MSLUG Meeting December 5th 2007 7pm -- Commercial Users of Scheme and Lisp
Greetings, this is the official announce for the next meeting of the MSLUG. What: Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group Meeting Where: Room 3195, André-Aisenstadt Building, Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la Tour (you can find a plan of the UdeM campus here: http://www.stcum.qc.ca/metro/images/c56.pdf) When: December 5th 2007 at 7pm We will have the chance to hear 4 different talks, of around 15 to 20 minutes each, about using Scheme and Lisp in a commercial setting. After the talks, those of us who feel so inclined will go down to a nearby pub to have a beer and continue the discussion. The meeting is open to everyone, feel free to invite friends and co-workers! See you next Wednesday, Guillaume * Talks Program * 1- Houman Zolfaghari : Using scheme in the industry: a possibly powerful but difficult choice Having used scheme/lisp for more than 12 years in the industry for some large scale projects, I will talk a bout my experience and my latest considerations and conclusions. ---------- 2- Dominique Boucher : Scheme in the enterprise: pitfalls to avoid In this short presentation, I will share my experience introducing Scheme in an industrial setting. I will mainly focus on how to avoid some common pitfalls. ---------- 3- Daniel Villeneuve & Alain Marcotte : Three goals, 2 companies, 1 ... Overview of 3 utilizations of scheme in two different companies where scheme is part of delivered products. A glance at the architecture and environment for those products. Survol de 3 utilisations de scheme à travers 2 entreprises: Micro-Intel (Cogniscience) et ADOPT (Kronos). Survol de l'environnement et architecture où scheme fait partie des produits livrés. ---------- 4- Guillaume Cartier : Overview of the Chyma Scheduler, a rule-based scheduler for hospitals written for IsaiX Technologies using JazzScheme under its new open source license. I will also discuss how it has been possible for us on various occasions to help clients with Lisp based solutions when the hurt was considerable and Lisp was seen as the only doctor with potent enough medicine.
Hi all, my apologies to Guillaume Cartier, I forgot to include the title of his presentation in the announce: --- 4- Guillaume Cartier : Someone called for the doctor? Overview of the Chyma Scheduler, a rule-based scheduler for hospitals written for IsaiX Technologies using JazzScheme under its new open source license. I will also discuss how it has been possible for us on various occasions to help clients with Lisp based solutions when the hurt was considerable and Lisp was seen as the only doctor with potent enough medicine. --- See you Wednesday! Guillaume
Thank you to Guillaume Germain and all the presenters at the previous meeting. Though I was quite disappointed that I arrived late and missed the first two presentations, I found that the two presentations that I did see gave me, a non-Scheme and non-Lisp programmer (yet), a much better insight into the capabilities, strengths, and applicability of Scheme and Lisp. I look forward to learning more in the future. Will the slides from the presentations (the first two, in particular) be available for download? Do any of you have Facebook accounts? Would an MSLUG group on Facebook interest anyone? With such a group, I could put more faces to names. Derek On Dec 1, 2007 12:34 PM, Guillaume Germain <guillaume.germain@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
my apologies to Guillaume Cartier, I forgot to include the title of his presentation in the announce:
--- 4- Guillaume Cartier : Someone called for the doctor?
Overview of the Chyma Scheduler, a rule-based scheduler for hospitals written for IsaiX Technologies using JazzScheme under its new open source license.
I will also discuss how it has been possible for us on various occasions to help clients with Lisp based solutions when the hurt was considerable and Lisp was seen as the only doctor with potent enough medicine. ---
See you Wednesday!
Guillaume
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Derek Mahar wrote:
Thank you to Guillaume Germain and all the presenters at the previous meeting. Though I was quite disappointed that I arrived late and missed the first two presentations, I found that the two presentations that I did see gave me, a non-Scheme and non-Lisp programmer (yet), a much better insight into the capabilities, strengths, and applicability of Scheme and Lisp. I look forward to learning more in the future.
I'm sorry that I didn't come at all: I ended up having more of a schedule conflict than I thought, as I had misread the time of the following concert.
Do any of you have Facebook accounts? Would an MSLUG group on Facebook interest anyone? With such a group, I could put more faces to names.
a face isn't defined by Facebook, any more than the concept of friends is defined by Facebook. I'm not going to get any Facebook account as I know people who were using Facebook quite a lot and decided to remove it from their lives. I would be more in favour of a custom website or generic wiki. I will not register to Facebook for the sake of any user group, even any of the ones I'm closest to. _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal QC Canada
At 4:41 PM -0500 12/7/07, Derek Mahar wrote:
Though I was quite disappointed that I arrived late and missed the first two presentations, I found that the two presentations that I did see gave me, [...]
You only missed one. the 4th got cancelled. -- Stephane! coleste@videotron.ca (Stephane Le Cornec) +------------------- Made with recycled electrons. --------------------+ | #include <disclaimer.h> Kebekkujin desu. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
participants (4)
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Derek Mahar -
Guillaume Germain -
Mathieu Bouchard -
Stephane Le Cornec