In this episode, Alex Miller (@puredanger) interviews Groovy gurus Guillaume Laforge (@glaforge) and Václav Pech (@vaclav_pech) during the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium.  Guillaume is the Groovy project lead and Václav is the leader of the GPars project.

Show links:

• The latest Groovy news on Groovy 1.8.4 and 2.0 beta 1
• GPars project

In this episode roving correspondent Mario Aquino (@marioaquino) interviews Ola Bini (@olabini) at the Ruby Midwest conference in Kansas City.  Ola has a long history with JRuby and other open source projects and has worked on his own languages Ioke and Seph as well.

News and upcoming events:

• New videos from Strange Loop 2011 are being released every week at InfoQ and all Strange Loop 2011 slides are available in GitHub.
• Clojure/West (@clojurewest) is a new Clojure conference on west coast from the creator of Strange Loop.  Clojure/West will take place March 16-17th, 2012 in San Jose, CA.
• Strange Loop 2012 (@strangeloop_stl) is currently in the early planning stages and will tentatively take place in downtown St. Louis from Sept 23-25th.  Save the date!