From jquigley at jquigley.com Sat Nov 25 04:53:53 2006 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:53:53 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p Message-ID: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> Hey Folks: I'm interested in taking charge of this group and giving it some direction. I've been subscribed to this list for a few months, and haven't seen any activity. I'm really interested in hanging out with some Lisp hackers, and I think it's a shame that there's no activity here. In this vein, I'm inviting everyone interested to make it out next Saturday, 2006-12-02 @ 3p, to a pilot meeting at the Chicago Institute of Design. I operate the Chicago LUG, and have access to a really beautiful meeting space (4 big conference rooms, 20 white boards, projector, the works). I'd like to run The Chicago LUG meeting concurrently; I'll be making a presentation (to both the Lisp and LUG groups) on setting up a good Lisp development environment (Slime, etc.) as an introduction for newer developers. The Chicago LUG has a number of functional developers (Erlang, Haskell and Lisp predominantly), so I'm trying to bootstrap the Lisp group by harnessing interest within the LUG. Thoughts? Suggestions? I'd love to hear them. Please try to make it out, and RSVP if you're able to attend. If enough people show interest, we can have a forum after the presentation to plan things out. I'm willing to invest my time in starting/operating a web site, etc., but I want to make sure I'm not alone in wanting to make something of this group. Regards, John Quigley http://www.chicagolug.org/~jquigley/ From jquigley at jquigley.com Sat Nov 25 06:27:57 2006 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:27:57 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: <4567D417.4090307@speakeasy.net> References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> <4567D417.4090307@speakeasy.net> Message-ID: <4567E26D.7050300@jquigley.com> Forwarding Peter's question on to the list, in the hopes that this helps others: Peter Horst wrote: > What's the Chicago Institute of Design? IoD is a school located in what's better known as the AFLAC building, one block north of the Chicago river: http://tinyurl.com/mdqb3 (Google map) As I said, it's a nice facility: http://www.chicagolug.org/Image:LUG060415_1381.JPG The school itself (I'm not affiliated with it, aside from knowing several teachers and workers there): http://www.id.iit.edu/ - John Quigley From jquigley at jquigley.com Sat Nov 25 06:56:08 2006 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:56:08 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> Message-ID: <4567E908.2080801@jquigley.com> Forwarding Michael's response on to the list, in the hopes that this helps others. I'm discovering an annoying aspect of this list: when you click on "Reply" or "Reply all" to any email sent to you via the list, you respond directly to the original sender. I'm personally used to replies going back to the list, and I suspect that this confusing others as well, so be wary of this when making responses. More to the point: Michael Bobak wrote: > I'm very glad to see any activity here. I'd love to make it to any meeting that I can. But won't be in town then. Great, thanks much for the show of interest, and so soon =) > If it becomes regular, I'll be around for part of Dec then beyond, so should be able to make most of the rest of the meetings; and could try to help out. I'll be certain to take notes on 12-02, and I'll make those public for those unable to attend. I'm definitely going to push for a regular meeting schedule, since this really helps in maintaining a structured group. Looking forward to meeting you! - John Quigley From vinay.doma at gmail.com Sun Nov 26 04:49:13 2006 From: vinay.doma at gmail.com (Vinay Doma) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:49:13 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> Message-ID: I'd love to attend. Count me in. Thanks for taking the initiative to get things started. Vinay On 11/24/06, John Quigley wrote: > > Hey Folks: > > I'm interested in taking charge of this group and giving it some > direction. I've been subscribed to this list for a few months, and > haven't seen any activity. I'm really interested in hanging out with > some Lisp hackers, and I think it's a shame that there's no activity here. > > In this vein, I'm inviting everyone interested to make it out next > Saturday, 2006-12-02 @ 3p, to a pilot meeting at the Chicago Institute > of Design. I operate the Chicago LUG, and have access to a really > beautiful meeting space (4 big conference rooms, 20 white boards, > projector, the works). > > I'd like to run The Chicago LUG meeting concurrently; I'll be making a > presentation (to both the Lisp and LUG groups) on setting up a good Lisp > development environment (Slime, etc.) as an introduction for newer > developers. The Chicago LUG has a number of functional developers > (Erlang, Haskell and Lisp predominantly), so I'm trying to bootstrap the > Lisp group by harnessing interest within the LUG. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? I'd love to hear them. Please try to make it > out, and RSVP if you're able to attend. If enough people show interest, > we can have a forum after the presentation to plan things out. I'm > willing to invest my time in starting/operating a web site, etc., but I > want to make sure I'm not alone in wanting to make something of this > group. > > Regards, > John Quigley > http://www.chicagolug.org/~jquigley/ > _______________________________________________ > chicago-lisp site list > chicago-lisp at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dkixk at earthlink.net Mon Nov 27 03:38:03 2006 From: dkixk at earthlink.net (Damien Kick) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:38:03 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> Message-ID: <17F096D7-7575-4C86-BDFA-4E49BA18BEF4@earthlink.net> On Nov 24, 2006, at 22:53, John Quigley wrote: > Thoughts? Suggestions? I'd love to hear them. Please try to make > it out, and RSVP if you're able to attend. If enough people show > interest, we can have a forum after the presentation to plan things > out. I'm willing to invest my time in starting/operating a web > site, etc., but I want to make sure I'm not alone in wanting to > make something of this group. I would also be interested in attending. From jforeman at hark.org Mon Nov 27 04:35:56 2006 From: jforeman at hark.org (Jason Foreman) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:35:56 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> Message-ID: <47E45070-EFFE-48D4-AAFC-A8663F6DFDA2@hark.org> On Nov 24, 2006, at 10:53 PM, John Quigley wrote: > Hey Folks: > > ... > Thoughts? Suggestions? I'd love to hear them. Please try to make > it out, and RSVP if you're able to attend. If enough people show > interest, we can have a forum after the presentation to plan things > out. I'm willing to invest my time in starting/operating a web > site, etc., but I want to make sure I'm not alone in wanting to > make something of this group. > I am interested, but I most likely cannot make it this Saturday. But if things work out and future meetings are held, I would try to attend. Jason Foreman -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2417 bytes Desc: not available URL: From mleiseca at gmail.com Tue Nov 28 13:52:55 2006 From: mleiseca at gmail.com (Michael Leiseca) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:52:55 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: <47E45070-EFFE-48D4-AAFC-A8663F6DFDA2@hark.org> References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> <47E45070-EFFE-48D4-AAFC-A8663F6DFDA2@hark.org> Message-ID: <41368d640611280552i7e39f224yac282f42c5850b7d@mail.gmail.com> Sounds interesting! I will be there --michael On 11/26/06, Jason Foreman wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2006, at 10:53 PM, John Quigley wrote: > > > Hey Folks: > > > > ... > > > Thoughts? Suggestions? I'd love to hear them. Please try to make > > it out, and RSVP if you're able to attend. If enough people show > > interest, we can have a forum after the presentation to plan things > > out. I'm willing to invest my time in starting/operating a web > > site, etc., but I want to make sure I'm not alone in wanting to > > make something of this group. > > From ssrat at mailbag.com Tue Nov 28 18:20:26 2006 From: ssrat at mailbag.com (David Douthitt) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:20:26 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> Message-ID: <456C7DEA.9080406@mailbag.com> John Quigley wrote: > In this vein, I'm inviting everyone interested to make it out next > Saturday, 2006-12-02 @ 3p, to a pilot meeting at the Chicago > Institute of Design. I operate the Chicago LUG, and have access to > a really beautiful meeting space (4 big conference rooms, 20 white > boards, projector, the works). The Chicago LUG would be the Chicago LISP User's Group, yes? ;-) > I'd like to run The Chicago LUG meeting concurrently; I'll be > making a presentation (to both the Lisp and LUG groups) on setting > up a good Lisp development environment (Slime, etc.) as an > introduction for newer developers. The Chicago LUG has a number of > functional developers (Erlang, Haskell and Lisp predominantly), so > I'm trying to bootstrap the Lisp group by harnessing interest > within the LUG. Sounds excellent. I'd like to be there - and I'll try - but I need directions. Not "Take the Von Ryan expressway to the Art Institute" but directions for dummies ;-) Depending on location, I'd either come in I90 or I94. Coming in on 94 is the route I know best... And is there parking? How much? From ssrat at mailbag.com Tue Nov 28 18:23:24 2006 From: ssrat at mailbag.com (David Douthitt) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:23:24 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Newsgroup Traffic Message-ID: <456C7E9C.7040209@mailbag.com> An interesting aside: I subscribe to several language Usenet newsgroups. LISP is one of the most active groups - consider (in my current reading): awk: 610 eiffel: 27 forth: 1834 perl: 12 ruby: 9178 postscript: 294 java: 96 smalltalk: 327 tcl: 2917 lisp: 3370 Only comp.lang.ruby is more active (in my list). So where is everybody? :-O PS: No, I'm not fluent in all those ;-) And no, I'm not subscribed to comp.lang.c or similar. From dsears at riverglassinc.com Tue Nov 28 18:35:30 2006 From: dsears at riverglassinc.com (Duane Searsmith) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:35:30 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Newsgroup Traffic In-Reply-To: <456C7E9C.7040209@mailbag.com> References: <456C7E9C.7040209@mailbag.com> Message-ID: <456C8172.4040308@riverglassinc.com> I am an active Lisp enthusiast. But, alas, I cannot make it up to Chicago for meetings unless I can plan a month or more in advance. The recent activity in the group though is encouraging and I send my moral support from afar. -- Duane David Douthitt wrote: > An interesting aside: I subscribe to several language Usenet > newsgroups. LISP is one of the most active groups - consider (in my > current reading): > > awk: 610 > eiffel: 27 > forth: 1834 > perl: 12 > ruby: 9178 > postscript: 294 > java: 96 > smalltalk: 327 > tcl: 2917 > > lisp: 3370 > > Only comp.lang.ruby is more active (in my list). So where is > everybody? :-O > > PS: No, I'm not fluent in all those ;-) And no, I'm not subscribed to > comp.lang.c or similar. > > _______________________________________________ > chicago-lisp site list > chicago-lisp at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp > > From jquigley at jquigley.com Tue Nov 28 19:04:22 2006 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:04:22 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: <456C7DEA.9080406@mailbag.com> References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> <456C7DEA.9080406@mailbag.com> Message-ID: <456C8836.3050307@jquigley.com> David Douthitt wrote: > The Chicago LUG would be the Chicago LISP User's Group, yes? ;-) Ahhh, synchronicity in action! > Sounds excellent. I'd like to be there - and I'll try - but I need > directions. Not "Take the Von Ryan expressway to the Art Institute" but > directions for dummies ;-) Depending on location, I'd either come in > I90 or I94. Coming in on 94 is the route I know best... Excuse me for not being more specific, here's the details: * Google map: http://tinyurl.com/mdqb3 * Description: 350 N LaSalle Street Chicago, Illinois 60610-4726 (reception on 6th floor) The Institute of Design is located at 350 North LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago, on the southwest corner of LaSalle and Kinzie streets, just north of the Chicago River, between the Merchandise Mart and the old "Traffic Court" building. If you're coming in off the Dan Ryan, you'll probably want to take the Ohio St. exit, and travel north-bound on LaSalle. As for the IoD itself. The main entrance is on the north-east corner of the building (aka, the SW corner of the Kinzie St. and LaSalle intersection). There will be a door guard at the entrance, feel free to knock at the door (if you're early, it may be locked) or ask him questions. Tell him you're with the Chicago Lisp Group and are meeting on the 6th floor; he's very friendly and will guide you. I'll do my best to arrive rather early (around 2:30p), so that nobody is left confused or without company. > And is there parking? How much? Yes, plenty of free parking, often on Kinzie St, just WEST of LaSalle. The IoD has a parking garage as well, on Kinzie St, just EAST of LaSalle, that's $6 per day for valid visitors (you'll be a valid visitor). If there's any confusion, now or at the time of the meeting, I want you to call me on my cell at 312.351.3671. On another note: we invite you to BYOB or food, as suits your taste. While alcohol is expressly permitted, we're obviously open to anyone of any age. Furthermore, the Chicago LUG (and I would love to make this a tradition within the Lisp group, as well), always goes out for food and drinks afterwards (formerly to Goose Island, but we're thinking of trying a new place this go-around). Naturally, we extend the invitation to any of you to join us. Thanks for the response guys, I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and making something of this group. - John Quigley From jquigley at jquigley.com Wed Nov 29 19:41:26 2006 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:41:26 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Let's organize: meeting 2006-12-02 @ 3p In-Reply-To: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> References: <4567CC61.70101@jquigley.com> Message-ID: <456DE266.9080400@jquigley.com> Here's the meeting announcement that's propagating, just FYI: ---------- SNIP ------------ Folks: The Chicago G/LUG and Lisp communities are having a joint meeting this coming Saturday, December 02, 2006 @ 3p, right in downtown Chicago at the Institute of Design. Meeting info: http://www.chicagolug.org/Meetings Meeting agenda: http://www.chicagolug.org/Agenda_2006-12-02 The two groups will overlap with a presentation on SLIME, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs. The purpose of this presentation will be to instruct new Lispers in creating a remarkably powerful and beautiful development environment using entirely free software. This is the first meeting of Chicago Lisp, and we invite everyone interested to come and help us develop ideas as to how to run the group. After the meeting, join us for food and drinks as we geek it up over brews. Questions and comments can be directed to lug at chicagolug.org, or join us on IRC at #chiglug at irc.oftc.net or lisp at irc.oftc.net. Regards, John Quigley