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[chicago-lisp] Is Israel a Democracy? -- The problem with intellectually insecure whites -- Should Christians Support Israeli Terrorism in Gaza?
by Lawrence Auster 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

The Jewish State of Israel has no constitution, nor does it name its borders. Israel's hidden constitution is Judaism. Israel's undeclared borders range from the Nile to the Euphrates rivers. Israel's desired jurisdiction extends over the entire Earth. It could not be more clear that the Jewish State follows a foreign policy which obeys Jewish Law as iterated in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, Maimonedes, the Cabalah, and the many commentaries and refinements of same. The Jews are genociding the native inhabitants of Palestine, just as their religion advises, and because their religion teaches them to do so. They treat non-Jews as if non-humans, just as their religion requires them to do. They make perpetual war on every nation on Earth, just as their genocidal Jewish God has instructed. The Jews of Israel are simply being Jews. Jews are an existential threat to the human race. Israel contains one third of the Jews of the World. It is not some aberration of the Jewish spirit, but the condensation and concentration of the perverse Jewish mentality, which malady also pervades the remaining two thirds of Jewry, who almost unanimously support the Jewish State, and who certainly do unanimously support the Jewish People and its consistent and constant crimes against the human race. Israel is Jewry and the danger of Israel is the danger of the Jewish People to all others, as the Jews have demonstrated each and every day of their existence. The Jews, the entire Jewish People of 15 million, will not relent until they have wiped out all non-Jews in "Greater Israel". They will not stop destroying all other cultures, nations, religions, ethnicities, races, competition, etc. until they are either stopped, or succeed in their ancient quest to destroy the human race. What Israel is doing is not some reaction to outside forces, nor was the formation of Israel a response to the Holocaust. Israel is simply following the plan laid out in the Jews' religious texts. The Jews have openly planned to take Palestine and genocide the native population of Palestine for some 2,500 years before the Holocaust. The Jews have openly complained that "anti-Semitism" is a threat that gives them the right to genocide the Palestinians, not merely since the advent of Nazism, but for some 2,500 years. The Jewish religion is the Constitution of the Jewish State of Israel, and, to a greater or lesser extent, the constitution of the nature of every Jew alive. The borders of Israel are the range the Jew roams over the entire World. The perverse Jewish mentality is inbred by a Jew's exposure to his parents and to his community. Judaism passes in the spit and slobber of Jewish mother telling her Jewish child that he is a "Jew", as much as Judaism passes in the poison and pain of a Talmudic tractate. The secular Jews did not suddenly come to life after the Enlightenment and the Jewish Reformation a body of vampires that appeared ex nihilo, in vacuo, mostly atheistical and undetached from formally practiced Judaism. Judaism is the Jew. It is a mindset that transcends and supercedes religion. It is a belief set, a way of life, a perception of one's self and one's relation to the World that makes a Jew, a Jew, and a danger to all of humanity. In fact, the religious shell of Judaism is like the stretched and infected skin of a lycanthropic pustule. When you lance it to cure the infection, the virus only becomes more contagious and spills directly on the non-Jew. The secular Jew is a deliberate product of the hyper-religious Jew, a monster created out of the hewed corpses of the fanatically religious Jew, a Golem which is conjured up to enter the World of the non-Jew and poison its blood, and boil its brain with a rabid lunacy that bites and spreads, until the infected community feeds on itself and fills the fields with rotting bloating bodies, where once human beings tilled the soil and tended to their families. The religious Jew created the secular Jew as an army of Esthers who seduce with open thighs, broad smiles, and a Siren call that lures in the non-Jew to cast his skull upon the jagged rocks and color the seas with his blood, sickened and blinded by the venereal disease of Judaism in secular form. Israel is not a secular democracy. It is a religious mockery. It is a rabid bat flying to the ends of the Earth, to end the Earth. No one will be free nor safe until the disease is quarantined and dies out. Source: http://www.ziopedia.org/articles/israel/how_can_israel_claim_to_be_a_%27dem… -------------------- The problem with intellectually insecure whites By Kevin MacDonald January 19, 2009 America will soon have a white minority. This is a much desired state of affairs for the hostile elites who hold political power and shape public opinion. But it certainly creates some management issues � at least in the long run. After all, it�s difficult to come up with an historical example of a nation with a solid ethnic majority (90% white in 1950) that has voluntarily decided to cede political and cultural power. Such transformations are typically accomplished by military invasions, great battles, and untold suffering. And it�s not as if everyone is doing it. Only Western nations view their own demographic and cultural eclipse as a moral imperative. Indeed, as I have noted previously, it is striking that racial nationalism has triumphed in Israel at the same time that the Jewish intellectual and political movements and the organized Jewish community have been the most active and effective force for a non-white America. Indeed, a poll in 2008 found that Avigdor Lieberman was the second most popular politician in Israel. Lieberman has advocated expulsion of Arabs from Israel and has declared himself a follower of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the leading pioneer of racial Zionism. The most popular politician in the poll was Benjamin Netanyahu � another admirer of Jabotinsky. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are also Jabotinskyists. The racial Zionists are now carrying out yet another orgy of mass murder after a starvation-inducing blockade and the usual triggering assault designed to provoke Palestinian retaliation � which then becomes the cover for claims that Israel is merely defending itself against terrorism. This monstrosity was approved by overwhelming majorities of both Houses of Congress. The craven Bush administration did its part by abstaining from a UN resolution designed by the US Secretary of State as a result of a personal appeal by the Israeli Prime Minister. This is yet another accomplishment of the Israel Lobby, but one they would rather not have discussed in public. People might get the impression that the Lobby really does dictate US foreign policy in the Mideast. Obviously, such thoughts are only entertained by anti-Semites. But I digress. In managing the eclipse of white America, one strategy of the mainstream media is to simply ignore the issue. Christopher Donovan (�For the media, the less whites think about their coming minority status, the better�) has noted that the media, and in particular, the New York Times, are quite uninterested in doing stories that discuss what white people think about this state of affairs. It�s not surprising that the New York Times � the Jewish-owned flagship of anti-white, pro-multicultural media � ignores the issue. The issue is also missing from so-called conservative media even though one would think that conservatives would find the eclipse of white America to be an important issue. Certainly, their audiences would find it interesting. Now we have an article �The End of White America� written by Hua Hsu, an Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College. The article is a rather depressing display of what passes for intellectual discourse on the most important question confronting white people in America. Hsu begins by quoting a passage in F. Scott Fitzgerald�s The Great Gatsby in which a character, Tom Buchanan, states: �Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard?� � Well, it�s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don�t look out the white race will be�will be utterly submerged. It�s all scientific stuff; it�s been proved.� Buchanan�s comment is a thinly veiled reference to Lothrop Stoddard�s The Rising Tide of Color which Hsu describes as �rationalized hatred� presented in a scholarly, gentlemanly, and scientific tone. (This wording that will certainly help him when he comes up for tenure.) As Hsu notes, Stoddard had a doctorate from Harvard and was a member of many academic associations. His book was published by a major publisher. It was therefore �precisely the kind of book that a 1920s man of Buchanan�s profile � wealthy, Ivy League�educated, at once pretentious and intellectually insecure � might have been expected to bring up in casual conversation.� Let�s ponder that a bit. The simple reality is that in the year 2009 an Ivy League-educated person, "at once pretentious and intellectually insecure," would just as glibly assert the same sort of nonsense as Hsu. To wit: The coming white minority does not mean that the racial hierarchy of American culture will suddenly become inverted, as in 1995�s White Man�s Burden, an awful thought experiment of a film, starring John Travolta, that envisions an upside-down world in which whites are subjugated to their high-class black oppressors. There will be dislocations and resentments along the way, but the demographic shifts of the next 40 years are likely to reduce the power of racial hierarchies over everyone�s lives, producing a culture that�s more likely than any before to treat its inhabitants as individuals, rather than members of a caste or identity group. The fact is that no one can say for certain what multicultural America without a white majority will be like. There is no scientific or historical basis for claims like �the demographic shifts of the next 40 years are likely to reduce the power of racial hierarchies over everyone�s lives, producing a culture that�s more likely than any before to treat its inhabitants as individuals, rather than members of a caste or identity group.� Indeed, there is no evidence at all that we are proceeding to a color blind future. The election results continue to show that white people are coalescing in the Republican Party, while the Democrats are increasingly the party of a non-white soon-to-be majority. Is it so hard to believe that when this coalition achieves a majority that it will further compromise the interests of whites far beyond contemporary concerns such as immigration policy and affirmative action? Hsu anticipates a colorblind world, but affirmative action means that blacks and other minorities are certainly not treated as individuals. And it means that whites � especially white males � are losing out on opportunities they would have had without these policies and without the massive non-white immigration of the last few decades. Given the intractability of changing intelligence and other traits required for success in the contemporary economy, it is unlikely that 40 more years of affirmative action will attain the outcomes desired by the minority lobbies. Indeed, in Obama's America, blacks are rioting in Oakland over perceived racial injustices, and from 2002 �2007, black juvenile homicide victims increased 31%, while black juvenile homicide perpetrators increased 43%. Hence, the reasonable outlook is for a continuing need for affirmative action and for racial activism in these groups, even after whites become a minority. Whites will also lose out because of large-scale importation of relatively talented immigrants from East Asia. Indeed, as I noted over a decade ago, "The United States is well on the road to being dominated by an Asian technocratic elite and a Jewish business, professional, and media elite." Hsu shows that there already is considerable anxiety among whites about the future. An advertizing executive says, �I think white people feel like they�re under siege right now � like it�s not okay to be white right now, especially if you�re a white male. ... People are stressed out about it. �We used to be in control! We�re losing control�� Another says, "There�s a lot of fear and a lot of resentment." It's hard to see why these feelings won't increase in the future. A huge problem for white people is lack of intellectual and cultural confidence. Hsu quotes Christian (Stuff White People Like) Lander saying, "I get it: as a straight white male, I�m the worst thing on Earth." A professor comments that for his students "to be white is to be culturally broke. The classic thing white students say when you ask them to talk about who they are is, �I don�t have a culture.� They might be privileged, they might be loaded socioeconomically, but they feel bankrupt when it comes to culture � They feel disadvantaged, and they feel marginalized." This lack of cultural confidence is no accident. For nearly 100 years whites have been subjected to a culture of critique emanating from the most prestigious academic and media institutions. And, as Hsu points out, the most vibrant and influential aspect of American popular culture is hip-hop�a product of the African American urban culture. The only significant group of white people with any cultural confidence centers itself around country music, NASCAR, and the small town values of traditional white America. For this group of whites � and only this group � there is "a racial pride that dares not speak its name, and that defines itself through cultural cues instead�a suspicion of intellectual elites and city dwellers, a preference for folksiness and plainness of speech (whether real or feigned), and the association of a working-class white minority with 'the real America.'� This is what I term implicit whiteness � implicit because explicit assertions of white identity have been banned by the anti-white elites that dominate our politics and culture. It is a culture that, as Hsu notes, "cannot speak its name." But that implies that the submerged white identity of the white working class and the lack of cultural confidence exhibited by the rest of white America are imposed from outside. Although there may well be characteristics of whites that facilitate this process, this suppression of white identity and interests is certainly not the natural outcome of modernization or any other force internal to whites as a people. In my opinion, it is the result of the successful erection of a culture of critique in the West dominated by Jewish intellectual and political movements. The result is that educated, intellectually insecure white people these days are far more likely to believe in the utopian future described by Hsu than in hard and cautious thinking about what the future might have in store for them. It's worth dwelling a bit on the intellectual insecurity of the whites who mindlessly utter the mantras of multiculturalism that they have soaked up from the school system and from the media. Most people do not have much confidence in their intellectual ability and look to elite opinion to shape their beliefs. As I noted elsewhere, A critical component of the success of the culture of critique is that it achieved control of the most prestigious and influential institutions of the West, and it became a consensus among the elites, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. Once this happened, it is not surprising that this culture became widely accepted among people of very different levels of education and among people of different social classes. Most people are quite insecure about their intellectual ability. But they know that the professors at Harvard, and the editorial page of the New York Times and the Washington Post, and even conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are all on page when it comes to racial and ethnic issues. This is a formidable array, to the point that you almost have to be a crank to dissent from this consensus. I think one of the greatest triumphs of the left has been to get people to believe that people who assert white identity and interests or who make unflattering portrayals of organized Jewish movements are morally degenerate, stupid, and perhaps psychiatrically disturbed. Obviously, all of these adjectives designate low status. The reality is that the multicultural emperor has no clothes and, because of its support for racial Zionism and the racialism of ethnic minorities in America, it is massively hypocritical to boot. The New York Times, the academic left, and the faux conservatives that dominate elite discourse on race and ethnicity are intellectually bankrupt and can only remain in power by ruthlessly suppressing or ignoring the scientific findings. This is particularly a problem for college-educated whites. Like Fitzgerald's Tom Buchanan, such people have a strong need to feel that their ideas are respectable and part of the mainstream. But the respectable mainstream gives them absolutely nothing with which to validate themselves except perhaps the idea that the world will be a better place when people like them no longer have power. Hsu quotes the pathetic Christian Lander: "�Like, I�m aware of all the horrible crimes that my demographic has done in the world. ... And there�s a bunch of white people who are desperate � desperate � to say, �You know what? My skin�s white, but I�m not one of the white people who�s destroying the world.�� As a zombie leftist during the 1960s and 1970s, I know what that feeling of desperation is like � what it's like to be a self-hating white. We must get to the point where college-educated whites proudly and confidently say they are white and that they do not want to become a minority in America. This reminds me of the recent docudrama Milk, which depicts the life of gay activist Harvey Milk. Milk is sure be nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture because it lovingly illustrates a triumph of the cultural left. But is has an important message that should resonate with the millions of whites who have been deprived of their confidence and their culture: Be explicit. Just as Harvey Milk advocated being openly gay even in the face of dire consequences, whites need to tell their family and their friends that they have an identity as a white person and believe that whites have legitimate interests as white people. They must accept the consequences when they are harassed, fired from their jobs, or put in prison for such beliefs. They must run for political office as openly pro-white. Milk shows that homosexuals were fired from their jobs and arrested for congregating in public. Now it's the Southern Poverty Law Center and the rest of the leftist intellectual and political establishment that harasses and attempts to get people fired. But it's the same situation with the roles reversed. No revolution was ever accomplished without some martyrs. The revolution that restores the legitimacy of white identity and the legitimacy of white interests will be no exception. But it is a revolution that is absolutely necessary. The white majority is foolish indeed to entrust its future to a utopian hope that racial and ethnic identifications will disappear and that they won�t continue to influence public policy in ways that compromise the interests of whites. It does not take an overactive imagination to see that coalitions of minority groups could compromise the interests of formerly dominant whites. We already see numerous examples in which coalitions of minority groups attempt to influence public policy, including immigration policy, against the interests of the whites. Placing ourselves in a position of vulnerability would be extremely risky, given the deep sense of historical grievance fostered by many ethnic activists and organized ethnic lobbies. This is especially the case with Jews. Jewish organisations have been unanimous in condemning Western societies, Western traditions, and Christianity, for past crimes against Jews. Similar sentiments are typical of a great many African Americans and Latinos, and especially among the ethnic activists from these groups. The �God damn America� sermon by President Obama's pastor comes to mind as a recent notorious example. The precedent of the early decades of the Soviet Union should give pause to anyone who believes that surrendering ethnic hegemony does not carry risks. The Bolshevik revolution had a pronounced ethnic angle: To a very great extent, Jews and other non-Russians ruled over the Russian people, with disastrous consequences for the Russians and other ethnic groups that were not able to become part of the power structure. Jews formed a hostile elite within this power structure � as they will in the future white-minority America; Jews were �Stalin�s willing executioners.� Two passages from my review of Yuri Slezkine's The Jewish Century seem particularly appropriate here. The first passage reminds me of the many American Jews who adopt a veneer of support for leftist versions of social justice and racial tolerance while nevertheless managing to support racial Zionism and the mass murder, torture, and incarceration of the Palestinian people in one of the largest prison systems the world has ever seen. Such people may be very different when they become a hostile elite in a white-minority America. Many of the commentators on Jewish Bolsheviks noted the �transformation� of Jews [after the Bolshevik Revolution]. In the words of [a] Jewish commentator, G. A. Landau, �cruelty, sadism, and violence had seemed alien to a nation so far removed from physical activity.� And another Jewish commentator, Ia. A. Bromberg, noted that: the formerly oppressed lover of liberty had turned into a tyrant of �unheard-of-despotic arbitrariness��. The convinced and unconditional opponent of the death penalty not just for political crimes but for the most heinous offenses, who could not, as it were, watch a chicken being killed, has been transformed outwardly into a leather-clad person with a revolver and, in fact, lost all human likeness. ... After the Revolution, ... there was active suppression of any remnants of the older order and their descendants. ... The mass murder of peasants and nationalists was combined with the systematic exclusion of the previously existing non-Jewish middle class. The wife of a Leningrad University professor noted, �in all the institutions, only workers and Israelites are admitted; the life of the intelligentsia is very hard� (p. 243). Even at the end of the 1930s, prior to the Russification that accompanied World War II, �the Russian Federation�was still doing penance for its imperial past while also serving as an example of an ethnicity-free society� (p. 276). While all other nationalities, including Jews, were allowed and encouraged to keep their ethnic identities, the revolution remained an anti-majoritarian movement. The difference from the Soviet Union may well be that in white-minority America it will not be workers and Israelites who are favored, but non-whites and Israelites. Whites may dream that they are entering the post-racial utopia imagined by their erstwhile intellectual superiors. But it is quite possible that they are entering into a racial dystopia of unimaginable cruelty in which whites will be systematically excluded in favor of the new elites recruited from the soon-to-be majority. It's happened before. Kevin MacDonald is a professor of psychology at California State University�Long Beach. Permanent URL with hyperlinks: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Hsu.html ----------- Should Christians Support Israeli Terrorism in Gaza? A timely discussion between Rev. Ted Pike and Dr. David Duke, one especially important for the Christians in our audience http://www.davidduke.com/mp3/dukeradio090122DukeandPikeonGaza.mp3 In this vital discussion, Rev. Pike and Dr. Duke explore the Pro-Israel attitude of some Christian evangelical organizations, and why their position not only goes directly against Christian morality and decency, but actually is directly opposite of that expressed by Christian Scriptures. Today, Many Christians are instructed that Jews and today�s Israel has a special covenant� with God. In fact, the New Testament in the clearest of language states that the Jews �continued not in my covenant, and I considered them not, saith the Lord.� Here�s the quote that Christians aren�t supposed to notice.: 8:10 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. (Hebrews 8:10) They also don�t seem to notice that a 2000 year old Judaic war against Christianity that has been waged since time of Jesus Christ and still goes on today with the most powerful Jewish organizations attempting to destroy European and American traditions, that has even become a war on our Christmas traditions. Dr. Duke and Ted Pike also speak about how over a hundred thousand Christian Palestinians have suffered with their families from anti-Christian Israel! Christian support of Israel has resulted in the very birthplace of Jesus Christ, go from 90 percent Palestinian Christians to 35 percent today because of Israeli terror and occupation. They ask, �How could any Christian in good conscience support the anti-Christian state of Israel, bombing the homes, killing and maiming, torturing and oppressing fellow Christian men, women and children?� This is a vital show for every Christian reader and listener of DavidDuke.com. Next time, you hear someone say, �God tells us that we must support Israel� you will have the clear Christian answer that just the opposite is true! For documentation on this be sure to read some of the well-footnoted, sample chapters of Jewish Supremacism and My Awakening. Source : http://www.davidduke.com/general/should-christians-support-israeli-terroris… ------------------------------------- You or someone using your email adress is currently subscribed to the Lawrence Auster Newletter. If you wish to unsubscribe from our mailing list, please let us know by calling to 1 212 865 1284 Thanks, Lawrence Auster, 238 W 101 St Apt. 3B New York, NY 10025 Contact: lawrence.auster(a)att.net -------------------------------------

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[chicago-lisp] BArcamp Chicago 2008 in 26 hours
by Jason Rexilius 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hey Everyone! We are starting set-up this evening and BARcamp officially starts 11:00 Saturday morning! Some photos of the venue have been uploaded, kegs are on the way, food is being ordered. Crazy, but its all coming together. Saturday 10:00am August 16th at 1240 W Harrison, Chicago IL. http://barcampchicago.com/ The Erlang Workshop starts at noon and kicks off a weekend long Erlang code competition. There are, as always, some great talks planned and even more great talks that aren't planned ;-) Thanks to the organizers and sponsors for making this happen! Look forward to seeing you all this weekend. -jason

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[chicago-lisp] BARcamp Chicago Aug 15th!
by Jason Rexilius 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hey Everyone, BARcamp Chicago 2008 is coming up in a week and a half! The weekend of Aug 15th at 1240 W. Harrison St (UIC area). Wow, time flies. Its being held at the Innovation Center at UIC which is this cool new space for tech commercialization projects. I posted a couple of snapshots on the wiki: http://barcampchicago.com/WherePage Sean Johnson is working on the Food and I know its going to be impossible, but we'd like to try and estimate the amount. Can people either reply to me or add their name to the wiki? http://barcampchicago.com/AttendeeList -or- barcamp-subscribe(a)corp.hostedlabs.com One of the really cool events happening at BARcamp this year is an Erlang workshop being given by Martin Logan and Erlang User group team. If you dont know about Erlang, its a very cool Functional language thats good for distributed computing. Martin and others at Orbitz are putting some Erlang code into production and they have an open source project that they are putting out I believe. As with every year, we have lots of cool talks lined up and I expect a lot more to develop over the weekend. The Chicago LUG is donating a keg, like the previous years and the organizers have been working like crazy. Its coming together despite my being a disorganized slacker ;-) CALL FOR HELP: 1) RSVP in some form or fashion, (call me, email, join the list, add to wiki). Need to size catering. 2) Get your company to participate, sposnor, bring schwag, give a talk about technology you are using or building. 3) Give a talk. 4) Spread the word. Also note: Social Dev Camp is coming up this weekend, at IIT. Check it out: http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialDevCampChicago Thats it for now. Looking forward to seeing you all next weekend! -jason jason(a)hostedlabs.com 847.208.1000

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[chicago-lisp] BARcamp 2008
by Jason Rexilius 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hey Everyone! Its time for BARcamp Chicago 2008! Last years was great and this year will be even better. A quick intro for those who dont know: BARcamp Chicago as a weekend long (60 hours straight) technology fest. People call it an "un-conference" or a "user-defined conference" or a "Burning Man for coding". It happens once a year here in Chicago and is free to all. Come give a talk, listen, learn, code and drink. FYI- BARcamp is not about bar's but a play on FOO=BAR and Oreillys private camp called FoO camp (Friends of Oreilly) in the Valley. We are shooting for the weekend of August 15th, but here is the rub. (like every year) we need to find a venue. Requirements for space are: 1) In Chicago 2) Open for use the whole weekend, 24 hours a day. 3) Allow beer and drinks (most colleges dont). 4) Room for ~300 people. We have event insurance and can chip in cash if our sponsors are good to us this year ;-) And as always, sponsors are welcome. We have no prospectus or ROI or anything and no set amounts. If you are start-up chip in $50 or whatever you can spare, if you are further along, help out the community ;-) Its really about YOU, the engineer, the entrepreneur, the manager, the hacker, the coder, the artist. YOU the Chicago Tech community. Come make it happen and like the previous years, have a blast! If you want to keep up with it, you can join the mailing list: send email to: barcamp-unsubscribe(a)corp.hostedlabs.com?Subject=subscribe Or check out the wiki: http://barcampchicago.com/ Feel free to ping me with questions, suggestions, offers of help ;-) -jason

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[chicago-lisp] Lisp Workshop 01: coordination/planning
by John Quigley 29 May '08

29 May '08

Let's use this thread to coordinate. The workshop is of course this coming Saturday, at 3:00pm. I have an inquiry in with the building manager requesting access to the building at 2:00pm, which will allow us some time to set things up; information on that forthcoming. === Presentation Deck and Code Demo === I'm working on the 'workshop project,' which is running a bit behind. I'm on schedule to have it completed for Saturday, though. My other task is to organize the presentation materials into a Latex deck. I can't promise I'll have the time to do this, it's a very time-consuming activity, but I'll really try. If anyone else is familiar with Latex Beamer, you could be of great assistance in helping me with this! I have materials from Craig, but I need Peter's; please email me. Craigs materials are here: * http://rimpoche.chi.il.us/macros/macros.html * http://rimpoche.chi.il.us/macros/debugging-log.lisp * http://rimpoche.chi.il.us/macros/form-bind.lisp === Workshop DVD === Grant is taking charge of the workshop DVD, it sounds as if everything is moving smoothly on that front. Thanks very much for the updates and excellent wiki page detailing this effort, Grant. The wiki page: * http://www.chicagolisp.org/wiki/doku.php?id=giftbag === A/V Facilities === We need lots of help here. The Institute of Design has lots of A/V equipment. I have an initial inquiry out with the building manager, but I need someone to pickup the slack here to figure out what is needed. I'm an A/V dummy and have too much on my plate as it is. === Workshop Floats === We need more floaters, folks who are competent with certain aspects that we'll be covering, who can go around the room and assist people. Please sign up at page bottom: * http://www.chicagolisp.org/wiki/doku.php?id=lispworkshop#coordination === Workshop Format === We need someone to finalize on the format. My basic thoughts: 1) Setting up a Lips environment I'll have some basic materials on-line by Thursday that describe the procedure. I'll advertise this, and hopefully people will come prepared. There will be stragglers. During the workshop, I'll start off with a basic introduction of our group, members and how to operate in Lisp. This will be mostly free-form, I don't believe I'll have time to put together formal slides for this part. I don't think slides are appropriate anyways, I suspect we should just thread our floaters and presenters through the room, to answer questions and assist in a hands-on way. This ad-hoc approach seems good to me; it will loosen people up and probably provide for the most efficient means to get everyone operational. This could take anywhere from between 45 to 75 minutes, with questions and hands-on help. 2) Lisp Basic Idions Peter has this covered, I'll let him fill us in with any thoughts. This will probably run approximately 60 minutes, with questions and hands-on help, I would imagine? 3) Macros Craig and Eli will be covering this. They're pretty organized in that they have all material together already, thanks guys. They'll be doing code demos among other things, so this could take anywhere between 45 and 75 minutes, with questions and hands-on help. 4) Code Demo I've got this one covered. It's going to be a fairly simple chat server that people can use a basic telnet client to connect with. This will be a partial code-review, demonstration of some neat aspects (lots of focus on runtime patching, for instance), and iterative design. This will probably run 60 minutes, with questions and hands-on help. Total running time appears to be approximately 4 hours of raw presentation, not including break time. We should probably have a good-sized break between (3) and (4), to liven people up. === Beverages and Food === We had an offer for sponsorship from Obtiva, can someone follow-up on this? Food and drink are allowed at the Institute of Design, including beer. I'll probably be bringing some microbrews, if others could do that same, that would be great. There's also the question of whether we should go out to dinner afterwards? We'll have a lot of new people, both from Chicago and from (way?) out of town, so this might be nice to do. Thoughts? We'd want an organizer for this as well. === Conclusion === What more can I say, there's lots left to do, so please give us a hand. Thanks very much, hope everyone is well. - John Quigley

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[chicago-lisp] Chicago Lisp meeting and workshop
by John Quigley 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hey Folks: Chicago Lisp is meeting this coming Friday, May 16 at 7:00pm. We'll be at the CashNetUSA Offices, at 200 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60606 [1]. Slated presentations to be: - An Object System Using Macros (Grant Rattke) - Kawa and Clojure (Steve Githens) I'd also like to notify you that we'll be hosting a 3- to 4-hour Lisp Workshop for beginners, the purpose of which will be to get you entirely bootstrapped and productive in a Lisp environment by the time you leave. We'll be hosting this on Saturday, May 31 at 3:00pm at the Institute of Design, at 350 N LaSalle Blvd, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60610 [2]. More information about this on our wiki [3]. Please visit us at our new homepage: http://www.chicagolisp.org/ and consider joining our discussion list for event notifications: https://www.chicagolisp.org/lists/listinfo/chicago-lisp-discuss Sorry for this off-topic email to your list, it will be the last. We're a new group and we're simply trying to get the word out to Chicago developers about our existence. We're open to absolutely everyone, and we'd love to meet you, so please consider joining us. Thanks very much, and, All my best, John Quigley [1] CashNetUSA Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/5n9pms [2] Institute of Design Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/34gkzt [3] Lisp Workshop info: http://www.chicagolisp.org/wiki/doku.php?id=lispworkshop

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[chicago-lisp] Re: [chi-lisp] Planning for the Intro to Lisp Workshop
by John Quigley 06 May '08

06 May '08

Peter Christensen wrote: > I pasted the info from my page onto that Wiki. I'll try to keep my page > up to date with what goes on the Wiki. Note also that the conference room I intend to use, contrary to what the website says, will be on the 2nd floor of ID, not the 4th. Please update materials, sorry for not clarifying this initially. ID has at least floors 2 through 6, so we'll have to be careful to not confuse people! - John Quigley

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[chicago-lisp] Re: [chi-lisp] Planning for the Intro to Lisp Workshop
by John Quigley 06 May '08

06 May '08

Peter Christensen wrote: > John (or anyone who knows): > I'm working on the facilities plan for the Intro to Lisp > workshop at the end of the month, and there were a few questions I had > (some only need answers, some need action): > > 1. At IoD, is it just one big room that everyone will be in or are > there different rooms where we can hold separate "tracks"? Assume that there will be a single large conference room - it's an amazing space. I will tell you that ID maintains multiple floors within their building. Some floors have pretty amazing task areas for student groups to brainstorm in. We might be able to acquire one of these larger areas (assuming there are no weekend groups working, which is rather likely), but let's not count on it for now. I'll have more information as we get closer. I also suspect we should keep the flow of this particular meeting simple for our first attempt; having multiple tracks may be overwhelming, from a coordination perspective =) > 2. What are the comfortable and legal occupancy limits (just in case > lots of people decide to come)? Assume a comfortable limit of 50. I can inquire after larger areas if this doesn't seem reasonable. We could potentially setup a small registration, disallowing non-registered people from attending this go-around. That would very likely be overkill, however. > 3. I'd like to record the presentations in as many ways as possible. Entirely agreed. I'm a media dummy though, so I'll have to let you take the lead on this. There will be plenty of outlets and other such things for ease of recording. > 4. Coordination - John, could you set CLiki or some other wiki > software on the chicagolisp.org <http://chicagolisp.org> website? > That would probably cut down on a lot of emails. I'm in the process of bringing the site up to speed. I'll have a wiki online (it won't be Lisp-based, at least for now, apologies). Thanks for your patience on this, it's been a hectic few weeks. See more here: http://www.chicagolisp.org/ > 5. Setup documentation - someone at the last meeting mentioned having > documentation on how to setup a Lisp environment - I'd like to > take a look over it and post is along with the announcements so as > many people as possible can be ready before coming. I think > that'll speed up the first session and make the most of our > limited troubleshooting resources. That was myself, and I was describing materials from my previous "micro" workshop. I'll polish those docs up and get them out the door sometime this week. Stay tuned. > I'll send out another email this week about the presentation schedule. I'm double confirming that the space is available and that someone will be available to let us in. Wait on my final word of confirmation, which should be coming in the next 24 to 48 hours. Thanks for all of the help, I'm really looking forward to this. - John Quigley

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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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