Zig Day: Bristol, UK

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Hey everyone! I’m organizing (with a few friends) a Zig Day in Bristol in the UK.

For anyone unfamiliar with this format, take a look here. Information about this specific Zig Day will be posted here.

We’re hoping to run the first event around a month from now, hopefully in Bristol Central Library although that’s subject to change. If you’re interested, please do subscribe to email notifications or follow the RSS feed (both on the event page linked above) to learn about events as we schedule them.

For anyone who doesn’t know me, I’m a member of the Zig “core team” – I work on the Zig compiler full-time. If anyone is interested to learn about the juicy compiler internals, I’m sure I’ll inevitably start showing people how things work under the hood. Also helping to organise this is my friend Silver (you might know her as @silversquirl), who is very experienced with Zig and systems programming. She’s willing to help out people who are just starting out with Zig – in other words, this event is explicitly beginner-friendly, so don’t be put off if you’re new to Zig!

If you’re interested in this event, please do let us know by leaving a comment here! Nothing formal, it’d just be useful for us to know how many people are considering attending.

Thanks everyone – see you in September!

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I’d be keen for a UK meetup :slight_smile: I’m based in London but would still consider attending a Bristol meetup if I’m available.

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That feeling when you check out the bridge in the Bristol Zig Day banner and… The Zig Zag appears

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The journey from south east London to Bristol is quite a trek. I’m considering it, but I feel like a 2 1/2 hour drive each way stretches the idea of a day trip.

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Nice to see a UK meetup! Would like to attend, but from Manchester 3.5 hours each way would mean staying a night. Not ruling it out but makes it less likely for me

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Yeah, it’s unfortunate that transport is such a nightmare. If there turned out to be a large number of people who wanted to attend but found the timings too tight, perhaps we’d consider a later start to make same-day travel a little more feasible – so, everyone, please do also flag up if a later start would make it easier for you to attend!