[chicago-lisp] Chicago Lisp user group

[Andrew K. Wolven]

Northwest suburbs is good for me.  Downtown is fine too.  Evenings are good.

AKW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Mastenbrook" <bmastenbrook at comcast.net>
To: <chicago-lisp at common-lisp.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:03 PM
Subject: [chicago-lisp] Chicago Lisp user group


> Hello all,
> 
> Now that you've probably all forgotten about this list, it's probably a 
> good time to start setting up a meeting. The things we should probably 
> discuss are time/date, venue, and content / structure.
> 
> My suggestions are:
> 
> Time/Date: either a weeknight or weekend afternoon; any day of the week 
> is generally OK, but some specific dates might not work (The next 
> couple of weekends will be bad for me).
> Location: Somewhere out towards the northwest suburbs. There is a good 
> chance that I can get Roosevelt University in Schaumburg to provide a 
> room for the meeting.
> Content / structure: several other Lisp user groups organize their 
> meetings as presentations by a few people about a topic of interest. I 
> can do presentations on any number of topics (web serving with araneida 
> is a general topic that I could do any number of sub-presentations in). 
> I'm sure that other people can do interesting presentations too 
> (*cough* Paul :-)
> 
> My general thought is that we should set a general bound on topics as 
> topics relating to Lisp (Common Lisp, Scheme, ISLISP, other 
> recognizable lisps) and try to avoid presentations mostly relating to 
> other languages. However, I don't think that we should limit ourselves 
> to any one dialect of lisp - if we get *really* popular, there's always 
> the possibility of SIGs :-)
> 
> Thoughts?
> --
> Brian Mastenbrook
> bmastenbrook at comcast.net
> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/
> 
> 
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