July 2010 saw the kickoff of the San Francisco Bay Area F# User Group . Previous meetups have included Exploring F# from a C# developer's perspective and Erik Meijer on Fundamentalist Functional Programming . The next meetup is on January 11, with...

StackExchange has a useful thread on how to keep up-to-date with the F# community , some snippets from the answers below Richard Minerich's blog is good: http://fsharpcentral.com/ . Every week he publishes a very comprehensive "F# Discoveries This...

Johann Deneux and Giuseppe Maggiore have been putting together templates for F# games, libraries and applications for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) XNA . This extends Dan Mohl's great work on templates for list, panorama and vanilla applications. Like all...

The recent open code drop of the F# compiler and library source has led to quite a lot of activity. One of the things has been the emergence of a MonoDevelop plugin for F# , MonoDevelop is a cross-platform and open-source Integrated Development Environment...

I’ve had some contacts from interested F# users in DC about the possibility of setting up a user group in the area. If you're interested and would like to be put in touch, please drop me an email or comment-reply and I'll pass your contact details...

"Entire Websites as First-class F# Values" - Now that's a catch phrase I like! Adam Granicz is giving a talk on WebSharper sitelets tonight (Dec 21, 11am PST) at the online Community for F# , here is the abstract: Adam Granicz: Introducing WebSharper...

(From a posting on hubfs ) The health sciences team at Microsoft, in collaboration with Microsoft Research, is looking for a key designer/engineer on our team, responsible for significant architecture investments in a challenging and creative environment...

Following from my last blog post about a Russian form on hubfs , here's an announcement from Ukraine: The December meeting of Kiev ALT.NET will be held on the 23th December at 18:15. At this session we will be talk about F# - new modern...

Итак на hubFS.net теперь есть русскоязычный раздел . Спасибо Дону Сайму, за проявленный интерес к развитию русскоязычного комьюнити F#. Теперь можно задавать вопрос, на него ответить, поделиться новостью, мыслью, идеей по F# на русском языке...

I recall reading this on an email list in August 2000 and being struck by it. Now certainly a piece of history... Don

The F# team are looking for a world class developer to join the team in Redmond! Come and help us shape the future of F#! We are seeking a talented and highly motivated software engineer with experience in compilers, language tools and data-consumptive...

The guys at Extreme Optimization have released version 4.0 of their .NET math library . This time the library comes with 50 QuickStart samples for F#, including polynomials in F# , numerical integration in F# , optimization in F# , Fourier Transforms...

Readers of my blog know that from time to time I post articles related to F# jobs. Naturally, this particularly applies to my homeland, Australia! :-) In any case, the Australian startup company BuzzNumbers are looking for people with .NET, F# and...

Recently I gave a talk at TechEd Europe, in Berlin, entitled A Taste of F# - Today and Future , available below as slides + audio. If you don't get the player below, then here's the site with the raw WMV files . I was happy with how this talk went...

The F# New York City User Group has started recently, and the liftoff meetup is a week from now, next Monday, Dec 6 Location Microsoft, 6th floor 1290 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019 This first meeting of the New York City...

The next F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group is on next Wednesday, 24th Nov, featuring two great speakers - Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford. I'll be there, and am looking forward to it. Tomas Petricek : Writing concurrent applications using agents...

From time to time Microsoft in Redmond have positions open for software engineers specializing in compiler & tools development. For those internal to Microsoft, I'd like to mention that a job is currently showing on the jobs site, with this description...

Microsoft Solver Foundation 3.0 is out, and ready for use with F#: We pleased to announce the release of Microsoft Solver Foundation v3.0. The Express edition is available at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/solverfoundation . The Standard and Academic...

Joh over at F# in Game Development has been preparing to release Asteroid Hunter 3D , an XNA game for XBox 360. I've not played it myself, but next stage is a review process. Along the way he's released some utility code and modules that may be useful...

The Numerical Algorithms Group have recently released their NAG Library for .NET . To quote: The NAG Library for .NET contains mathematical and statistical methods developed by NAG experts to serve the growing number of application developers and users...

The long awaited Professional F# 2.0 is now available from Wrox! I got my copy from Talbott at PDC10, and have been greatly enjoying working my way through it, and I like everything I've seen. The book covers everything you need to know to get started...

Some of the recent announcements around F# have greatly expanded the number of people looking to dig into the language. One great resource for getting started with F# online is the online book called The F# Survival Guide , from CTO Corner. To quote...

[ Note: if installing F# for Mono, you must download and resign with mono.snk. ] We've just published a minor update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools release. (The free tools release includes the tools for using F# with Visual Studio 2008 and/or Visual Studio...

Right in time for the first F# in Education Workshop in Boston, I’m very glad to announce that the long-awaited source code drop for an F# 2.0 compiler and core library are now available, as part of the F# PowerPack . This release reinforces...

I am very pleased to report that a vision of the future of C# and Visual Basic was outlined today where they are moving to join F# in offering what I call language-integrated asynchronous programming support . This was outlined today at PDC10 by Anders...