In this episode, Mario Aquino (@marioaquino) interviews four people about diversity:

• Jen Myers (@antiheroine) - designer and developer at Relevance Inc
• Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik) - Rails committer, JumpstartLab instructor, nomad philosopher
• Dianne Marsh (@dmarsh) - entrepreneur and Scala developer
• Alex Miller (@puredanger) - Clojure developer and conference organizer

Show links:

• Strange Loop conference (@strangeloop_stl)
• Code Mash conference (@codemash)
• Girl Develop It
• Hackety Hack, Shoes
• Designing Hypermedia APIs
• Hungry Academy
• gSchool
• Anti-Oppression 101 talk
• CodeNow
• Ada Initiative
• Geek Feminism Wiki
• Gender ratio at Strange Loop blog

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!  

In this episode Alex Miller (@puredanger) interviews Stuart Sierra (@stuartsierra), Aaron Bedra (@abedra), and Chris Redinger (@redinger).  Stuart, Aaron, and Chris all work for Relevance and with Clojure/core on the evolution of Clojure and ClojureScript.  Stuart and Aaron are presenting Clojure workshops at Strange Loop 2011.  

Show links:

• Intro to Clojure - Stuart Sierra's workshop at Strange Loop
• Building Analytics with Clojure - Aaron Bedra's workshop at Strange Loop
• Clojure/conj - the Clojure conference
• "Practical Clojure" - from Apress, by Luke VanderHart and Stuart Sierra
• "Programming Clojure" - 2nd edition from Pragmatic Programmers, by Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra

In episode #4, Heath Borders (@heathborders) interviews Michael Galpin (@michaelg) from Bump Technologies about Android and mobile development in general.  Heath is speaking about testing iOS and Michael is delivering the Intermediate Android workshop (spots still available!).

Show links:

• Testing, Testing, iOS - Heath Border's Strange Loop talk
• Intermediate Android - Michael Galpin's Strange Loop workshop
• Android in Practice - Michael's book, currently in Early Access from Manning

In episode #2, Mario Aquino (@marioaquino) interviews Blake Mizerany (@bmizerany) and Noah Zoschke (@nzoschke) from Heroku.  Blake and Noah will be speaking at the Strange Loop conference in September.  

Mario talked to Blake and Noah about their talks at Strange Loop and recent news from Heroku about supporting Node.js and Clojure apps and hiring Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby.

Show links:

• "On Distributed Failures (and handling them with Doozer)" - Blake Mizerany's Strange Loop talk
• "Running Heroku on Heroku" - Noah Zoschke's Strange Loop talk
• Heroku hires Matz
• Clojure on Heroku

If you're interested in attending Strange Loop (St. Louis, Sept 18-20, 2011), register soon!  Tickets are going fast and less than 140 tickets remain.

Welcome to the first Strange Loop podcast! 

Links:

• Strange Loop web site
• Sessions
• Registration
• Call for presentations
• Sponsorship

Intro and outro music is: