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August 2008

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[toronto-lisp] September meetup and interesting projects
by Rudolf 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

== INTERESTING PROJECTS == Name some interesting projects you're working on! Zed Shaw posted a slightly interesting article about user groups, meetups, hackerspaces, social clubs, etc: http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/the_freehackers_union.html He says, I tried a few user groups, but there's barely anyone doing anything truly interesting. I really do enjoy the people who take the time to go to a user group for their favorite tech, but at the same time I feel like they're just there to escape their jobs. That's sad because I run into people who say, "(sigh) I have to do Rails", even at the Python groups. The Python group has had two months of meetings about fucking performance tuning. I love those guys, but holy baby jesus can we just move off of cython already? I hear reports that even the iPhone and Cocoa user group is lame. I mean, that group should be going ape shit right now. Projects...someone must be doing something interesting! Phd work, grad work, web work, desktop work, work work? Tell us more, maybe even present something :D Has anyone worked with Smalltalk or C#? What are they like compared to Common Lisp and Scheme? == NEXT MEETUP == Also, we need to decide the next meetup date. I'm thinking September 11th or 18th. They're all Thursdays of course, starting at 6pm, 99% chance of being at the LinuxCaffe. There's a fine Lisp meetup calendar here (in case you're in another city?): http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pm55j8kg30dnm54ib2if9fuocc%40group… If Brian C. is still up for it, he could present at the next meetup, depending on if he's available for either of the days? -Rudolf

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[toronto-lisp] Next meetup :o August 7th?
by Rudolf 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hey, I've been neglecting my responsibilities as a Lisper and looking at JavaScript, a wee bit of Java and now Smalltalk. So the next meetup will be August 7th, which is a Thursday. After 6pm of course and I'm thinking LinuxCaffe may be fine. They don't seem to have anything planned for 7 August. Other suggestions for a location are, of course, welcome. Also, ideas for presentations are friggin' badly needed. If you named your dog Lisp, or you have a tattoo of a lambda on your arm, give a small 10min talk about it! :-D Get a presentation idea together or you'll hear some preaching on the Virtues of Emacs from me (old college presentation I did, it ended with "you're a loser if you don't use Emacs!" so uh, I don't want a repeat of that ;-) ) -Rudolf

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