckily for us, some of them got stuck with Reason.

As the conference organizers, we have a personal interest to get as many of these great minds in one place, since we are also contributing to the Reason project and want to get the most out of it.

We invited experts such as Cheng Lou (Facebook), Jared Forsyth (Khan Academy), Keira Hodgkison (Culture Amp), Cristiano Calgagno (FB Infer Project), Sven Sauleau (Babel), and many more — to educate and inspire our attendees.

We believe that most of our attendees are interested in complex technical challenges and are motivated to push forward technical innovation for better products and better engineering.

So what’s the progress?

There are a few ideas which we can only make happen with stronger financial support, therefore we are looking for sponsors to make this event awesome.

If you are interested, please get in touch.

Patrick, Nik and Andrey

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