Hi,
Right now there are 78 subscribers to this list.
The main reason why we created this list is that many subscribers to the Benelux, Cologne and Hamburg mailing lists subscribe to all three lists and started to crosspost more and more often. In Amsterdam and in Cologne we talked about creating a mailing list for all Lispers in Europe, but nothing came out of it for a couple of months. Until we received another volley of triply (if that's not English, I'm sure it's pan-European ;-) crossposted messages last week, and Pascal Costanza suggested that we finally do something about it. Mario Mommer volunteered to create the mailing list on common-lisp.net, and Tayssir John Gabbour and I volunteered to be the list admins.
So here we are.
My personal idea about this list is that it could be a useful channel for: - announcing and discussing Lisp user group meetings that are taking place everywhere in Europe - announcing and discussing Lisp-related jobs, courses and anything else that may require face-to-face contact with Lispers 'in the neighbourhood' (as in "not more than a couple of hours by car, train or plane") - talking about Lisp with people you may have actually met in real life instead of just a bunch of strangers from all over the world.
But these are just my own ideas. I'd be interested in hearing yours as well.
Arthur
P.S. About using languages other than English: we've been discussing this briefly on the Cologne mailing list, and even on that list we already had diverging opinions. Personally, I love all kinds of language and all kinds of languages and I think it's fine if people use French, Finnish or even Dutch on this list. But I expect that not everybody will agree and we'll probably never reach a consensus on this. I suggest that we just wait and see what happens before making a problem out of this.