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[chicago-lisp] Recap of 4/18 Chicago Lisp Meeting
by Peter Christensen 01 May '08

01 May '08

Recap of 4/18 meeting: http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/recap-of-4182008-chicago-lisp-mee… *ITEMS OF BUSINESS*: ** *Name* - None of the name ideas got much support, so we're sticking with Chicago Lisp until someone comes up with something awesomer. ** *Project* - No one had any ideas for or time to work on a project as a group so that's also waiting for an awesomer idea. *Server* - John and Craig both have servers where they can host things but not allow remote access to. John has a basic homepage at http://www.chicaglisp.org and has a mailing list<http://https//www.chicagolisp.org/lists/listinfo/chicago-lisp-discuss>setup. There might be a wiki in the future. Meeting announcements and recaps will continue to be on Peter's Chicago Lisp page<http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/chicago-lisp>and then cross posted to the two mailing lists and the chicagolisp.org site. *Next Meeting* *WHEN*: Friday, May 16th at 7pm. ** *WHERE*: TBD (suggest a place <chicago-lisp-discuss(a)chicagolisp.org>) ** *WHAT*: Lightning talks. The following people have signed up, more welcome (email Peter <http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/chicago-lisp> if interested or add a comment at Coordinatr <http://coordinatr.com/events/home/3bbndi8iji>) - Grant Rattke - A simple object system using macros - Steve Githens - TBD - Dry runs from the people presenting at the Intro to Lisp Workshop *Intro to Lisp Workshop*: We did some pre-planning and delegation. See details here<http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/announcing-intro-to-lisp-workshop/>. ** *Presentation on Combined Object-Lambda Architectures (COLAs)*: The inagural presentation of our group was about the work done by the Viewpoints Research Institure (VPRI) <http://www.vpri.org/>. The most recognizable name associated with this is Alan Kay, Mr. Invent the Future himself. John Quigley made an excellent slide deck<http://www.pchristensen.com/20080418-jquigley-colas.pdf>(pdf) where he reviewed the paper "Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke" <http://piumarta.com/software/cola/colas-whitepaper.pdf>(pdf) by Ian Piumarta and put into slightly more comprensible language. This paper is for the Fundamental New Computer Technologies<http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm>project at VPRI. The aim of the project is to create a complete computing system in 20,000 lines of code. This system would be everything from the hardware to the UI and include both design and implementation. Having such a compact system would be a useful exploration and learning tool, so every part of it can be inspected and manipulated. They're currently 18 months into a 5 year project but they already have made intriguing progress. John's presentation was about the architecture of the self bootstrapping system. I can't claim that I understood it all, or even most of it. I was able to keep up mostly because I had come across VPRI's work on Jeff Moser's blog earlier in the week so I was familiar with the overview. What I did sort of grasp boggled my mind and definintely but VPRI on my technical radar, if for no other reason than as a technical challenge to aspire to. If you can understand everything in Piumarta's paper (or even in John's summary deck), you're a whiz. If not, don't feel bad. I would recommend reading the NSF proposal <http://www.vpri.org/pdf/NSF_prop_RN-2006-002.pdf>(pdf) and the first year progress report <http://www.vpri.org/pdf/steps_TR-2007-008.pdf> (pdf). They're in more accessible, less technically deep language and they have pretty pictures. Thanks John for setting the bar high right out of the gate! On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Peter Christensen <peter(a)pchristensen.com> wrote: > 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------ 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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[chicago-lisp] Chicago Lisp Meetup - Friday, March 21, 7pm
by Peter Christensen 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Dear Chicago Lispers, I'm proud to announce the most recent attempt to organize a Chicago Lisp User Group. Through some off-channel disuccion with about 10 people, we've set our first meeting time and place. Friday, March 21, 2008 7:00pm Ambrosia Cafe <http://www.ambrosiahookah.com/> 1963 N. Sheffield, Chicago <http://tinyurl.com/2s6apg> Near the Brown/Purple Line Armitage stop You're welcome to come and try to have some input into this first of hopefully many meetings! Some of the things that we'll talk about are: 1. Who is everyone and what are they working on? 2. How often would we like to have meetings? 3. Where would we like to meet? Same place, rotating locations, city/suburbs, anyone's job willing to host, etc 4. What should the scope of the group be? Just Lisp/Scheme, or include other functional/obscure languages, etc 5. Any common goals or efforts 6. Have fun and get to know each other! We'll spend a little while on the first 5, but mostly do #6. Invite friends, co-workers, etc. See you there! -- ------------------------------------------------------ Peter Christensen http://www.pchristensen.com/ peter(a)pchristensen.com

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[chicago-lisp] ANN: TechCoffee, Season Five!
by John Melesky 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Short version: Starting Monday, Feb 11, 6:30AM, for 10 weeks, at the Same Ol' Caribou Coffee (at the NW corner of LaSalle and Lake) Long version: It's Friday. You're looking forward to the weekend, where you will sit back and relax. But don't you have a patch you're working on? Isn't your blog comment system still screwed up? How about that business idea that really should only need a couple days' worth of coding, but that you just haven't gotten around to? That, my friends, is what TechCoffee is for. A few hours of productivity, once a week. Why are you productive at TechCoffee? Because everyone there is working, and there's power in numbers. It's like a quilting bee, or a running club. Only for coders. Because we work at the productive hours of the day, before the coding life has been drained out of you by a workday of meetings and drudgery. Are you ready? Okay. Show up to the Caribou Coffee at LaSalle and Lake (conveniently located near *every* L line) at 6:30AM Monday morning. Once you're there, code. Promise someone that you'll be there the following Monday. Repeat. Or, if you're feeling advanced, remember that the season goes for ten weeks. Plan milestones. Get all project-managerish. Make a chart. Just remember to code, too. I promise y'all that i'll be there Monday morning, 6:30AM. I'll bring a power strip, too. And i'm gonna code. -johnnnnnnnn ps- Check http://techcoffee.com/ for more info (well, actually, for pretty much the same info). pps- This is the location: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=200+N+Lasalle,+Chicago,+il…

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[chicago-lisp] 1st call for participation AFP 2008, The Netherlands
by Peter Achten 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

1ST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 6TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 2008 (AFP ’08) RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN AND UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS MAY 19-24, 2008 http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/ AFP is a series of international summer schools which aims to bring computer scientists, in particular young researchers and programmers, up to date with the latest advances in practical advanced functional programming. Functional programming emphasizes the evaluation of expressions rather than the execution of commands. We focus on functional programming techniques in “programming in the real world” and bridge the gap between results presented at programming conferences and material from textbooks on functional programming. In this school you will receive in depth lectures about advanced functional programming techniques, taught by experts in the field. Lectures are accompanied by practical problems to be solved by the students at the school. AFP 2008 is hosted by the Radboud University Nijmegen, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and will be held in the rural setting of Center Parcs “Het Heijderbos”, Heijen (in the vicinity of Nijmegen), The Netherlands. AFP 2008 is co-located with the 9th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP’08), which is held after AFP’08. PROGRAM INFORMATION The following speakers will give the lectures (in alphabetic order): Umut Acar (Toyota Technological Institute, University of Chicago, US) Richard Bird (University of Oxford, UK) Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus, DK) Johan Jeuring (Utrecht University, NL) Mark Jones (Portland State University, US) Ulf Norell (Chalmers University, SE) Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research, UK) Rinus Plasmeijer (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) During the summer school, all participants receive printed lecture notes. Participants are expected to have a notebook, in order to be able to participate with the practical problems. After the summer school, all lecture notes will be revised, reviewed, and published in the LNCS series of Springer. All registered participants receive a copy of these lecture notes. VENUE INFORMATION AFP (and TFP) is held in The Netherlands, at Center Parcs “Het Heijderbos” which is a holiday resort in the woodlands near the city of Nijmegen. We accomodate participants in DeLuxe Cottages, each of which has three separate bed-rooms, shared bathroom, toilet, kitchen, and terrace. Cottages will be shared by three participants. If you wish to reduce costs, you can choose to share a bedroom. The summer school and symposium will take place in the business center of the venue. Breakfast, lunch and diner is included within the limits of the venue. The resort features, amongst others, a sub-tropical swimming pool (free for participants), restaurants, shops, water sports lake, midget golf court, squash court, and outdoor and indoor tennis courts. Nijmegen is considered to be the oldest city of the Netherlands, being approximately 2000 years old. Nijmegen is located at the east border of the Netherlands, near Germany. Nijmegen can be reached easily from several airports such as Schiphol airport, Eindhoven airport, and Düsseldorf airport, as well as by train and car. Conveniently close to Center Parcs “Het Heijderbos” you will find airport Weeze in Germany. The venue Center Parcs “Het Heijderbos” can be reached from Nijmegen by train to Boxmeer (25 minutes). From there you will need to order a taxi. The venue can also be reached by car: parking is free for participants of AFP and TFP. SUMMER SCHOOL FEES AFP 2008 includes accommodation, conference, breakfast – lunch – diner, speakers, and proceedings costs. The early registration fee is € 995; the late registration fee is € 1095. Please note that if you require financial support, you can apply for a grant (see below). GRANT INFORMATION We have taken great care to reduce the registration cost as much as possible. We can grant a subsidy for a limited number of PhD student participants for whom the costs are still too high. In order to apply for this subsidy, you need to send (by surface mail or e-mail) a request for subsidy which contains your personal information, affiliation, a description of your current status, project description, a motivation why you should receive the grant, and a recommendation from your PhD supervisor. This letter should arrive before april 7 2008 to: Rinus Plasmeijer Radboud University Nijmegen Toernooiveld 1 6525ED Nijmegen rinus(a)cs.ru.nl You will receive a notification whether your request has been granted before april 14 2008. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Early registration opens at march 1 2008. Late registration opens at april 15 2008. Registration closes at may 5 2008. We can not guarantee accommodation in case you wish to register later than may 5 2008. IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2008) Early Registration Opens: March 1 Early Registration Deadline: April 14 Late Registration Opens: April 15 Late Registration Deadline: May 5 AFP Summer School: May 19-24 ORGANIZATION Programme Chair: Rinus Plasmeijer, Pieter Koopman, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Doaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University, NL Arrangements: Peter Achten, Simone Meeuwsen, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL E-mail: afp_tfp_2008(a)cs.ru.nl

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