seattle July 2006

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Fwd: Re: [LispSea] ... status update ...
by Jeff Wood 20 Aug '06

20 Aug '06

Sorry, hit reply instead of reply all. Here's a copy of my response. jd ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Jeff Wood" <jeff(a)dark-light.com> To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <bvanevery(a)gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: [LispSea] ... status update ... Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:43:59 -0700 On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:10:40 -0700, Brandon J. Van Every <bvanevery(a)gmail.com> wrote: > JD wrote: >> I'm still gathering information on who I need to talk with to get >> permission to host the users group ... Our company hosts a number of >> other groups, so I don't *think* it's going to be a problem, but ... I >> just wanted to keep everybody in the loop so you know what's going on. >> >> As always, if anybody has any one has any comments or suggestions, or >> if I can provide any additional information and/or assistance, please >> let me know ... I'm always happy to help as I can. >> >> Ciao for now. > > So what happened with this? > > > Cheers, > Brandon Van Every > > _______________________________________________ > seattle mailing list > seattle(a)common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seattle I've provided a number of people with the information, I just have to do a bit of logistics to make it happen. So, I and the persons to run the meeting will have to do a bit of conversing to make sure that everybody understands the rules that my company has in place for visitors to our environment. It looks like we can start with at least one meeting, and then go from there depending on how well it's received. jd

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[LispSea] ... status update ...
by JD 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

I'm still gathering information on who I need to talk with to get permission to host the users group ... Our company hosts a number of other groups, so I don't *think* it's going to be a problem, but ... I just wanted to keep everybody in the loop so you know what's going on. As always, if anybody has any one has any comments or suggestions, or if I can provide any additional information and/or assistance, please let me know ... I'm always happy to help as I can. Ciao for now. jd -- Greetings Starfghter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Zurr and the Codan Armada.

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[LispSea] instruction then presentation
by Daniel J Pezely 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Stating the obvious, what's needed right now is instruction. So, let's start at the beginning of shaping Seattle as a Lisp town-- shall we? After all, the more people who know Lisp locally, the better chances we all have for getting paying work doing Lisp since having a pool of talent is a requirement for most business. For the consultant's perspective (where businesses don't care what language it is, so long as the work-for-hire does what they need it to do), I would like to deploy a Lisp-based system knowing that there are others whom can continue the on-going operations. Anyone interested in teaching Lisp? Anyone have formal experience as an instructor? I believe Lisp is more about the approach than syntax or API, and that's saying a lot, considering how the "core" Common Lisp library is massive compared to the usual suspects. What's needed is a demonstration of code maturing from blank canvas to just-get-something-working to various directions of "what if?" before settling on what's right for the task at hand. We could structure our sessions with the first 30 minutes for instruction and the next hour or so as deeper presentation, show & tell, etc. Comments? -Daniel

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[LispSea] so much for stone soup
by Daniel J Pezely 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Maybe I've been stuck in an outmoded idea... Maybe there is no longer much use for the kind of users' group that I've been advocating. Then again, I foolishly expected that by putting LispSea in motion again, others would step up to action. Not words-- action. While I don't mind doing the necessary work, I won't do /all/ the work myself. I suggest continuing the mailing list solely for purposes of finding local Lisp people easily. Nothing more. That is, you won't receive another post by me on this list unless I have something like a Lisp job to be filled or the seminar/workshop effort makes real progress. Thanks for exploring this idea with me over the past month. I've already updated the wiki. http://wiki.alu.org/lispsea?version=17 Take care, -Daniel PS - if you don't know the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_soup

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