The Rolling Scopes Conference
1st February 2015, Minsk
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The Rolling Scopes : Minsk front-end/JavaScript developer community.
We had a great time together at numerous meetups and workshops. Now we are going bigger with a
conference
featuring amazing speakers, great talks and awesomeness of all kinds.
We'll do our best organizing this event so don't even think about missing it!
This conference is made by developers who don't seek any profit for developers looking for some fun.
Let’s Roll!
*Welcome! (Belarusian)
Speakers
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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer specializes in JavaScript and web technologies. He blogs at 2ality.com, teaches web development for ecmanauten.de and organizes Munich’s JavaScript user group. Axel has been programming since 1985, developing web applications since 1995 and held his first talk on Ajax in 2006. In 1999, he was technical manager at a German internet startup that later expanded internationally. He has done extensive research into programming language design and has followed the state and future of JavaScript since its creation.
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Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie is a web pioneer, a standards activist, a politician for The Pirate Party of Norway, and, as of 2013, the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software.
He is best known for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994.
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Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine. He runs responsive Web design workshops, online workshops and loves solving complex performance problems in large companies.
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Martin Naumann
Martin is open source contributor and web evangelist by heart from Zurich with a decade experience from the trenches of software engineering in multiple fields. He works as a software engineer at Archilogic in front- and backend. He devotes his time to moving the web forward, fixing problems, building applications and systems and breaking things for fun & profit. Martin believes in the web platform and is working with bleeding edge technologies that will allow the web to prosper.
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Juha Paananen
With his 15 years of experience he has figured out something about the dos and don'ts of software development. Right now, functional programming seems to be one of the dos, while Javascript remains one of the musts. In particular, Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) seems to be a perfect fit for tackling the problems related to keeping a complex and highly asynchronous application codebase nice and readable. Juha is the author of Bacon.js - the FRP library for Javascript. He uses it at work every day to create modern web apps for his clients.
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Gregor Adams
Gregor is a self-taught web developer with a strong focus on CSS. He works as a front-end developer and architect at SinnerSchrader. Gregor is very active on codepen where he shows a lot of abstract CSS experiments. While he has no special focus when is comes to CSS his most impressive works are related to 3d shapes or fractals. Gregor speaks at conferences and meetups with a strong urge to teach or help other developers. He pushes his own limits every day, staying up to date with the latest specs, finding fixes for browser quirks or trying to do the impossible.
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Dmitry Lomov
Dmitry Lomov is a software engineer at Google Munich.
He contributes to V8 and Blink and serves as V8 representative at TC39 (Ecmascript Standardization Committee).
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Kiryl Dziamura
Fond of obvious ux and crazy animations. The big fan of "Bees and bombs" ideology.
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Andrei Listochkin
Andrey builds web applications for about 8 years, and he is an active member of JavaScript, Node, and Mozilla Rust communities in Ukraine. He speaks at conferences, does trainings, takes part in coding competitions and hackathons, and co-hosts Frontend UA hangout. Currently Andrey works at DataRobot - a data science company in Kiev, Ukraine.
Language
We offer simultaneous translation of all the talks to English or Russian. Headsets will be available free of charge, but we'll have to hold your passport or driver's license for the duration of the conference.
Workshops
The Saturday before the main conference will be dedicated to a series of workshops. Your ticket for the conference does not grant you admission to the workshops. Space being limited, please only register if you are sure to attend. Please, sign up for updates to receive a notification when registration will start.
Planned workshops:
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WebGL via Martin Naumann
The web is transforming into a more interactive, more powerful platform every day.
Yet we’re rarely using its full potential – for instance by using impressive and powerful 3D visualisations to convey better visual representations.
In this workshop I will show a few case studies using WebGL for data visualisation of source code repositories, interactive models of apartments with realistic furniture, traffic visualisation.
The workshop will also talk about potential pitfalls and performance bottlenecks and how to overcome them – using Three.js as an example.
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Node.js via Andrei Listochkin
Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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ReactJS via Viktor Khomyakov
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Just the UI: Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
Virtual DOM: React uses a virtual DOM diff implementation for ultra-high performance. It can also render on the server using Node.js — no heavy browser DOM required.
Data flow: React implements one-way reactive data flow which reduces boilerplate and is easier to reason about than traditional data binding.
Viktor teaches you how to use React in your own project.
Venue
Minsk is the capital and the largest city in Belarus with population over 2 million. Minsk hosted IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in 2014. See more
The conference takes place in the IBB conference center (pr. Gazety Pravda, 11)
Afterparty
Stay put after the talks, we'll party hard right there at IBB, beer and snacks included.
