Brian Mastenbrook [bmastenbrook(a)comcast.net] wrote:
> How does Tuesday, February 1st sound?
How about Tuesday, February 1st, at 6:00 PM. I need to head back into
the city by 8:00 PM, so starting a bit earlier works for me.
--
Damien Kick
Brian Mastenbrook [bmastenbrook(a)comcast.net] wrote:
> I'm a coworker of Paul's too. :-)
Very much so, it would seem <smile>...
> There's no shortage of good restaurants between the main campus and
> Arlington Heights. Since we clearly need a first suggestion, I'm
> going to start by suggesting Olive Garden. The only one I know of is
> by Woodfield mall, but I'm sure there are others.
Your solution has the advantage of being first to market.
> Flames? Responses?
Sounds good to me.
--
Damien Kick
> I posted a link to the Chicago Lisp cliki site to
> http://chicomp.multiply.org, a calendar/wiki for Chicago based computing
> events and organizations. If Ed Summers et al sees we've scheduled a
> meeting on the mailing-list, it should show up on the events calendar
> (or one of us could even put it there :).
I just noticed the link to cliki, and have signed up on list (obviously)
so I'll take care of posting meeting annoucements there. Sorry for the
delay; and I should say it's great to see a Chicago area Lisp group start up!
//Ed
--
Ed Summers
aim: inkdroid
web: http://www.inkdroid.org
O would some Power the gift to give us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion
[Robert Burns]
Michael Lee [lee(a)iit.edu] wrote:
> Hi --- I'm a recent sign-up from the city. Could anyone briefly
> describe what would be on the agenda of such a meeting, if it were
> to take place?
Wow, an agenda? I dunno know about all that <smile>. How about we
start with some introductions, why we've subscribed to the list, etc.?
I suppose that I should eventually get around to writing up my Road To
Lisp <http://www.cliki.net/The%20Road%20to%20Lisp%20Survey>,
eventually.
Basically, I'm hoping that Chicago Lisp will be a chance to not be the
only person I know, aside from comp.lang.lisp, interested in Lisp.
I've been working for Motorola for the past eight years, developing
software related to the core mobile telephony network primarily in
C/C++ during that time, though I've been working on/with a test
execution system written in Tcl for the past year and a half, more or
less. Before that, I was an undergraduate student at Marquette
University, where I was first exposed to Lisp in an "Intro to AI"
class. It was the typical intro to Lisp. The list was the only data
structure mentioned. It was, oddly enough, a Lisp implementation
running on VAX/VMS. Probably only had an interpreter. I really liked
Lisp when I first encountered it, for some reason, I actually liked
all the parenthesis, but never had much of a chance to do anything
with it after that one class. I was reminded of Lisp, interestingly
enough, by reading things about multiple dispatch in C++ from Scott
Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu, and Bjarne Stroustrup, usually mentioning
that CLOS already had builtin support for it. I also ran across some
stuff on /. <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=lisp>
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slashdot+lisp>: Lisp as an
Alternative to Java, Kent Pitman's interview, etc. And since then,
I've read Paul Graham's _ANSI Common Lisp_, CLTL2, _Object Oriented
Programming in Common Lisp_, and I'm still working through PAIP and
AMOP.
All of this reading is all well and good but <pause> well, it's just
reading. I wish I had an excuse to use Lisp in anger. I've been
sneaking it into silly little utilities; I don't always reach for Perl
anymore. I have aikido lessons in the evenings and I don't sit in my
apartment enough on the weekends to have a lot of time to code for
fun. I'm looking for other avenues. What are other people working
on? Is anyone using any of this stuff in anger? I'm actually quite
interested to hear a bit more from Paul Dietz, as he is also a
Motorola employee. What about jobs in the Chicago area that might
involve Lisp? Personally, I don't have any idea what an agenda for
the first Chicago Lisp meeting should look like but these are some of
the general topics of interest to me. Actually, I live in Chicago
(Wicker Park) but I work in Arlington Heights; I don't really often
make it out to the suburbs on the weekends.
What about everybody else?
--
Damien Kick
Paul and Brian, as you're currently the only two to have responded but the more the merrier, if I'm remembering correctly from the archives, you both find yourself in the NW suburbs? Would either of you be interested in getting together sometime in the first half of February?
--
Damien Kick
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Mastenbrook [mailto:bmastenbrook@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 January, 2005 19:12
To: Kick Damien-DKICK1
Cc: chicago-lisp(a)common-lisp.net
Subject: Re: [chicago-lisp] All quiet on the Midwestern front?
On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Kick Damien-DKICK1 wrote:
> From the archives of this list, it would seem that things have been
> pretty quiet. There was some discussion about whether or not people
> should meet but nothing about whether or not anyone actually met.
> Have there been any gatherings?
Nope. I'm still interested but am not very good at planning anything.
I think Paul Dietz had some ideas about a first meet / dinner. Perhaps
he should come up with a suggestion? Even something where not everybody
can attend would be a decent way of getting something started (as
opposed to nothing!)
--
Brian Mastenbrook
bmastenb(a)cs.indiana.edu
http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/
>From the archives of this list, it would seem that things have been pretty quiet. There was some discussion about whether or not people should meet but nothing about whether or not anyone actually met. Have there been any gatherings?
--
Damien Kick
I posted a link to the Chicago Lisp cliki site to
http://chicomp.multiply.org, a calendar/wiki for Chicago based computing
events and organizations. If Ed Summers et al sees we've scheduled a
meeting on the mailing-list, it should show up on the events calendar
(or one of us could even put it there :).
Matt
Hello all,
Now that you've probably all forgotten about this list, it's probably a
good time to start setting up a meeting. The things we should probably
discuss are time/date, venue, and content / structure.
My suggestions are:
Time/Date: either a weeknight or weekend afternoon; any day of the week
is generally OK, but some specific dates might not work (The next
couple of weekends will be bad for me).
Location: Somewhere out towards the northwest suburbs. There is a good
chance that I can get Roosevelt University in Schaumburg to provide a
room for the meeting.
Content / structure: several other Lisp user groups organize their
meetings as presentations by a few people about a topic of interest. I
can do presentations on any number of topics (web serving with araneida
is a general topic that I could do any number of sub-presentations in).
I'm sure that other people can do interesting presentations too
(*cough* Paul :-)
My general thought is that we should set a general bound on topics as
topics relating to Lisp (Common Lisp, Scheme, ISLISP, other
recognizable lisps) and try to avoid presentations mostly relating to
other languages. However, I don't think that we should limit ourselves
to any one dialect of lisp - if we get *really* popular, there's always
the possibility of SIGs :-)
Thoughts?
--
Brian Mastenbrook
bmastenbrook(a)comcast.net
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/
