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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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[boston-lisp] Fwd: LISP help
by Bruce Lewis 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Anybody available to help this guy out? He'll pay. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ron Farber <ron(a)fivestarit.com> Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:50 PM Subject: LISP help To: brlewis(a)ourdoings.com I have a system someone developed in LISP. I modified one chicken-theme file and the whole thing wont work now. I put the original back but it still is broken. I am willing to pay someone to help me get this back up ASAP. Can you help? ----------------- Ron Farber CEO Fivestar Information Technologies, Inc. http://FivestarIT.com <http://fivestarit.com/> (888) 932-6638 Toll-Free (310) 597-4365 Direct Extension (626) 755-1515 Mobile + Text ---- If you haven't already, please "Like" FivestarIT on Facebook at http://facebook.com/fivestarit

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[boston-lisp] Hash tag for Twitter
by Kent M Pitman 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

On assumption there wasn't one already, I've suggested using the hash tag <http://twitter.com/search/%23BostonLisp> #BostonLisp. That way, people like me kept at home by the snow can follow vicariously. <https://twitter.com/KentPitman> @KentPitman

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[boston-lisp] Boston Lisp March Meeting
by Daniel Herring 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi all, Come join us for an informal night of lisp, food, and other refreshments. We'll be meeting Thursday, March 1, at 6:30pm in the CBC. Cambridge Brewing Co. http://www.cambrew.com/ 1 Kendall Square, Bldg 100 Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 617-494-1994 If you plan to come, please email me by Wednesday afternoon. (So I can give the CBC a head count.) In addition to the local crowd, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll (of ECL fame) came all the way from Madrid just to meet with us. ;) Zach Beane says he'll be in town from 5pm; so he might be interested in meeting with people before dinner. See you soon, Daniel

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[boston-lisp] merge boston-lisp-announce list into boston-lisp list?
by Neil Van Dyke 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Please let me know if you have any comments on the goodness of merging the "boston-lisp-announce(a)neilvandyke.org" list that I maintain into "boston-lisp(a)common-lisp.net" list (or perhaps into a "boston-lisp-announce(a)common-lisp.net" list). You may wish to email me privately. Any replies will *not* go through to the moderated "boston-lisp-announce" list, anyway. More info follows... "boston-lisp-announce" (originally called something else, a bad pun) was intended to reach the largest number of Boston-area Lisp (CL/Scheme/etc.) users, for announcements of things like meetings of Boston-area Lispers, highly relevant talks in the Boston area, and Boston-area job postings involving Lisp. When I created the list, I had a suspicion that many of the Lispers we most wanted to attract were highly averse to being on email discussion lists, and to spam, so I promised that "boston-lisp-announce" would be very-low-traffic and heavily moderated. I also adopted a policy of no member listing and no message archives, for those people who want to keep a low profile for themself or their startup company, or who just think that might help keep their address away from spammers and headhunters. When Boston Lisp Meeting started up, I think that "boston-lisp-announce" helped jumpstart participation in that, by reaching a fairly up-to-date and focused list of relevant people. (Around that time, "boston-lisp(a)common-lisp.net", or wherever it was hosted at the time, was effectively dead, as far as I recall.) Given that Boston Lisp Meeting announcements have seemed to constitute most of the traffic on "boston-lisp-announce" in recent years, and that "boston-lisp" seems to be the de facto list for post-Fare Boston Lisp Meeting, as well as me realizing that a primo list of Lispers exists nowhere other than my little personal Web site hosting account (the continued existence of which is contingent on me not getting hit by an MBTA bus)... I'm leaning towards talking with the "@common-lisp.net" people about merging "boston-lisp-announce" into their stuff. I'm asking here on "boston-lisp-announce" first and foremost to see whether there are any objections to merging at this time. I did make some guarantees as to how the list would behave, and I will honor those guarantees unless there are no objections. Or perhaps people would conditionally accept the idea of moving the list, so long as it becomes "boston-lisp-announce(a)common-lisp.net" with the same guarantees as "boston-lisp-announce(a)neilvandyke.org". (I suggest speaking only for your own interest here, not speculating on others', since everyone affected should receive this same message and can speak for themselves.) I'm CC-ing "boston-lisp" in case anyone there has ideas on how to best handle a currently-hypothetical merging of lists. All this said, if anyone would like me to continue to host and moderate "boston-lisp-announce(a)neilvandyke.org", with the same guarantees as always, I am happy to do so. Modulo any unfortunate MBTA incidents. Thanks, Neil V. -- http://www.neilvandyke.org/

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[boston-lisp] Meeting with Juanjo (of ECL fame)?
by Daniel Herring 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi all, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll, aka Juanjo in ECL land, will be here in Boston next week. His primary purpose is to attend the APS March Meeting; but he has some free time planned and seems agreeable to meeting with us... I'm thinking an evening at a favorite bar/restaurant might be good. If somebody has a good topic that doesn't require much preparation, he might be willing to give a presentation in a more formal setting (such as a room at MIT or Northeastern). Would anybody else like to meet with him? Other thoughts, including places to meet? (the APS event is at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street) Please reply on-list or directly to my email. Thanks, Daniel

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[boston-lisp] Friend looking for SBCL programmers (was: Fwd: Meetup Message Board Update)
by Robert Levy 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Meetup <info(a)meetup.com> Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:07 AM Subject: Meetup Message Board Update To: r.p.levy(a)gmail.com *Please do not reply to this message* ------------------------------------------------------------ You asked that we send you a summary of Meetup message board activity. The following is a list of discussions with new messages posted since July 23, 2011 3:11 AM. ------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================================ BOSTON CLOJURE GROUP Forum: Boston Clojure Group Discussion Forum ============================================================ Friend looking for SBCL programmers http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Clojure-Group/boards/view/viewthread?thread=15… Latest message by Eric Kobrin on September 1, 2011 at 11:31 AM -- Add info(a)meetup.com to your address book to receive all Meetup emails To manage your email settings, go to: http://www.meetup.com/account/comm/ Meetup, PO Box 4668 #37895 New York, New York 10163-4668 Meetup HQ in NYC is hiring! http://www.meetup.com/jobs/

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[boston-lisp] no meeting this month
by Daniel Herring 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Hi all, Initial plans to organize a Boston lisp meeting have fallen through. Thus there is no meeting/presentation this month. However, it might be worthwhile if a group of us still met to plan for future meetings. Let me know if that sounds good. ISTR the first planning meeting was held at a restaurant... location suggestions welcome. Later, Daniel

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[boston-lisp] a bit of context
by David O'Toole 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

I felt obligated to disclose this email train because other programmers (possibly those on this list whom he may contact privately) should know that: 1. whatever he open-sources (before or after dec 21) may be subject to non-compete issues and patents; 2. Asking pointed questions about both non-compete and patents did not produce satisfying or complete answers, in that: 3. He appears to have danced around the non-compete issue, mentioning the agreement and its expiration date in the first email but then trying to explain why it wasn't going to be relevant to our discussion; 4. I had to find out about the patent from Google, even though it seems pretty reasonable to wonder whether a networked method for calculating newtonian physics interactions in a simulated virtual world could apply to server code for an online game, AND even though I had specifically mentioned patents as a general concern. If anything, my privately negative reaction to the non-compete agreement issue might have kept others from hearing about it later, which could be a problem, since the non-compete issue is what led me to the patent. If Mr. Morrison has violated any agreements in talking to me, that's not my problem.

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[boston-lisp] Fwd: restatement
by David O'Toole 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David O'Toole <dto1138(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:09 PM Subject: Re: restatement To: John Morrison <john.nmi.morrison(a)gmail.com> Okay John, "Our goal for MAK was to commercialize the technology and make it available to game makers and video arcades." -- taken from this article by your MAK co-founder: http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/resource-center/using-sbir-to-bootstrap-… Thanks for the lunch offer, but I'm not going to have an off-the-record discussion of any kind with you, I'm not going to look at or discuss code you've been working on that possibly violates a non-compete agreement still in force, and I'm not going to discuss my own future plans with someone who might open source "server side stuff" that involves his patent on networked physics simulations: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2F… http://www.google.com/patents?id=soEoAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=john%20morrison%20s… Was this patent research funded by public money? "The U.S. Government has a paid-up license in this invention and the right in limited circumstances to require the patent owner to license others on reasonable terms as provided for by the terms of contract no. DAAH01-91-C-R269 awarded by the Small Business Innovation Research agency (SBIR). This contract in no way limits the rights of non-government entities to request and receive licenses under the invention." >From the Katz article: "From an entrepreneur's standpoint, what's most remarkable about the SBIR program is that it essentially provides free venture capital from the federal government. Under the program, the government offers up to $850,000 in seed capital, requires no money back, takes no equity in the company, and retains few intellectual property rights to technologies developed with the funds." I don't think we have anything to discuss. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:20 PM, John Morrison <john.nmi.morrison(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The non-compete does not "cover" any software, including anyd unreleased > software I have written. It precludes me from competing with that company > before that date. Competing means either selling or open sourcing software > into the niche market served by that company. I used the term "releasing " > to mean either selling or open sourcing. > > As to what I want to talk about, I was actually interested in what YOU want > to do with respect to Lisp and games. A hobby? A livelihood? An altruistic > activity to popularize Lisp? Something else? I hoped a discussion would > help both clarify my own thinking and perhaps identify some opportunities > for complementary endeavors. But no sweat if it's not your idea of a good > time. > > -jm > > -- John Morrison > > On Jul 21, 2011 9:47 PM, "David O'Toole" <dto1138(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I could probably sum all this up by saying: >> >> 1. I don't want to discuss your unreleased work if you can't release >> it until the agreement expires, because that fairly obviously signals >> that it's covered by the agreement. >> >> 2. I really might give better answers if you told me in more detail >> what you want to talk about. > --------------- Hi John, before discussing things further I would want to be sure that our conversation would not in itself cause a legal problem for me in the future. i maintain a "clean room" for my projects, and left the software industry partly in order to be completely free and clear from any form of non-compete agreement, intellectual property/invention assignment agreements, and non-disclosure, as my ethical precepts disallow them. more to the point, I would need unambiguous assurance that the unreleased code you just mentioned, and any ideas we discuss (whether or not involved in the code, and whether or not i even see the code) will NOT be affected in any way by the agreement still in force between yourself and Mak. - Show quoted text - ----------- Hello David, Sorry to be brief. Am on family vacation & using itsy-bitsy phone to reply hopefully only to you. Am working on hopefully industrial strength lisp based simulation/game. Am located in MA. Would love to have a chat about what you're doing & what your goals are. Am under non-compete with simulation company I co-founded & sold (mak.com) - agreement is up 21 Dec this year. Have code in the can - mostly server stuff - but cannot release anything yet. Please reply if interested in chatting - I'll buy. -jm -- John Morrison - Show quoted text - > _______________________________________________ > boston-lisp mailing list > boston-lisp(a)common-lisp.net > http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp

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