[chicago-lisp] Chicago Lisp user group

[Ben]

myself and andrew are in hyde park.  we can definitely get classroom
space at the U of C.

B

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Paul F. Dietz wrote:

> 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/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> chicago-lisp site list
>>> chicago-lisp at common-lisp.net
>>> http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> chicago-lisp site list
>> chicago-lisp at common-lisp.net
>> http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp
>> 
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> chicago-lisp site list
> chicago-lisp at common-lisp.net
> http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp
>