November 2006 - chicago-lisp@common-lisp.net

[chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p
by John Quigley 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Hey Folks: I'm interested in taking charge of this group and giving it some direction. I've been subscribed to this list for a few months, and haven't seen any activity. I'm really interested in hanging out with some Lisp hackers, and I think it's a shame that there's no activity here. In this vein, I'm inviting everyone interested to make it out next Saturday, 2006-12-02 @ 3p, to a pilot meeting at the Chicago Institute of Design. I operate the Chicago LUG, and have access to a really beautiful meeting space (4 big conference rooms, 20 white boards, projector, the works). I'd like to run The Chicago LUG meeting concurrently; I'll be making a presentation (to both the Lisp and LUG groups) on setting up a good Lisp development environment (Slime, etc.) as an introduction for newer developers. The Chicago LUG has a number of functional developers (Erlang, Haskell and Lisp predominantly), so I'm trying to bootstrap the Lisp group by harnessing interest within the LUG. Thoughts? Suggestions? I'd love to hear them. Please try to make it out, and RSVP if you're able to attend. If enough people show interest, we can have a forum after the presentation to plan things out. I'm willing to invest my time in starting/operating a web site, etc., but I want to make sure I'm not alone in wanting to make something of this group. Regards, John Quigley http://www.chicagolug.org/~jquigley/

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[chicago-lisp] Newsgroup Traffic
by David Douthitt 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

An interesting aside: I subscribe to several language Usenet newsgroups. LISP is one of the most active groups - consider (in my current reading): awk: 610 eiffel: 27 forth: 1834 perl: 12 ruby: 9178 postscript: 294 java: 96 smalltalk: 327 tcl: 2917 lisp: 3370 Only comp.lang.ruby is more active (in my list). So where is everybody? :-O PS: No, I'm not fluent in all those ;-) And no, I'm not subscribed to comp.lang.c or similar.

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Re: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p
by John Quigley 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Forwarding Michael's response on to the list, in the hopes that this helps others. I'm discovering an annoying aspect of this list: when you click on "Reply" or "Reply all" to any email sent to you via the list, you respond directly to the original sender. I'm personally used to replies going back to the list, and I suspect that this confusing others as well, so be wary of this when making responses. More to the point: Michael Bobak wrote: > I'm very glad to see any activity here. I'd love to make it to any meeting that I can. But won't be in town then. Great, thanks much for the show of interest, and so soon =) > If it becomes regular, I'll be around for part of Dec then beyond, so should be able to make most of the rest of the meetings; and could try to help out. I'll be certain to take notes on 12-02, and I'll make those public for those unable to attend. I'm definitely going to push for a regular meeting schedule, since this really helps in maintaining a structured group. Looking forward to meeting you! - John Quigley

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Re: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p
by John Quigley 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Forwarding Peter's question on to the list, in the hopes that this helps others: Peter Horst wrote: > What's the Chicago Institute of Design? IoD is a school located in what's better known as the AFLAC building, one block north of the Chicago river: http://tinyurl.com/mdqb3 (Google map) As I said, it's a nice facility: http://www.chicagolug.org/Image:LUG060415_1381.JPG The school itself (I'm not affiliated with it, aside from knowing several teachers and workers there): http://www.id.iit.edu/ - John Quigley

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