The F# Open Engineering Group has an excellent new website and a blog post explaining How to Contribute to the F# Language, Compiler and Core Library Implementation, including impressive details on How you can contribute to the F# Language, Compiler and Core Library Why they currently ask you to work with us and send your contributions... Read more

  This week's post is a guest article writtten by Dmitry Sevastianov with help from Dmitry Morozov, two members of the F# community, about FSharp.Data.SqlClient, a fascinatingly simple and elegant technique to integrate T-SQL and F# in new ways, using the ever-awesome power of F# type providers. First, be warned - this post is NOT about LINQ! It is about how to do LINQ-like things, but using a technique that is much simpler yet better in certain ways, though with pros and cons. It is also an industry-relev[...]

 Tomorrow night (Wednesday) in Silicon Valley, the Bay Area F# Meetup has an event What we do with F#: Show and Tell: Let's see how everyone else is using F#! This evening will be organized as a series of short talks (10 mins and 20 mins), focused on practical, real-life applications of F#. Current Speakers  Darren Platt, 3D Genome Viewer Dmitry Morozov, SQL Command Type Provider Mathias Brandewinder, Charon: a Random Forest in F# Nick Sardo, Flight Simulator Wednesday, May 7, 2014 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM [Note[...]

 A new F# meetup is starting in Portland, OR!  The first session is scheuled for Saturday, May 17, a Hands on Introduction to Machine Learning with F#. Mathias Brandewinder (@brandewinder on Twitter) has graciously agreed to lead a three hour dojo giving a practical, hands-on, experience with F# and functional programming. We will be writing a machine learning classifier that recognizes hand-written numbers using F#. Who can resist? Come join us! (Location TBD; the party will continue over dinner and drink[...]

An F# meetup is starting up in the Los Angeles area! Tony Abell (@TonyAbell) has announced an informal "meet & greet" first meeting next Tuesday: If you would like to get involved, please register with the meetup and help spread the word! The Visual F# Team