[MSLUG] MSLUG Meeting Thursday, November 27th at 7pm -- Jazz Night! (Bring Your Own Laptop)
Derek Mahar
derek.mahar at gmail.com
Sat Nov 15 08:40:45 EST 2008
I created a Facebook event for the meeting at
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95703060153. If you have a
Facebook account and intend to attend the actual meeting, please join
the Facebook event. It might attract some of your friends and their
friends to attend the meeting, as well.
Derek
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Guillaume Germain
<guillaume.germain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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