[boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Wednesday June 25th 2008, 6pm at NEU Shillman Hall Room 135

[Faré]

Fair enough. I'll reword my call for registration. How about that?

"Note: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I
work there), is kindly sponsoring a dinner for our Monthly Boston Lisp
Meeting. Dinner will be offered to all who come listen to the talks.
However, so as to make our ordering process easier, we appreciate if
you register by email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at
common-lisp.net with a list of attendees and any food taboos. Your
identities will be kept confidential and not transmitted to anyone,
not even our kind sponsor."

As a matter of fact, I have outsourced registration and don't know
myself the identities of who registers, only the head count.

In any case, thanks for the feedback.

PS: please keep discussion on the boston-lisp mailing-list and not the
cross-posted mailing-lists. My bad for having made it all too easy to
reply to too many mailing-lists.

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2008/6/6 Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org>:
> I almost mentioned the food RSVP thing myself, so I'm glad Kent mentioned
> it.
>
> The main issue is that registering for food was a hurdle and a commitment,
> which meant that, being an engineer/process type, I deferred planning to
> attend until I was confident I'd be available and could RSVP.
>
> I suppose a secondary issue for some people is that they're averse to "being
> on lists" (no LISP pun intended).  I think part of the success of getting
> reclusive LISPers on the "boston-lisp-announce" email list was guaranteeing
> them they wouldn't be hassled.
>
> In case of Boston Lisp Meeting, with the sponsor of the food being ITA,
> there might have been some ambiguity as to who sees the list, as opposed to
> just a headcount.  Probably anyone who has talked to independent Boston-area
> IT recruiters in the last couple years is well aware of their aggressive and
> sometimes sly pitching of ITA, so the term "ITA" might be associated in
> their minds with wanting to be *removed* from lists. :)
>
>
> Kent M Pitman wrote at 06/06/2008 11:29 PM:
>
>> > The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on May 28th was
>
>> > a success despite only 34 participants.
>
>> Could be the light rain, or maybe people are intimidated
>
>> by the high concentration of elite lisp hackers
>
>
>
> I'm rarely intimidated by either of these, but, FWIW, it could be the
> advanced registration for food.