[chicago-lisp] Chicago Lisp user group

[Paul F. Dietz]

Brian and I are in the NW suburbs.  Where's everyone else?

	Paul


Andrew K. Wolven wrote:
> 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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