[eurolisp] Only 10 places left for European Common Lisp Meeting
Hi, Registrations for the European Common Lisp Meeting in April have come in at an astonishing speed. Eight days after we announced the meeting, we're at 65 registrations. Our meeting room has a capacity of 75 persons, so there are only 10 seats left at the moment. If you don't want to miss the event, you should probably register now (at http://weitz.de/meeting) because it looks like it will only take a couple of days before the meeting is fully booked. Looking forward to meeting you all in Amsterdam, Edi Weitz & Arthur Lemmens
there are only 10 seats left
Did I say 10? I meant 5 ;-)
You are obviously charging too little! ;-) Good work! Will you have a live web-feed? Seriously though: have you thought of recording the presentations onto video tape/hard disk and making the talks available on the net somehow? Not only would it serve a useful purpose in promoting Lisp but would also document eurolisp's activities in a more permanent way. A simple iSight camera, Apple's free Broadcast sw so that you could dump to disk, and a powerbook with lots of free space to save the mpeg4. As long as the audio is clean and understandable then it would make a valuable archive; video quality at 320x240 or even 160x120 would suffice.
Toomas Altosaar wrote:
Did I say 10? I meant 5 ;-)
You are obviously charging too little! ;-)
I thought 'saturation marketing' was the technical term for this ;-)
Good work! Will you have a live web-feed?
Seriously though: have you thought of recording the presentations onto video tape/hard disk and making the talks available on the net somehow?
If someone volunteers to do this, I'd be happy to help.
Not only would it serve a useful purpose in promoting Lisp but would also document eurolisp's activities in a more permanent way.
Yes, I totally agree.
A simple iSight camera, Apple's free Broadcast sw so that you could dump to disk, and a powerbook with lots of free space to save the mpeg4. As long as the audio is clean and understandable then it would make a valuable archive; video quality at 320x240 or even 160x120 would suffice.
Sounds like you're the ideal volunteer... ;-) Seriously though: I'm not good at this kind of stuff myself, but I think it's a good idea and I'll gladly assist people who want to do this. It would also be nice if someone could take lots of photographs. Arthur
On 20 Feb 2005, at 13:35, Arthur Lemmens wrote:
there are only 10 seats left
Did I say 10? I meant 5 ;-)
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Are you doing anything else but counting the number of registrations? I thought you're a busy man... ;-) Pascal -- But do not try and hide the parens. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth. There are no parens. - Tayssir John Gabbour
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 02:34:45PM +0100, Pascal Costanza wrote:
On 20 Feb 2005, at 13:35, Arthur Lemmens wrote:
there are only 10 seats left
Did I say 10? I meant 5 ;-)
Four...
Three...
Are you doing anything else but counting the number of registrations? I thought you're a busy man... ;-)
Anyway, he's off by one :-) I just registered a few minutes ago. Ralf Mattes
Pascal
-- But do not try and hide the parens. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth. There are no parens. - Tayssir John Gabbour
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On 20 Feb 2005, at 16:19, Edi Weitz wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:34:45 +0100, Pascal Costanza <pc@p-cos.net> wrote:
Are you doing anything else but counting the number of registrations? I thought you're a busy man... ;-)
I guess Arthur has written a Lisp program to send the messages to Eurolisp... :)
Nonono, Lisp is for intelligent tasks! ;) Pascal -- Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. - Philip Greenspun
Nonono, Lisp is for intelligent tasks! ;) So if you were faced with an unintelligent task, would you go out and learn Perl specially? :-) Arthur / Edi: I wonder whether it's worth opening a list via the meeting website to figure out how many others might have regsitered, had they got there in time. This really does look like it doubles in scale every time you do it. On a 6-month timescale, that puts Moore's Law where it belongs. Impressive. - nick
Nick Levine wrote:
Arthur / Edi: I wonder whether it's worth opening a list via the meeting website to figure out how many others might have regsitered, had they got there in time.
I'm not sure that people will be very motivated to 'register' for something that's full anyway, but I'll talk about this with Edi next Saturday.
This really does look like it doubles in scale every time you do it. On a 6-month timescale, that puts Moore's Law where it belongs. Impressive.
I guess we should all prepare ourselves for the 728839 Lispers that Marc Battyani predicted on comp.lang.lisp. ;-) Arthur
--- Nick Levine <ndl@ravenbrook.com> wrote:
Arthur / Edi: I wonder whether it's worth opening a list via the meeting website to figure out how many others might have regsitered, had they got there in time.
This really does look like it doubles in scale every time you do it. On a 6-month timescale, that puts Moore's Law where it belongs. Impressive.
An alternative would be a simple list of registration timestamps: when the 75 people registered. No identifying info is needed, the pure times should be sufficient. It might be useful for someone to then make a quick graph and see whether it's useful (for extrapolating a guess) or not. Of course, I'm not at all knowledgeable about statistics, so I don't know how effective this may be. MfG, Tayssir __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
--- Pascal Costanza <pc@p-cos.net> wrote:
On 20 Feb 2005, at 16:19, Edi Weitz wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:34:45 +0100, Pascal Costanza <pc@p-cos.net> wrote:
Are you doing anything else but counting the number of registrations? I thought you're a busy man... ;-)
I guess Arthur has written a Lisp program to send the messages to Eurolisp... :)
Nonono, Lisp is for intelligent tasks! ;)
I have to admit though, every so often I'd also flip to that page to see how fast it was getting new people... But maybe that's partly because I'm working on a middleware contract, so I take frequent diversions. MfG, Tayssir __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
there are only 10 seats left
Did I say 10? I meant 5 ;-)
Four...
Three...
Two.... One.... Zero! Thanks a lot, everybody. I think this will be a great meeting and I'm really looking forward to it. We received some questions about the location of the meeting and the dinners, by the way. These aren't totally sure yet, but we'll let you know as soon as possible. Edi will probably create a mailing list for all participants, and we'll also put this kind of information on the web site. Arthur
participants (7)
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Arthur Lemmens -
Edi Weitz -
Nick Levine -
Pascal Costanza -
rm＠fabula.de -
Tayssir John Gabbour -
Toomas Altosaar