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The New Conference on the Block: What is FUN OCaml?
All the details from the new FUN OCaml conference held in Berlin in 2024, which hosted multiple talks, workshops, and social activities.
Communications Officer
Making OCaml Mainstream: Support Our Open Source Work on GitHub
Tarides contributes to the OCaml community by performing maintenance, hosting community events, and introducing new features to the language. You can now support this work by sponsoring it on GitHub.
Communications Officer
Enhancing the OCaml.org Community Page: Boosting UX and UI Based on User Research
In March, the OCaml.org team at Tarides embarked on a mission to enhance the OCaml.org community pages. After engaging with the OCaml community, we identified several areas for improvement. Our goal was to boost the community's usability and visibility, ensuring it supported a wider audience and pro…
UX/UI Designer
We Host Our First OCaml Retreat in India!
Hacking retreats are great ways for programmers to connect, explore new ideas, and learn from each other. One of the most popular OCaml retreats is the much-loved Mirage retreat, organised annually in Morocco. But for us OCaml enthusiasts located elsewhere, the journey can be challenging (not to men…
Senior Software Engineer
Communications Officer
My experience at IndiaFOSS 2023: Community, Workshop, and Talks
There are plenty of exciting computer programming events happening in India, including the 5 day OCaml retreat that Tarides is hosting in Auroville this week – look out for future posts on that! Another great (and bigger!) event is the annual free and open source software conference IndiaFOSS orga…
Senior Software Engineer
Improving OCaml.org to Provide an Engaging UX and Trusted User Resources
The OCaml.org team, which includes members from Tarides, have been working hard to improve OCaml.org. In the first half of 2023, our primary focus was on the much-needed overhaul of OCaml.org's documentation and overall UX Design. We aspired to enhance user experience and accessibility throughout th…
Technical Writer
OCaml Survey: Developers' Perception, Interest, and Perceived Barriers
Tarides is conducting a survey targeting non-OCaml programmers to learn their thoughts about this functional programming language and uncover any misconceptions surrounding it. Please take a few mintues to fill it out if you haven't yet done so. This post shows our preliminary findings based on a re…
Technical Writer
International Disability Day 2023: Why It Matters
When I was in my early 20s, I developed a chronic illness that (amongst other things) has affected my mobility. Becoming disabled is an eye-opening experience, as it makes you acutely aware of two things: First, there are many ways in which society genuinely tries to help people with disabilities, a…
Communications Officer
More Than a Day: How Does Tarides Promote Women in Tech?
The aim of International Women’s Day is to raise awareness of gender inequalities and call for the empowerment of women worldwide. The goal is to forge a gender equal world and advance women’s equality in all forms. Within the field of technology, the focus is on elevating and advancing gender p…
COO
Tarides Sponsors Girls Can Code
The tech industry has long struggled with a lack of diversity. This existing imbalance combined with social and educational problems such as early gender bias still tends to prevent lots of people, including women, from entering the field. Girls Can Code aims to help young women learn programming an…
Communications Officer
OCaml.org Reboot: User-Centric Design & Content
Tarides is pleased to announce the launch of the updated community site, ocaml.org. Over the past year and a half, we have supported and collaborated with members of the OCaml community on the creation of an updated community website. We are proud to present new features and improvements that will b…
Principal Software Engineer
Tarides Partners with 50inTech!
50inTech Tarides is proud to have been recognised by 50inTech and featured on their website! 50inTech’s mission is to achieve a 50% representation of women in tech by 2050. To this end, 50inTech runs several amazing initiatives that generate opportunities for women looking to have successful caree…
Head of Human Resources
Communications Officer
Tarides at WomenHack Virtual Event
Tarides takes great pride in a diverse workforce and strives to continue bringing talented people to its team from around the globe. This is why Sonja Heinze, a Tarides software engineer, and the Head of HR, Héloïse Lutton, will attend WomenHack, an online event dedicated to recruiting more women …
Technical Writer
Tarides sponsors the Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference 2020
The Oxbridge Women in Computer Science conference is an annual one-day event hosted by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (UK). The conference is free and open to everyone from any discipline, regardless of gender identity. Its purpose is to spotlight the successes of women within computer sci…
