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This page should be used to propose lightning talks for Strange Loop 2017. This event will be held on the evening of Friday, September 29, at Union Station in Grand EF from 8:30-10:00 pm. Talk proposals can be on any topic (subject to review and possible removal by conference organizers) and should be 5-7 minutes in length. To propose a talk, please add the name of the talk, a description, and your name (Twitter, Github, or other social networking profile links are allowed). Talks will be selected primarily based on a popular vote among attendees.

Please submit your talk by Wed, Sept 20th at 5 pm US Central time!

• Title by speaker - Description (short)
• TypeScript 101 by @fvcproductions - A short introduction to TypeScript and the benefits it provides to large-scale projects
• GraphQL in Practice by @nickvanw - An introduction to GraphQL and how it benefits GitHub internally and externally
• Continuously Delivering Safe Elm/Electron Apps by @dillonkearns - The story of creating a Continuous Delivery pipeline for Mobster and building tools for safe interop with Elm, Electron and TypeScript to support it.
• Writing WebVR with Clojurescript by Andres Cuervo - A brisk walk through all the things I've had to do to be able to write web-based virtual reality experiences in Clojurescript
• Home Automation without the cloud by @balloob - Short introduction to Home Assistant, one of the biggest open source home automation frameworks.
• Strategy Factories by @melanchroes - A simple composite design pattern for maximum flexibility in picking the right algorithm given multiple options
• The Voldemort Effect by @litonico_ - A lighthearted, very short talk about why Voldemort didn't win and what that means for how we think about ideas in tech
• Why Not Haskell? by @cercerilla - A look at why Haskell is great, but hasn't gotten wider adoption in industry, plus a summary of lessons I've learned trying to teach and foster the St. Louis Haskell community
• Generating Music Functionally with Alda by @dave_yarwood - A lightning-fast introduction to the music programming language Alda, leading into a demo of how to use inline Clojure code to generate random bongo patterns in an Alda score.
• striking out on your own by @wyc - How to get clients and sling code for them without falling flat on your face.
• Building an Elm-Elixir Course Notes App by [@jxxcarlson] (https://github.com/jxxcarlson) - How make Elm talk to Phoenix, Asciidoctor.js, and MathJax.js to create complex, sometimes technical documents while increasing author and reader happiness.