[MSLUG] MSLUG Meeting Thursday, November 27th at 7pm -- Jazz Night! (Bring Your Own Laptop)

Guillaume Germain guillaume.germain at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 23:40:43 EST 2008


Hi everybody,

This is an announce for the next meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group.

What: Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group Meeting -- Jazz Night
When: *Thursday* November 27th 7pm
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)

As some of you know, Guillaume Cartier has been working for the past
12 years on his Jazz Scheme system.  It is a powerful and complete
development environment for Scheme applications.  You can read about
it here:
http://www.jazzscheme.org

A couple of years ago, he decided to port the whole Jazz kernel to
Gambit-C Scheme and to eventually release Jazz under an Open Source
License.  With the near completion of X11 support, the time to do a
full public release is coming very close.

In order to help spot and iron out the remaining issues for a full
public release, Guillaume will be doing a "Closed Beta" release to the
participants of the MSLUG.  The release will take place at the MSLUG
meeting on November 27th.  You are encouraged to bring your own
laptop, as Guillaume will walk us through the installation of Jazz and
the creation of a simple application.  Note that Jazz should run on
Windows *and* on systems featuring an X11 server.

Thanks to Marc Feeley,  WiFi Internet access will be available at the
meeting, which should help with the whole process.

Once everybody is up and going with the system, we'll merrily go down
the mountain to the pub and celebrate the release.

Everybody is welcome.  Please spread the news around and invite
friends and colleagues.

See you there!


Guillaume


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