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[boston-lisp] Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-05-17 Zach Beane on Quicklisp
by fare＠tunes.org 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-05-17 Zach Beane on Quicklisp http://fare.livejournal.com/166595.html A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, May 17th 2012 at 1800 at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room). Zach Beane will speak about Quicklisp. Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. James Knight will discuss his ideas on how Common Lisp hackers could better collaborate. François-René Rideau will present recent Common Lisp hacks including ASDF 2.21, λ-reader, inferior-shell, and more. 1 Zach Beane on Quicklisp Quicklisp is a library manager for Common Lisp. It works with your existing Common Lisp implementation to download, install, and load any of over 700 libraries with a few simple commands. http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ Zach Beane, also known as Xach, is a Common Lisp hacker known for the cool toys he builds and his "just do it" attitude. 2 Lightning Talks At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" each followed by 2 minutes for questions and answers. James Knight will discuss his ideas on what Common Lisp hackers could do to improve how they share software. François-René Rideau will present recent Common Lisp hacks: xcvb, asdf, package-renaming, asdf-encodings, asdf-bundle, λ-reader, reader-interception, inferior-shell, rpm, fare-memoization, fare-utils. 3 Time and Location The Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, May 17th 2012 at 1800 (6pm) at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room). The Star conference room, MIT 32-D463 on the fourth floor of the Ray and Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge MA 02139. NB: there are two sets of elevators, you want to use those on the south-western side, further away from Main St. MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32 Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stata+Center,+Vassar+Street,+Cambridge,+MA Many thanks go to Professor Gerald J. Sussman for arranging for the room, and to MIT for welcoming us. 4 Dinner We don't have any sponsors to offer us dinner, but we're big boys and can provide for ourselves. Before we start the conference, we'll organize a big pizza order, where those who want can chip in; after the conference is when we'll eat it. 5 More about the Meeting We are resuming the Boston Lisp Meeting after a hyatus of over a year and a half. We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all the other details are at: http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html Volunteers to give Lightning Talks are also sought. http://fare.livejournal.com/143723.html For more information, see our web site http://boston-lisp.org/ For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or subscribe to our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting Please forward this information to people you think would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. My apologies if this announce gets posted to a list where it shouldn't, or fails to get posted to a list where it should. Feedback welcome by private email reply to fare at tunes.org.

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Re: [boston-lisp] 2012-05-17: Boston Lisp Meeting with Xach!
by oconnore＠gmail.com 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Great, I have this on my calendar. I, as a non-organizer, like the idea of pizza being available for a fee. Eric O'Connor

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[boston-lisp] 2012-04-19: Boston Lisp Dinner
by Faré 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Let's meet next Thursday at 6pm for a chinese dinner amongst Lispers and friends, at Mary Chung in Central Square, Cambridge MA, for a Boston Lisp dinner. Please email me or send me a text message at 617 575 9012 to confirm you're coming so I can reserve tables. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. — Edgar Watson Howe On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:53, Kent M Pitman <kent(a)nhplace.com> wrote: > Did you decide if you're doing the 4/19 dinner?

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Re: [boston-lisp] boston-lisp Digest, Vol 48, Issue 2
by Nic M 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

I will be there! Nic > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:14:57 -0400 > From: Far? <fahree(a)gmail.com> > To: boston-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > Cc: Kent M Pitman <kent(a)nhplace.com> > Subject: [boston-lisp] 2012-04-19: Boston Lisp Dinner > Message-ID: > <CAN7nBXcCDRgZaWW7bwzK5+tgS10_XqtVpDXe5GZaOiWs4d-f9Q(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Let's meet next Thursday at 6pm for a chinese dinner amongst Lispers > and friends, > at Mary Chung in Central Square, Cambridge MA, for a Boston Lisp dinner. > > Please email me or send me a text message at 617 575 9012 to confirm > you're coming so I can reserve tables. > > ??? ? Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau ?Reflection&Cybernethics? > http://fare.tunes.org > Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. > ? Edgar Watson Howe > > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:53, Kent M Pitman <kent(a)nhplace.com> wrote: > > Did you decide if you're doing the 4/19 dinner? > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:13:24 -0400 > From: Zach Beane <xach(a)xach.com> > To: Far? <fahree(a)gmail.com> > Cc: boston-lisp(a)common-lisp.net, Kent M Pitman <kent(a)nhplace.com> > Subject: Re: [boston-lisp] 2012-04-19: Boston Lisp Dinner > Message-ID: <877gxja9uj.fsf(a)aliengleams.portland.xach.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Far? <fahree(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > Let's meet next Thursday at 6pm for a chinese dinner amongst Lispers > > and friends, > > at Mary Chung in Central Square, Cambridge MA, for a Boston Lisp dinner. > > > > Please email me or send me a text message at 617 575 9012 to confirm > > you're coming so I can reserve tables. > > I intend to be there, see you then. > > Zach > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > boston-lisp mailing list > boston-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp > > > End of boston-lisp Digest, Vol 48, Issue 2 > ****************************************** >

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[boston-lisp] 2012-05-17: Boston Lisp Meeting with Xach!
by Faré 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

The Boston Lisp Meetings are BACK! On Thursday, May 17th 2012, Zach Beane will come present us Quicklisp. We'll meet at 17:30 at MIT 32-D463, the Star room at the Stata Center, courtesy of Professor Gerry Sussman. Two slots are available for lightning talkers, though I will gladly take one of them if there aren't enough candidates. I'll send an official announcement when I have a bit more information. I don't know if this will be possible at this particular venue, but if you're planning to come, what do you think of a plan whereby we order a lot of pizza to eat on the spot, available for who pays a fee of say $10? Another plan is for those who are interested to invade Mary Chung after the meeting. Also, I'm looking for someone interested in recording the event and taking responsibility for actually posting each of the talks on one of the usual sites. Any taker? Finally, I'm always looking for speakers. Are you interested in speaking? Do you know anyone who is interested or interesting? PS: Sorry, no conference and meeting for April. I didn't try hard enough early enough for it to happen. However, if enough of you are interested, we can meet, say on April 19th, and have a dinner at Mary Chung or the CBC. Respond on the list if that tempts you. Of course, a co-organizer would be great for times I'm failing... any volunteer? —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — G.K. Chesterton

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