Just in case this is new to anyone: There is a larger group called the Lisp Gardeners, which is not tied to a single geography. http://www.lispniks.com/cl-gardeners/ Their mailing list started only a few months ago, so it's fairly easy to get caught-up. Consider LispSea to be /somewhat/ of a Seattle chapter yet not necessarily tied to Common Lisp. This implicit relationship also frees us from doing everything ourselves and allows constructive overlap and a loose local group (so we need not become burdened with policy or dogma). There can be much traffic on the Gardeners list. It's bursty. For a while, I simply read it periodically via the Mailman interface linked from the above URL. -Daniel PS - Please respond to the Lisp Questionnaire: http://www.xs4all.nl/~alemmens/alu/questionnaire.txt