Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting - Call for Speakers, Participants and Sponsors.

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I will be organizing a monthly Boston Lisp Meeting.

By "Lisp", I mean any programmable programming system. However, speakers and attendants will be welcome to discuss any ideas relevant to programmers using or developing such a programmable programming system, whatever language was or wasn't previously used to express those ideas.

The meetings take place on the first Monday of every month at 6pm.

The regular format of these meetings would be a one hour conference followed by free-for-all discussions around drinks and food.

Conference meetings would include two speakers, on a strict schedule of 15' presentation + 5' Q&A. Additional slots of 3' flash presentation + 2' Q&A could be available for project updates, demos or calls to the public. We may give more time to exceptional speakers, especially those who come from afar.

We encourage both veterans and newbies to come and meet, maybe becoming collaborators, mentors or disciples on some Lisp project, whether as a hobby, as an academic endeavor, as a paid job, or as a startup.

I am seeking sponsorship from corporate or academic sponsors to host the event, and maybe even offer food. I have a few leads but no definite answer yet. The event will take place with or without such sponsor.

(I am also open to suggestions for improvements about these meetings: different timing, food before the conference, etc. Also, we'll adapt the meetings to the availability of interesting speakers. If we are short in speakers, we may include such a conference only bimonthly or quarterly, and skip directly to the drinks and food the rest of the time. If we are overwhelmed with great speakers, we may have conferences more often.)

The mailing-list boston-lisp@common-lisp.net will be revived as the place to discuss these events. You can subscribe at http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp

The next meeting will be on Monday, March 3rd 2008. No conference is schedule at this time, only a meeting for Lispers to have fun and for potential conference organizers to prepare the future meetings in April and beyond. We'll meet at the CBC http://www.cambrew.com/

The first meeting with a conference will be on Monday April 7th 2008.

Whether you are an academic, an industrial programmer, a student or a hobbyist, you are invited to join us at these meetings. And if you have something interesting to say or know someone who has, please submit a potential speech by sending mail to fare@tunes.org.

Topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: * Interesting applications written in some Lisp system. * How to use, implement or combine programming language features: metaprogramming, macros, modules, non-determinism, security, concurrency, reversibility, etc. * Use of semantics for better program synthesis (aka overcoming issues in software engineering with programming language support). * Use of semantics for better program analysis (aka types, proofs, tests, abstract interpretation, etc.) * Implementation techniques for programming languages (concurrency issues, resource management, etc.) * How to share code between Lisp systems and alien environments. * How programming languages and systems evolve, and Lisp systems in particular. * How Lispers can better help each other.

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