I would also like to see such a community. I've found it somewhat in the Julia community, which tends to lean heavily towards scientific computing and has a lo

I would also like to see such a community. I've found it somewhat in the Julia community, which tends to lean heavily towards scientific computing and has a lot of Ph.D.s, grad students, and Ph.D. dropouts. We just had JuliaCon last week, and the talks tended to be first about a problem domain (statistical modeling, optimization, natural language processing, finite element methods...) and secondarily about Julia. I loved it. If you're in the Chicago area, I'd encourage you to drop by our Julia Meetup group, which has a similar format. Previous talks have been about solving problems in climate modeling, machine learning, and molecular dynamics, and I'm trying to line up talks later this summer about machine learning in psychology and MLE modeling of longitudinal econometric data. (All using Julia, of course.) The group is small, but the quality of discussion is very high. Join the group and you'll get an email when the next meeting is added to the calendar: http://www.meetup.com/JuliaChicago/ http://www.meetup.com/JuliaChicago/