From feeley at iro.umontreal.ca Thu May 3 07:24:20 2012 From: feeley at iro.umontreal.ca (Marc Feeley) Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 07:24:20 -0400 Subject: [MSLUG] Boston Lisp meeting teleconference In-Reply-To: <783DA1B6-4869-4820-93ED-E908656D4577@iro.umontreal.ca> References: <783DA1B6-4869-4820-93ED-E908656D4577@iro.umontreal.ca> Message-ID: <0E924508-8939-41AC-962E-A829D24E9076@iro.umontreal.ca> On 2012-04-21, at 7:11 PM, Marc Feeley wrote: > Hello everyone. It is high time to plan the next meeting! Unfortunately I don't have a presenter lined up. > > On the other hand, I was contacted by Fran?ois-Ren? Rideau who runs the Boston Lisp meetings (http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html). He has proposed that we try to arrange a teleconferencing setup so that we can join their meeting. I'll be testing the Google Hangout software to see if it is suitable for this. > > The next Boston Lisp meeting is on Thursday May 17 at 6PM. The main attraction is Zach Beane who'll talk about Quicklisp. > > So I'd like to know who is interested in coming. We'll meet at the usual place (Universit? de Montr?al). I have only received 2 positive answers. If you are interested in having a teleconference with the Boston Lisp group on May 17, please speak up! Marc > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Francois-Rene Rideau > Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 23:59 > Subject: [Pl-seminar] Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-05-17 Zach > Beane on Quicklisp > To: pl-seminar at lists.ccs.neu.edu > > > Boston Lisp Meeting: > Thursday 2012-05-17 > Zach Beane on Quicklisp > > http://fare.livejournal.com/166595.html > > A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, May 17th 2012 at 1800 at MIT > 32-D463 (Star conference room). Zach Beane will speak about Quicklisp. > > Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. James Knight will discuss his > ideas on how Common Lisp hackers could better collaborate. Fran?ois-Ren? Rideau > will present recent Common Lisp hacks including ASDF 2.21, ?-reader, > inferior-shell, and more. > > 1 Zach Beane on Quicklisp > > Quicklisp is a library manager for Common Lisp. It works with your existing > Common Lisp implementation to download, install, and load any of over 700 > libraries with a few simple commands. http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ > > Zach Beane, also known as Xach, is a Common Lisp hacker known for the cool toys > he builds and his "just do it" attitude. > > 2 Lightning Talks > > At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed > 5-minute "Lightning Talks" each followed by 2 minutes for questions and > answers. > > James Knight will discuss his ideas on what Common Lisp hackers could do to > improve how they share software. > > Fran?ois-Ren? Rideau will present recent Common Lisp hacks: xcvb, asdf, > package-renaming, asdf-encodings, asdf-bundle, ?-reader, reader-interception, > inferior-shell, rpm, fare-memoization, fare-utils. > > 3 Time and Location > > The Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, May 17th 2012 at 1800 (6pm) at > MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room). > > The Star conference room, MIT 32-D463 on the fourth floor of the Ray and Maria > Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge MA 02139. NB: there are two sets of > elevators, you want to use those on the south-western side, further away from > Main St. > > MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32 > > Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stata+Center,+Vassar+Street,+Cambridge,+MA > > Many thanks go to Professor Gerald J. Sussman for arranging for the room, and > to MIT for welcoming us. > > 4 Dinner > > We don't have any sponsors to offer us dinner, but we're big boys and can > provide for ourselves. Before we start the conference, we'll organize a big > pizza order, where those who want can chip in; after the conference is when > we'll eat it. > > 5 More about the Meeting > > We are resuming the Boston Lisp Meeting after a hyatus of over a year and a > half. > > We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all the other > details are at: http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html Volunteers to give > Lightning Talks are also sought. http://fare.livejournal.com/143723.html > > For more information, see our web site http://boston-lisp.org/ For posts > related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: > http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting > or subscribe to our RSS feed: > http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting > > Please forward this information to people you think would be interested. Please > accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. My > apologies if this announce gets posted to a list where it shouldn't, or fails > to get posted to a list where it should. Feedback welcome by private email > reply to fare at tunes.org. From feeley at iro.umontreal.ca Wed May 16 07:19:43 2012 From: feeley at iro.umontreal.ca (Marc Feeley) Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 07:19:43 -0400 Subject: [MSLUG] Boston Lisp meeting teleconference In-Reply-To: <0E924508-8939-41AC-962E-A829D24E9076@iro.umontreal.ca> References: <783DA1B6-4869-4820-93ED-E908656D4577@iro.umontreal.ca> <0E924508-8939-41AC-962E-A829D24E9076@iro.umontreal.ca> Message-ID: <3B6D137B-5F24-428A-A66C-7AB0747CA17B@iro.umontreal.ca> On 2012-05-03, at 7:24 AM, Marc Feeley wrote: > On 2012-04-21, at 7:11 PM, Marc Feeley wrote: > >> Hello everyone. It is high time to plan the next meeting! Unfortunately I don't have a presenter lined up. >> >> On the other hand, I was contacted by Fran?ois-Ren? Rideau who runs the Boston Lisp meetings (http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html). He has proposed that we try to arrange a teleconferencing setup so that we can join their meeting. I'll be testing the Google Hangout software to see if it is suitable for this. >> >> The next Boston Lisp meeting is on Thursday May 17 at 6PM. The main attraction is Zach Beane who'll talk about Quicklisp. >> >> So I'd like to know who is interested in coming. We'll meet at the usual place (Universit? de Montr?al). > > I have only received 2 positive answers. If you are interested in having a teleconference with the Boston Lisp group on May 17, please speak up! > > Marc Unfortunately, due to the lack of confirmed participants, I am canceling the meeting scheduled for tomorrow (May 17). I think having teleconference meetings with the Boston Lisp group is a good idea but it simply doesn't make sense to go through all the trouble to set things up for the teleconference in a single location for a small number of people. Marc