April 2008 - chicago-lisp@common-lisp.net

Re: [chi-lisp] [chicago-lisp] Lisp Workshop planning
by Peter Christensen 01 May '08

01 May '08

Fine with me too. I'll have the recaps up this weekend - they're mostly written but I was waiting on the date for the workshop before I posted them. -Peter On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Craig Ludington <cl(a)craig.upholsters.us> wrote: > John Quigley writes: > > I've tentatively scheduled the first Lisp Workshop for Saturday, May 31, > 2008 at 3:00pm at the Institute of Design[1] in downtown Chicago (right by > the Clark/Lake El stop). More details to come, but I want to first confirm > that this date works with the various volunteers who will be teaching. > > That date is fine with me. > > Craig > _______________________________________________ > chicago-lisp-discuss mailing list > chicago-lisp-discuss(a)chicagolisp.org > https://www.chicagolisp.org/lists/listinfo/chicago-lisp-discuss > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Peter Christensen http://www.pchristensen.com/ peter(a)pchristensen.com

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[chicago-lisp] Website is operational
by John Quigley 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

The Chicago Lisp website is operational. See here: http://www.chicagolisp.org/ Not much available yet, but I'll flesh out the Meetings section, and I'll add a section to contain presentation materials for historical/advertisement purposes. Content suggestions would be appreciated. Also, not being a web designer, I'll happily field alternative site designs; if we get contenders, we can vote next meeting. Note the mailing list. We can migrate to this group-controlled and spam-free list if so desired. Also, I'll happily add anyone to the "Group Director" email alias, just ask (Peter, I assume you want to be on this). Additional thoughts, suggestions? Best, John Quigley

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[chicago-lisp] Lisp Workshop planning
by John Quigley 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

I've tentatively scheduled the first Lisp Workshop for Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 3:00pm at the Institute of Design[1] in downtown Chicago (right by the Clark/Lake El stop). More details to come, but I want to first confirm that this date works with the various volunteers who will be teaching. Peter, could you follow up in this thread with a recap of what we discussed in the meeting? The topics, in particular, should be finalized. One additional theme that I realized should almost certainly be discussed is Common Lisp conditions. Are there any other topics that we forgot to vet? - John Quigley [1] Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/4rbmd3 The venue itself is an excellent one. Very big, tons of seating, speaker system, projectors and white boards galore. My point is that we won't have any facility needs go unmet.

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[chicago-lisp] Meeting announcement and recaps now on the web
by Peter Christensen 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Chicago Lispers, Since I was already writing announcements and recaps of Chicago Lisp meetings on my blog, I made a page to index them as well as announce upcoming meetings. Check it out at http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/chicago-lisp/ . I'd also like to hear if there is more information I should put on that page. -Peter -- ------------------------------------------------------ Peter Christensen http://www.pchristensen.com/ peter(a)pchristensen.com

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[chicago-lisp] Chicago Lisp meeting planning: April 18th @ 7p
by John Quigley 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Folks: We're looking to stage our next monthly meeting one week from today. We need to pull things together as a group to make this happen, and I'm happy to try to coordinate things as best I can. What I do need: help finding a place where we can meet! We're looking for someplace around the loop area, with decent presentation facilities (white board, projector) that is freely available. Anyone have leads? Let's try to get this straightened away this weekend so that we can make appropriately timed announcements to other programming groups around Chicago. - John Quigley

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[chicago-lisp] Chicago Linux meeting: April 19 @ 3pm
by John Quigley 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Hey Everyone! Chicago Linux is meeting this coming Saturday, April 19th, 2007 at 3pm at our standard location in downtown Chicago: The Institute of Design 350 N LaSalle Dr, Chicago, IL Floor 2 http://tinyurl.com/222j69 Give John Quigley a call if you have any trouble or questions at 312.351.3671. As always, food and beer are allowed, please come prepared. Our presentation agenda is slated to include two talks: 1. Introduction to deploying and using Trac (Evan Farrar) 2. Late-bound/combined object-lambda architecture (John Quigley) As always, we'll be heading out for food and drinks afterwards. We invite everyone to come along. For further information, please visit our homepage or subscribe to our mailing lists: http://www.chicagolug.org/ https://www.chicagolug.org/lists/listinfo All my best, John Quigley mail: jquigley#jquigley.com home: http://www.jquigley.com

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[chicago-lisp] Recap of 3/21 Chicago Lisp Meeting
by John Quigley 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Happy belated Chicago Lisp news! Two weeks ago (March 21st), we had our first meeting to bootstrap the new Chicago Lisp User Group. We had 7 people show up for the initial meeting: Craig Luddington Eli Naeher Victor Kryukov John Quigley Shaneal Manek Dave Morrow Peter Christensen *Items Covered:* _Future meetings_ - We decided on monthly meetings, the third Friday of every month, 7pm. The next meeting will be Friday, April 18th where John Q. will give a presentation on continuations. The May meeting will have several lightning presentations - submissions welcome (please post a message on the Coordinatr event)! All but one of the attendees live or work in the city of Chicago, so we decided that all meetings will be held in Chicago. _Meeting locations_ - The first meeting was held at Ambrosia Cafe (1963 N. Sheffield, Chicago, map: http://tinyurl.com/2koztz) It was a nice place for a meeting but we'd like to find a place to meet with a projector, so presentations can be given and recorded. Some proposed locations are the IIT Institute of Design (350 N. LaSalle St) and the Harold Washington Library (400 S. State St). If anyone has an office or location they'd like to volunteer, please let me know. _Scope_ - We decided to keep the group and meeting open to the greater Lisp family - Common Lisp, Scheme, Arc, etc. That will be the focus of the group but all are welcome to attend. Some people expressed desire to start or adopt a project that we could work on as a group. _Name_ - Some people wanted a better name than "Chicago Lisp", and who can blame them? One nomination as "LispChics" (inspired by NYC's Lispniks) but I thought it was false advertising (7 guys with laptops, Chics, ??). The name is up in the air, nominations accepted. _Web Presence_ - John Q. owns the chicagolisp.org <http://chicagolisp.org> domain and Craig L. has a server he volunteered for use. A project we develop could be hosted there, and I recommended a CLiki instance for group notes. I've also setup a group on coordinatr.com <http://coordinatr.com> that I'd like to try out for organizing meetings. You should get an email soon. The common-lisp.net <http://common-lisp.net> chicago-lisp mailing list will still be used but only as a supplement. The list is not great because of spam but there are a hundred or so subscribers still on the list that would have no other connection to the group. _Intro to Lisp Workshop_ - John Q. informed of a planned, all day workshop designed to introduce programmers to using Lisp - from installing and setting up an image to programming basics to advanced concepts. It is planned for a Saturday in May (date TBD, location probably Institute of Design) and volunteers would be appreciated. _Coordinatr_ - I'll be trying out a new site called Coordinatr.com to manage the meetings. You can RSVP there, submit ideas for proposals, etc. You should receive email inviting you to the first two meetings shortly after this email. There is also a feed of new events created for this group here: http://coordinatr.com/feeds/rss/vcwxbvdrepk2blkbtwctez . You can get updates and reminders by email and/or SMS, but I think the RSS feed doesn't get updated (the platform has only been out for a couple weeks). Let me know how this works - I think it'll be better than a zillion back and forth emails. You can view the feed without registering at the site, but you need to register AND be invited to see the event website, RSVP, post messages, etc. Good news is that you can invite new people to an existing event once you've registered. *Calendar:* Friday, April 18, 7pm: Chicago Lisp Meeting Location TBD Presentation on Continuations Friday, May 16, 7pm: Chicago Lisp Meeting Location TBD Lightning presentations, accepting submissions Some Saturday in May: Intro to Lisp Workshop Location TBD (probably Institute of Design) Getting started with Lisp, all-day event *Homework Items:* Name the Group! Send submissions to Peter Lightning Talk Proposals for May 16 meeting Locations for future meetings - 3rd Friday of the month, 7pm, ~10 people, preferably with wireless access and a projector. If you have a place, email Peter Feedback on using Coordinator for managing events Thanks, Peter Christensen DFGL (de facto group leader) -- ------------------------------------------------------ Peter Christensen http://www.pchristensen.com/ peter(a)pchristensen.com <mailto:peter@pchristensen.com>

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