You do not have to be an expert to join us, you just need to be interested in what you read here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming</a> We get together once a month (every second Monday of the month) to discuss functional programming concepts and languages e.g. Haskell, Clojure, Scala, Erlang etc.