Another Meeting?

[Jonathan Godbout]

I would rather not add another video chat to my repertoire, so Google
Hangouts seems to be the prevailing wind.
How does Tuesday the 20th at 7 sound?
Sounds like I'll do a lightning talk, Jeff and Alex can decide on their
chosen talks, please send me
abstracts so I can add it to the website!.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:50 PM Rahul Jain <photinodecay at gmail.com> wrote:

> (Adding Arthur Smyles to the thread since he is the current organizer of
> LispNYC.)
>
> For whatever it's worth, we are using Jitsi for LispNYC, both
> presentations and social hang-outs. The presentations are also being
> simulcast to YouTube. (If you'd like to drop by our talk tomorrow, the
> details are at https://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/270506803/
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/270506803/&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw2vW8SdO2zQ1pd6dwy3ZwdU>
> )
>
> It might also be worth considering combining the groups (or separating on
> a different axis other than geographical while we are all interacting
> virtually). Might also be worth having an ongoing US-East virtual Lisp
> group that meets every couple months post-pandemic.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM Alex Plotnick <shrike at netaxs.com> wrote:
>
>> At Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:04:37 -0600, Jonathan Godbout said:
>>
>> > Are people interested in having a meeting?
>>
>> Yes, definitely!
>>
>> > Can anyone give a talk?
>>
>> I can, though it wouldn't strictly be about Lisp. My employer (osohq.com)
>> has been developing a logic programming language (i.e., a Prolog dialect)
>> focused on authorization problems, and I think both the language and its
>> implementation might be of interest. We've written an embeddable
>> interpreter
>> in Rust that communicates via FFI to a host or application language
>> such as (currently) Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, or Rust. It has
>> some features inspired by Common Lisp (e.g., multiple dispatch),
>> but mostly it's a logic language with unification & backtracking.
>> Its distinguishing feature is its ability to write rules over objects
>> and types from the host language; e.g., whatever models an application
>> uses natively. We think this is useful in certain complex authorization
>> contexts, and perhaps more broadly.
>>
>> I would in particular love to get feedback from a Lisp crowd on the
>> language design, syntax, etc. We tried to give it an updated feel,
>> but still be recognizably Prolog, and just a little Lispy. Lisp
>> folks tend to have pretty high standards and strong opinions on
>> all kinds of languages, so it'd be great to hear what people think.
>>
>> > I'd be willing to give a lightning talk about cl-protobufs.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> > We can use Zoom instead of hangouts...
>>
>> +1 from me on reliability and ease of use, though I totally understand
>> issues people may have with it. Jitsi's probably fine, though I have
>> not ever used it.
>>
>>         -- Alex
>>
>>
>>
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