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[boston-lisp] [REMINDER] Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-08-30 Eli Barzilay on Hygienic Macros for Beginners and Power Users
by fare＠tunes.org 18 Aug '12

18 Aug '12

Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-08-30 Eli Barzilay on Hygienic Macros for Beginners and Power Users http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, August 30th 2012 at 1800 at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room). Eli Barzilay will speak about Hygienic Macros for Beginners and Power Users. Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. Speakers to be announced. 1 Eli Barzilay on Hygienic Macros for Beginners and Power Users Eli Barzilay will explain how you too can enjoy the power and safety of hygienic macro to build the syntactic abstractions with which to elegantly express your programs. Eli Barzilay, who teaches and does research at NEU, is one of the maintainers of PLT Racket. 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. The slots for next meeting are still open. Step up and come talk about your pet project! Contact me at fare at tunes.org. 3 Time and Location The Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, August 30th 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://common-lisp.net/project/ boston-lisp/ 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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[boston-lisp] Boston Lisp Meeting: 2012-07-24 lightning talks and dinner
by Faré 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

OK, so it's a bit late to organize a full Boston Lisp Meeting for July. Instead, let's just have a lightning talk extravaganza Tuesday next week 2012-07-24, at 6pm. Pavel, can we reserve the Star Room that evening? Otherwise, we'll find another room... Lightning talk format: You have 5 minutes to speak. One ding at 4 minutes to warn you, and one gong at 5 minutes and you must stop talking. Then 2 minutes for questions while the next speaker plugs in his computer. Rehearse early, rehearse often -- you can rehearse 6 times in half an hour! I'm candidate for one lightning talk on a few cool hacks made possible with recent ASDF releases. Can you email me to submit me your lightning talk proposals? PS: many people have expressed interest in a recording of Kalman Reti's talk. What we have is not perfect but it will hopefully be of interest to you. Inaudible questions have been cut out. http://people.csail.mit.edu/reti/SymbolicsTalk28June2012.m4v https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bw4Wz8Ir0pl1cmNRaHYwdU1wdXM —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org The politicians have a most touching faith in technology — that it can make up for any dumb thing the politicians decide to do. — John McCarthy

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[boston-lisp] [REMINDER] Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-06-28 Kalman Reti on Symbolics Lisp Machines
by fare＠tunes.org 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-06-28 Kalman Reti on Symbolics Lisp Machines http://fare.livejournal.com/168016.html A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, June 28th 2012 at 1800 at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room). Kalman Reti will speak about Symbolics Lisp Machines. Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. Speakers to be announced. 1 Kalman Reti on Symbolics Lisp Machines Kalman Reti will talk about some of the history of the Lisp machine and some features of the Symbolics Lisp machines that were unique, including both hardware and software features. He'll discuss how the Alpha emulator works and Brad Parker's hack to make it run on 64bit modern machines. Finally he'll demonstrate Genera running on his laptop. Kalman Reti worked for Symbolics from 1982 through 1992, mostly on VLSI tools for Ivory but also writing low-level device support (e.g. a LMFS recovery utility, R/W optical drive support, LZW compressor, etc.) The last few years of that were spent doing customer consulting. After being laid off when Symbolics went into chapter 11, Kalman worked for Apple in Cambridge, first on MCL and later, after MCL was sold to Digitool, on Dylan. Kalman was hired after that by Symbolics Technology, Inc., who had acquired the assets of Symbolics from the bankruptcy court, to work on further productizing the emulator for the Alpha. This was used by John Mallery at MIT to run his document distribution system for the White House during the Clinton presidency. When the owners of that venture decided that a financial company had no business owning a computer company, a private individual bought the assets and Kalman spent 4 years as a "captive consultant" for him. Since 2002, when he ran out of money, I've worked for Ab Initio (doing nothing with lisp except emacs hacks). 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. The slots for next meeting are still open. Step up and come talk about your pet project! Contact me at fare at tunes.org. 3 Time and Location The Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, June 28th 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'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://common-lisp.net/project/ boston-lisp/ 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] June Meeting?
by Faré 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Did i say 29th? My bad. I meant Thursday, June 28th 2012. at 6pm at MIT 32-D463 (star). That's the date and location for the next Boston Lisp Meeting. Kalman Reti has volunteered to give a demo of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (Kalman, is this date OK for you?) I still propose we make it a potluck and/or order fest. Let's meet as early as 5:30 and order food for 7pm. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org One good Husband is worth two good Wives; for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued. — Benjamin Franklin On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Pavel Panchekha <me(a)pavpanchekha.com> wrote: >> June 29th > > > Uhh.... 28th?

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[boston-lisp] June Meeting?
by Faré 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Dear Boston Lisp hackers, I wanted to have a meeting on June 29th, but for various reasons, none of intended speakers could make it in the end. I have a room reserved though (same as last time). We could either: 1- meet there, have impromptu speeches and hacking sessions, and bring or order food, potluck style 2- meet at a food place instead. I propose 1, a formula we never tried, to see what gives. Any taker? —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. — John McCarthy

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[boston-lisp] [REMINDER] Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-05-17 Zach Beane on Quicklisp
by fare＠tunes.org 14 May '12

14 May '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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[boston-lisp] Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-05-17 Zach Beane on Quicklisp
by fare＠tunes.org 30 Apr '12

30 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 20 Apr '12

20 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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