[boston-lisp-organizers] Lisp Meeting Status so far

[Faré]

***SPEAKERS***

ACTUALLY SCHEDULED:
* Alexey Radul <axch at mit.edu> - will speak 2008-03 [Enhancing Scheme]
* Rahul Jain <photinodecay at gmail.com> - will speak 2008-03 [DefDoc]

REPLIED POSITIVELY:
* Leonard E Frank <elf at ephemeral.net>- invited 2008-02 - maybe for
May? [Chicken's Cheney on the MTA]
* Hans Hübner <hans at huebner.org> - invited 2008-02 - maybe in April,
if we make it the 21 instead of the 28, or another month. [BKNR]
* David O'Toole <dto at gnu.org> - invited 2008-02 - maybe in May? [RLX
rogue-like game engine]
* Gary King <gwking at metabang.com> - maybe in May? April? [?]
* Greg Cooper <gcooper at itasoftware.com> - may in April? May? [FrTime?]
* Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> - invited 2008-03 [?]


TO RECONTACT LATER:
* Alistair Bridgewater <nyef at lisphacker.com> - invited 2008-02, to
recontact in 2008-11
* "Paul Graham" <pg at archub.org> - invited 2008-02, to recontact in 2008-07
* Jonathan Bachrach <jrb at csail.mit.edu>- invited 2008-02, maybe for june?
* Vyacheslav Akhmechet <coffeemug at gmail.com> - invited 2008-02, to
recontact later in 2008

REPLIED POSITIVELY WITHOUT A CONCLUSIVE DATE:
* Dan Weinreb <dlw at alum.mit.edu> - invited 2008-02
* Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> - invited 2008-02
* Kent Pitman <pitman at nhplace.com> - invited 2008-02
* Howard Cannon <hic at iname.com> - invited 2008-02
* Alan Bawden <Alan at csail.mit.edu> - invited 2008-02
* Andrew Shalit <alms at clozure.com> - invited 2008-02
* Gerald Jay Sussman <gjs at zurich.csail.mit.edu> - invited 2008-03

POLITELY DECLINED WITHOUT A CONCLUSIVE NO
* Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> - invited 2008-02

DECLINED POSITIVELY:
* Jeremy Brown <jhbrown at alum.mit.edu> - invited 2008-02
* Bernie Greenberg <BernardGreenberg at msn.com> - invited 2008-02

DID NOT REPLY (YET):
* Guy Steele <Guy.Steele at sun.com> - invited 2008-03
* Norman Ramsey <nr at eecs.harvard.edu> - invited 2008-03
* Mitchell Wand <wand at ccs.neu.edu> - invited 2008-03
* Dan Corkill <corkill at cs.umass.edu> - invited 2008-03
* Mark Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> - invited 2008-03
* Rich Hickey <richhickey at gmail.com> - invited 2008-03
* Howard E. Shrobe <hes at csail.mit.edu> - invited 2008-03
* Olin Shivers <shivers at cc.gatech.edu> - invited 2008-02
* Ivan Krstic <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>- invited 2008-03
* Allan Wechsler <acw at alum.mit.edu> - invited 2008-02
* Gail Zacharias <gz at clozure.com> - invited 2008-02
* Henry Lieberman <lieber at media.mit.com> - invited 2008-02
* Jeannine Mosely <j9 at alum.mit.edu> - invited 2008-02
* Chris Hanson <cph at chris-hanson.org> - invited 2008-02
* Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> - invited 2008-03
* Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff at knauth.org> - invited 2008-03

TO CONTACT:
* Add your favorite speaker...



*** SPONSORS ***

BEING DISCUSSED
* ITA Software - Cara Kretz <cara at itasoftware.com> - concrete
negociations so far look promiseful; we might get a $1000 per meeting
budget, plus room and equipment. Nothing confirmed yet. Answer
hopefully by end of March.
* 2IS - Glenn House <glenn_house at 2is-inc.com> - will meet in March.
* Clozure - not approached yet. Anyone knows who there to contact?
* Any other idea?


*** INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE ***
DONE:
* a public mailing-list with archives
* a private mailing-list with archives

TO ENHANCE:
* a blog for announcements - so far my blog as a stop gap.
* a tool for registration of attendees, to size the food order - so
far my mailbox

TODO:
* a static site to publish background, status, links - nothing?
* pictures of previous meetings - a flickr account?
* videos of previous speeches - a youtube account?
* a private wiki for data such as this -  zoho account?

* invite more of the declared organizers?