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[admin] Lisp Education CD as ISO project
by Heow Eide-Goodman 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Hi there, LispNYC.org has created a free self-booting Lisp Education CD which contains: * 3 complete Lisp Deveopment Systems * 3 full length books * numbers of tutorials, references, etc. ...all in a single integrated environment. It debuted at Linux World Expo with almost 100 CDs given out to interested individuals. Someone enjoyed it so much, they came back the next day to give LispNYC.org a $20 donation! Anyway, the problem is that LispNYC is running on DSL and cannot host an ISO, which is why I'd like to include it on common-lisp.net. We expect anywhere between 2 and 10 downloads per week (currently a steady 3 requests per week) and I'd also be setting up a mailing list etc. But due to the fact that there exists within the CD: * copyrighted software (Allegro CL and LispWorks) * copyrighted work (Successful Lisp, OnLisp) and the fact that various authors specifically request that: * they retain copyright to their work * it not enter the 'public domain' * the CD remain free of charge ...the license is unique in that the CD expressively remains free (as in without cost) yet not fall into the public domain or under a different license. This of course dose not preclude some of the seperate works falling under a more lenient license. Thus only LispNYC.org, the ALU and myself can legally distribute it. We, of course, have explicit permission from every author to distribute the content found on the CD, which was no small task. :-) Thanks, - Heow

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[admin] Arch
by Yurii A. Rashkovskii 06 May '04

06 May '04

By the way, how could I use Arch on common-lisp.net? Regards, Yurii.

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[admin] maillist administration
by Christian Lynbech 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

I am unsure on how to access the maillist administrators interface. I assume that I, as cparse administrator, is set up as administrator also for the cparse mailinglists. I have tried giving my UNIX account password but authorization keeps failing. Am I supposed to know the password from some information available somewhere, or could somebody reset the pasword for me? ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic(a)hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)

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[admin] added tbnl; owned by eweitz
by root 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Add successful at 2004.03.30.09.06.

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[admin] Project application: TBNL
by Edi Weitz 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Hi! I'd like to apply for another project. Its name will be TBNL. It's yet another web framework (based on mod_lisp and cl-modlisp). It will be released under a BSD license. Like with my other projects I will mainly use your mailing lists but it is likely that in the near future there'll be at least one other developer so we might need CVS as well. Thanks in advance, Edi.

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[admin] added hansa2; owned by mevins
by root 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Add successful at 2004.03.24.18.04.

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[admin] added alpaca; owned by mevins
by root 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Add successful at 2004.03.24.18.03.

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[admin] project proposals: Alpaca, Hansa2
by mikel evins 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Two of my open-source projects, Alpaca and Hansa2, are hosted at Sourceforge. Another, Clotho, is hosted at common-lisp.net. I like common-lisp.net better so far. Alpaca and Hansa2 are both written in Common Lisp. Alpaca is a Mac OS X (Aqua) application written in OpenMCL. It's an extensible word processor for prose authors, supporting rich text and WYSIWIG page layout. At the same time, it's an extensible Lisp environment with Emacs-style extensible key-bindings and a Common Lisp API. Alpaca has a Lisp listener. Hansa2 is an implementation of the trade game Hansa, invented by the economist David D. Friedman. The game is generally similar to games like Empire and Risk: the goal is to dominate the world. The great difference from other games is that in Hansa you expand, not by conquering your neighbors, but by persuading them to voluntarily join trade leagues, by making better offers than competing leagues. Hansa is also written in Common Lisp, and consists of a portable server and N platform-specific client applications (where N presently equals 1: there is an OS X client, but Windows and Linux clients are planned). Would common-lisp.net like to host these projects? If so, I'd be interested in moving them over from Sourceforge. ---------- "[W]e were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. Aren't you happy?" [Guy Steele, of Sun Microsystems Labs, about designing Java]

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[admin] new member for the lispfaq project
by Eric Marsden 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hi, Could you please add Nikodemus Siivola to the "lispfaq" project? Thanks, -- Eric Marsden <URL:http://www.laas.fr/~emarsden/>

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[admin] Possible creation of UncommonSQL project
by Anthony W. Juckel 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

I'm currently talking with one of the onShore people about possibly uploading their uncommonsql package to the common-lisp.net web site so that it may have a home for community development. It's looking likely that I'll be getting a CVS repository dump from them before too long. Here's the relevant project info (I don't have a member list as of now...its unclear as to whether or not the original maintainers will want to continue working on it): UncommonSQL, a database abstraction layer for Common Lisp providing both a functional interface as well as a CLOS object relational layer. The software is a fork from MaiSQL, and has been developed for a few years by onShore, Inc and it is released under a MIT/X-like software license. Here's the current copyright notice: Copyright (C) 1999 Pierre Mai Copyright (C) 2000-2001 onShore Development, Inc. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Except as contained in this notice, the name of the author shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the author. Currently Members: Anthony W. Juckel <awj(a)juckel.net>

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