Hello all, This year's edition of the EUROCAST International Conference, held biennially in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), features a new workshop on "Functional concurrency and distribution". If you or someone you know are working on a project that could show the EUROCAST attendance the power of functional programming, please consider submitting a 2-page abstract before OCTOBER 31st. If there's a local user group in your area that wouldn't mind receiving a copy of this call for papers, I would be grateful if you would forward this announcement. Details about the CFP and submission are to be found at: http://eurocast2017.fulp.ulpgc.es, and the description of the workshop is as follows: "The prominence of concurrent implementations and distributed deployments of software systems in all business areas is undeniable, and with the formulation of the 'Internet of Things' it is reaching massive dimensions. At the same time, the functional paradigm is gaining specific weight, and languages such as Erlang, Haskell, Elixir, Scala/Akka, Clojure... are increasing their popularity enormously. This situation provides new opportunities to evaluate the implementation of concurrent and distributed systems at a very large scale, and suggest new problems for the research community to solve. We encourage submissions related to actor-model concurrency, coming from any member of the functional programming community. We encourage submissions with academic significance and research relevance, but also with an industrial background, such as experience reports. We aim attendees to engage in presentations and discussions that will expose them to recent developments on research problems, new techniques and tools, novel applications, and lessons from users' experiences, as well as common areas relevant to the practice of functional concurrent and distributed programming." Thanks for your time and apologies if you receive this more than once! -- Laura M. Castro Universidade da Coruña http://www.madsgroup.org/staff/laura