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[boston-lisp] [Fwd: [boston-lisp-organizers] Open Source Bridge: CFP and raffle a free pass for your user group!]
by Dan Stanger 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [boston-lisp-organizers] Open Source Bridge: CFP and raffle a free pass for your user group! Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:45:48 -0800 From: Selena Deckelmann <selena(a)bridgepdx.org> Reply-To: selena(a)opensourcebridge.org Organization: Open Source Bridge Foundation To: boston-lisp-organizers(a)common-lisp.net Hi! I'm a volunteer working to organize Open Source Bridge, the conference for open source citizens. We're hosting it for the second time on June 1–4, 2010, in Portland, Oregon. We’re aiming to connect people across projects, languages and experience and would love to have members of Boston Lisp Meetings involved as speakers and participants. Details about the conference are included below. Bridge isn’t a typical conference. It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology agnostic, based instead around shared community experiences and focused on similarities between projects, not differences. Plus, we’ll be running a 24-hour hacker lounge on site for code sprints, bug bashes, bouncing ideas, starting new projects and generally socializing around code. We’d be delighted if you could mention Open Source Bridge at your user group meetings, post this email to your mailing list, and get us in touch with other groups in your community interested in participating. Our call for proposals runs through March 25th, which is fast approaching, so please pass this information on as soon as possible. We don’t expect something for nothing, so we’re giving all of your user group members a discounted registration rate of $200. That’s $25 off the Early Bird rate, and $100 off our regular registration. User groups are very important to us and our organizers are heavily involved in the local tech community. We’re also offering a free conference pass for you to give away to a member of your group. If you’re interested in more ways to promote the conference, let us know! Thank You! -Selena Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org/ ### CONFERENCE PASS RAFFLE INFORMATION You get one free conference pass to raffle off to a member of your group! We’ve found that these raffles work best when you: 1) Let all of your members know about the conference, dates, and URL: http://opensourcebridge.org/ 2) Allow anyone in the group to sign up for the raffle. 3) Draw the winner at random, preferably at a public meeting. When you have selected a winner, email usergroups(a)opensourcebridge.org, CC the winner, and we’ll register them for you. DETAILS TO SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP’S MEMBERS Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 1–4, 2010, in Portland, Oregon, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events. Attendees will learn and interact at three days of traditional conference presentations, a day of free-form unconference sessions, and our 24-hour Hacker Lounge. This year we are thrilled to have an excellent downtown location at the Portland Art Museum ( http://pam.org/ ), an extra day packed full of open source goodness, and an on-site 24-hour Hacker Lounge! As a user group member, you can use the coupon code "osbugluv" to register for only $200 when you select either an Early Bird Registration (through April 1st), or a Regular Registration (after April 1st). Learn more and register today at http://opensourcebridge.org/attend/ The conference is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need for an open source event that focuses on the culture of being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference. Our event shares in-depth knowledge about using, creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community. You’ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology. We're still seeking proposals — and we've just extended the deadline through March 25th — so submit yours before time runs out at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/ The city of Portland is a great place to visit. It has a thriving technical community, a love of all things open source and offers many attractions for visiting geeks, including Powell’s technical books, dozens of local brewpubs, and large greenspaces like Forest Park—all accessible by mass transit. Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend. Thanks! -- Open Source Bridge Foundation http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ boston-lisp-organizers mailing list boston-lisp-organizers(a)common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp-organizers

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[boston-lisp] Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-02-22 Adam Chlipala on A Sane Approach to Modern Web Application Development
by fare＠tunes.org 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-02-22 Adam Chlipala on A Sane Approach to Modern Web Application Development http://fare.livejournal.com/154579.html A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, February 22nd 2010 at 1800 at Harvard Pierce 209. Adam Chlipala will speak about A Sane Approach to Modern Web Application Development. Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. Alex Plotnick will discuss a potential error in how Common Lisp formalized backquote. François-René Rideau will present Interface-Passing Style as a way to achieve parametric polymorphism and more. Note that lacking a sponsor, buffet will no longer be offered after our meetings. 1 Adam Chlipala on A Sane Approach to Modern Web Application Development Most web applications today are programmed with tools that feel in this domain as assembly language feels in many traditional domains; everything is a string, or at best a globally-accessible (and mutable!) document tree. Some recent language designs improve the situation, including explicit handling of key entities like page generators and database tables, with language-level detection of violations of the proper protocols for using these entities. I claim we should go even further and provide opportunities for encapsulation of web application components. Just as we are used to building encapsulated data structure implementations, we should be able to encapsulate entire ``sub-webs´´ of applications, possibly parametrized by additional data and code, and with the ability to ``own´´ and enforce access control on cookies, subtrees of a web page's structure, etc. Further, within a statically-typed setting, it should be possible to implement (safely) the metaprogramming patterns that have become the standard in mainstream web frameworks; we should be able to generate sub-webs specialized to database schemas, choices of form fields, etc., and the compiler should tell us that the generator always produces valid code. In this talk, I will present the Ur/Web domain-specific programming language, which satisfies both of these requirements, in addition to offering compatibility with buzzwords like ``AJAX´´ and ``Comet.´´ Adam Chlipala is currently a postdoc in computer science at Harvard University. His research interests are in applications of advanced type systems, including mechanized theorem-proving and the design and implementation of functional programming languages. He finished his PhD at Berkeley in 2007, with a thesis on verifying compilers and program analysis tools in the Coq computer proof assistant. At Harvard, he is continuing work on compiler verification, and he led a reimplementation of the Ynot library for Coq, which adds support for the construction and mostly-automated verification of higher-order, imperative programs, via separation logic. He also has a longstanding interest in tool support for web programming, and he is now developing a commercial web site (to be made public Real Soon Now) using his Ur/Web language for safe metaprogramming of AJAX applications. 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. Alex Plotnick will discuss his discovery of a potential error in the formal rules for the backquote syntax of Common Lisp. François-René Rideau will present Interface-Passing Style as a way to achieve parametric polymorphism and more in implementing algorithms and data-structures in Common Lisp. 3 Time and Location The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, February 22nd 2010 at 1800 (6pm) at Harvard Pierce 209. Note that it's a new location. This is at Harvard University, in the Pierce building, part of the SEAS department. The nearest T stop is Harvard Square station on the Red Line. We suggest you enter Pierce Hall from Oxford Street. The entrance is the one on the right, and it has ``Pierce Hall´´ written above it. From there, you go up the stairs one level and arrive almost directly outside Pierce 209, the meeting room. Beware that the building normally closes at 6pm (time that the meeting begins) though we'll try to leave that particular entrance open for late-comers. SEAS maps and direction: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/our-school/map-directions Many thanks go to Adam Chlipala for arranging for the room, and to Harvard University for welcoming us. 4 No Dinner We haven't been able to renew sponsorship from our usual partners for 2010, and are not planning to have after-meeting buffet anymore at this point. A group will probably form to have dinner somewhere around Harvard Square. 5 More about the Meeting The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on Monday, January 25th 2010 had about 20 participants. Ryan Culpepper spoke about PLT Scheme Macros. http:// fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-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://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] [CfP] 7th European Lisp Workshop, June 21/22 2010, Maribor, Slovenia
by Didier Verna 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

+------------------------------------------------------------+ | CALL FOR PAPERS | | 7th European Lisp Workshop | | June 21/22, Maribor, Slovenia - co-located with ECOOP 2010 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: April 19, 2010 Notification of acceptance: May 05, 2010 ECOOP early registration deadline: May 10, 2010 7th European Lisp Workshop: June 21 or 22, 2010 (tbdl) Please note that registration must be done with ECOOP itself. For more information visit http://www.european-lisp-workshop.org Contact: Didier Verna, didier(a)lrde.epita.fr Invited Speaker =============== Manuel Serrano (INRIA, France) http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Manuel.Serrano/ Overview ======== "...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bio-informatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." -- Kent Pitman Lisp, one of the eldest computer languages still in use today, is gaining momentum again. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch, making it the ideal candidate for writing Domain Specific Languages. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and remains the most complete and advanced object system of any programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented programming languages that followed. This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education. We solicit contributions that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies. The workshop will have two components: there will be formal talks, and interactive turorial/demo/coding sessions. Papers ====== Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and answers. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): - Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming - Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches - Protocol meta-programming and libraries - New language features and abstractions - Software evolution - Development aids - Persistent systems - Dynamic optimization - Implementation techniques - Hardware Support - Efficiency, distribution and parallel programming - Educational approaches and perspectives - Experience reports and case studies Interactive Tutorial/Demo/Coding Sessions ========================================= Additionally, we invite less formal talks in the form of interactive tutorial/demo/coding sessions. The purpose of these sessions is both to demonstrate and receive feedback on any interesting Lisp system, either stable or under development. Being less formal than technical paper presentations, these sessions are expected to be highly interactive. Submission Guidelines ===================== Potential contributors are encouraged to submit: - a long paper (around 10 pages) presenting scientific and/or empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for software engineering purposes, - a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in the near future, - a proposal for an interactive tutorial/demo/coding session (1-2 pages) describing the involved library or application, and the subject of the session. Papers (both long and short) should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines and include ACM classification categories and terms (see below). Authors will later be required to sign an ACM copyright form, as the workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. For more information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998 Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elw2010 Organizers ========== Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel Robert Strandh, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux 1, France Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com EPITA/LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire, 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Tel. +33 (0)1 44 08 01 85 Fax. +33 (0)1 53 14 59 22

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[boston-lisp] [REMINDER] Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-02-22 Adam Chlipala on A Sane Approach to Modern Web Application Development
by fare＠tunes.org 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-02-22 Adam Chlipala on A Sane Approach to Modern Web Application Development http://fare.livejournal.com/154579.html A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, February 22nd 2010 at 1800 at Harvard Pierce 209. Adam Chlipala will speak about A Sane Approach to Modern Web Application Development. Additionally, we will have two 5-minute Lightning Talks, each followed by 2-minute Q&A. Speakers to be announced. Note that lacking a sponsor at this point, no buffet will be offered after the meeting. 1 Adam Chlipala on A Sane Approach to Modern Web Application Development Most web applications today are programmed with tools that feel in this domain as assembly language feels in many traditional domains; everything is a string, or at best a globally-accessible (and mutable!) document tree. Some recent language designs improve the situation, including explicit handling of key entities like page generators and database tables, with language-level detection of violations of the proper protocols for using these entities. I claim we should go even further and provide opportunities for encapsulation of web application components. Just as we are used to building encapsulated data structure implementations, we should be able to encapsulate entire ``sub-webs´´ of applications, possibly parametrized by additional data and code, and with the ability to ``own´´ and enforce access control on cookies, subtrees of a web page's structure, etc. Further, within a statically-typed setting, it should be possible to implement (safely) the metaprogramming patterns that have become the standard in mainstream web frameworks; we should be able to generate sub-webs specialized to database schemas, choices of form fields, etc., and the compiler should tell us that the generator always produces valid code. In this talk, I will present the Ur/Web domain-specific programming language, which satisfies both of these requirements, in addition to offering compatibility with buzzwords like ``AJAX´´ and ``Comet.´´ Adam Chlipala is currently a postdoc in computer science at Harvard University. His research interests are in applications of advanced type systems, including mechanized theorem-proving and the design and implementation of functional programming languages. He finished his PhD at Berkeley in 2007, with a thesis on verifying compilers and program analysis tools in the Coq computer proof assistant. At Harvard, he is continuing work on compiler verification, and he led a reimplementation of the Ynot library for Coq, which adds support for the construction and mostly-automated verification of higher-order, imperative programs, via separation logic. He also has a longstanding interest in tool support for web programming, and he is now developing a commercial web site (to be made public Real Soon Now) using his Ur/Web language for safe metaprogramming of AJAX applications. 2 Lightning Talks At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" 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 Monday, February 22nd 2010 at 1800 (6pm) at Harvard Pierce 209. Note that it's a new location. This is at Harvard University, in the Pierce building, part of the SEAS department. The nearest T stop is Harvard Square station on the Red Line. We suggest you enter Pierce Hall from Oxford Street. The entrance is the one on the right, and it has ``Pierce Hall´´ written above it. From there, you go up the stairs one level and arrive almost directly outside Pierce 209, the meeting room. Beware that the building normally closes at 6pm (time that the meeting begins) though we'll try to leave that particular entrance open for late-comers. SEAS maps and direction: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/our-school/map-directions Many thanks go to Adam Chlipala for arranging for the room, and to Harvard University for welcoming us. 4 No Dinner We haven't been able to renew sponsorship from our usual partners for 2010, and are not planning to have after-meeting buffet anymore at this point. A group will probably form to have dinner somewhere around Harvard Square. 5 More about the Meeting The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on Monday, January 25th 2010 had about 20 participants. Ryan Culpepper spoke about PLT Scheme Macros. http:// fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-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://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] [REMINDER] Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-01-25 Ryan Culpepper on PLT Scheme Macros
by fare＠tunes.org 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-01-25 Ryan Culpepper on PLT Scheme Macros http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, January 25th 2010 at 1800 at NEU WVH 366. Ryan Culpepper will speak about PLT Scheme Macros. Additionally, we will have two 5-minute Lightning Talks, each followed by 2-minute Q&A. Speakers to be announced. Note that lacking a sponsor at this point, no buffet will be offered after the meeting. 1 Ryan Culpepper on PLT Scheme Macros I will talk about writing macros in PLT Scheme, using the tools I've developed. The first tool is the macro stepper, which shows the macro expansion of programs as a series of rewriting steps. The macro stepper is adapted specifically to the challenges of writing macros in a hygienic macro system using a base language that is itself composed of layers of macros. I'll demonstrate how to use the macro stepper and talk about its implementation. The second tool I'll demonstrate is a specification system for Scheme syntax that makes macros robust and concise. I am a graduate student in the PLT group at Northeastern University working on making macros more powerful and easier to use. I'm interested in exploring new ways of expressing programs and methods of implementing and supporting program expression. 2 Lightning Talks At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" 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 Monday, January 25th 2010 at 1800 (6pm) at NEU WVH 366. Note that it's the same location as in our previous December 2009 meeting, and a different location from earlier meetings. This is at Northeastern University, in the Computer Science building WVH (West Village H, see http://tmp.barzilay.org/wvh.jpg this picture) when you arrive from the T on Huntington Avenue near to Parker St (Green E line, stop at Northeastern Station, or possibly Museum of Fine Arts; you can also walk from Ruggles on the Orange line). As the number indicates, the room is on the third floor. Northeastern maps and direction: http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/maps.html Many thanks go to Eli Barzilay for arranging for the room, and to Northeastern University for welcoming us. 4 No Dinner We haven't been able to renew sponsorship from our usual partners at this point, and we won't have the usual buffet after this meeting. 5 More about the Meeting The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on Monday, December 14th 2009 had about 20 participants. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt spoke about Typed Scheme. http:// fare.livejournal.com/149685.html 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: Monday 2010-01-25 Ryan Culpepper on PLT Scheme Macros
by fare＠tunes.org 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-01-25 Ryan Culpepper on PLT Scheme Macros http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, January 25th 2010 at 1800 at NEU WVH 366. Ryan Culpepper will speak about PLT Scheme Macros. Additionally, we will have two 5-minute Lightning Talks, each followed by 2-minute Q&A. Speakers to be announced. Also, there will be a buffet offered by ITA Software. 1 Ryan Culpepper on PLT Scheme Macros I will talk about writing macros in PLT Scheme, using the tools I've developed. The first tool is the macro stepper, which shows the macro expansion of programs as a series of rewriting steps. The macro stepper is adapted specifically to the challenges of writing macros in a hygienic macro system using a base language that is itself composed of layers of macros. I'll demonstrate how to use the macro stepper and talk about its implementation. The second tool I'll demonstrate is a specification system for Scheme syntax that makes macros robust and concise. I am a graduate student in the PLT group at Northeastern University working on making macros more powerful and easier to use. I'm interested in exploring new ways of expressing programs and methods of implementing and supporting program expression. 2 Lightning Talks At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" 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 Monday, January 25th 2010 at 1800 (6pm) at NEU WVH 366. Note that we're back on a Monday, and that we're using a new location. This is at Northeastern University, in the Computer Science building WVH (West Village H, see http://tmp.barzilay.org/wvh.jpg this picture) when you arrive from the T on Huntington Avenue near to Parker St (Green E line, stop at Northeastern Station, or possibly Museum of Fine Arts; you can also walk from Ruggles on the Orange line). As the number indicates, the room is on the third floor. Northeastern maps and direction: http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/maps.html Many thanks go to Eli Barzilay for arranging for the room, and to Northeastern University for welcoming us. 4 Dinner ITA Software a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclaimer: I work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our monthly Boston Lisp meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. 5 More about the Meeting The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on Monday, December 14th 2009 had about 30 participants. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt spoke about Typed Scheme. http:// fare.livejournal.com/149685.html 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] [REMINDER] Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2009-12-14 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt on Typed Scheme
by fare＠tunes.org 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2009-12-14 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt on Typed Scheme http://fare.livejournal.com/149685.html A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, December 14th 2009 at 1800 at NEU WVH 366. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt will speak about Typed Scheme. Additionally, we will have two 5-minute Lightning Talks, each followed by 2-minute Q&A. Speakers to be announced. Also, there will be a buffet offered by ITA Software. Registration is not necessary but appreciated. See details below. 1 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt on Typed Scheme Typed Scheme is a system for incrementally porting untyped PLT Scheme programs to a typed language. The type system is designed to automatically accommodate typical Scheme idioms, and includes several novel features to support this. It also offers sound and automatic interoperability with untyped code. It has been used in real applications and on thousands of lines of existing Scheme code. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/samth/typed-scheme/ Sam Tobin-Hochstadt is a postdoc at Northeastern University, working for Matthias Felleisen. He is investigating the integration of typed and untyped languages, with a focus on Scheme and JavaScript. As a graduate student, he developed Typed Scheme, which he continues to maintain. He is currently supported by a grant from the Mozilla Corporation. 2 Lightning Talks At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" 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 Monday, December 14th 2009 at 1800 (6pm) at NEU WVH 366. Note that we're back on a Monday, and that we're using a new location. This is at Northeastern University, in the Computer Science building WVH (West Village H, see http://tmp.barzilay.org/wvh.jpg this picture) when you arrive from the T on Huntington Avenue (Green E line, stop at Northeastern Station, or possibly Museum of Fine Arts; you can also walk from Ruggles on the Orange line). As the number indicates, the room is on the third floor. Northeastern maps and direction: http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/maps.html Many thanks go to Eli Barzilay for arranging for the room, and to Northeastern University for welcoming us. 4 Dinner ITA Software a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclaimer: I work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our monthly Boston Lisp meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos you have, so that we can order the correct amount and kind of food. Tell us by sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We won't send any acknowledgement unless requested; importantly, we'll keep your identity and address confidential and won't communicate any such information to anyone, not even to our sponsors. 5 More about the Meeting The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on Thursday, October 29th 2009 had about 30 participants. Daniel Herring spoke about LibCL and Alex Plotnick about CLWEB. http://fare.livejournal.com/148335.html 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 Monday 2009-12-14: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
by fare＠tunes.org 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2009-12-14 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt http://fare.livejournal.com/149685.html A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, December 14th 2009 at 1800 at NEU WVH 366. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt with talk about Typed Scheme. Additionally, we will have two 5-minute Lightning Talks, each followed by 2-minute Q&A. Speakers to be announced. Also, there will be a buffet offered by ITA Software. Registration is not necessary but appreciated. See details below. 1 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt on Typed Scheme Typed Scheme is a system for incrementally porting untyped PLT Scheme programs to a typed language. The type system is designed to automatically accommodate typical Scheme idioms, and includes several novel features to support this. It also offers sound and automatic interoperability with untyped code. It has been used in real applications and on thousands of lines of existing Scheme code. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/samth/typed-scheme/ Sam Tobin-Hochstadt is a postdoc at Northeastern University, working for Matthias Felleisen. He is investigating the integration of typed and untyped languages, with a focus on Scheme and JavaScript. As a graduate student, he developed Typed Scheme, which he continues to maintain. He is currently supported by a grant from the Mozilla Corporation. 2 Lightning Talks At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" 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 Monday December 14th 2009 at 1800 (6pm) at NEU WVH 366. Note that we're back on a Monday, and that we're using a new location. This is at Northeastern University, in the Computer Science building WVH (West Village H, see this picture) when you arrive from the T on Huntington Avenue (Green E line, stop at Northeastern Station, or possibly Museum of Fine Arts; you can also walk from Ruggles on the Orange line). As the number indicates, the room is on the third floor. Northeastern maps and direction: http:// www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/maps.html Many thanks go to Eli Barzilay for arranging for the room, and to Northeastern University for welcoming us. 4 Dinner ITA Software a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclaimer: I work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our monthly Boston Lisp meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos you have, so that we can order the correct amount and kind of food. Tell us by sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We won't send any acknowledgement unless requested; importantly, we'll keep your identity and address confidential and won't communicate any such information to anyone, not even to our sponsors. 5 More about the Meeting The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on Thursday October 29th 2009 had about 30 participants. Daniel Herring spoke about LibCL and Alex Plotnick about CLWEB. http://fare.livejournal.com/148335.html 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] You're invited to my Birthday Party!
by Faré 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Dear Friends, you are cordially invited to Lauren's and my late house-warming party and my early birthday party. The party will take place next Saturday November 21st 2009, from 2pm to 10pm, at 112 Thorndike St #2, Cambridge MA 02414. The nearest T station is Lechmere (Green line) but Kendall Sq/MIT (Red line) is not far. Phone: 617 595 2601 Sorry for a late notice. Please RSVP with number of guests who come with you (and approximate hours if you know them). http://fare.livejournal.com/149005.html If you add me on facebook http://www.facebook.com/fahree you can RSVP on the event page at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176953524409 [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

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[boston-lisp] Formulate 0.1
by Rahul Jain 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Just a quick announcement. I have completed an initial stab at creating a fully OO implementation of a functional-reactive programming system in Common Lisp. Both variables and instance slots can be formulas that depend on the values of other variables and slots that are defined via formulate. No documentation due to the current paucity of features (hence 0.1), but there is an ASD and a file of examples which covers all of the features which are currently implemented. There are a couple ugly bits in the syntax I also want to make nicer. Any feedback, comments, recommendations, or code are greatly appreciated. http://common-lisp.net/project/rjain-utils/formulate-0.1.tar.gz MIT License. Share and Enjoy, Rahul Jain

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