From dherring at tentpost.com  Thu Feb 23 05:00:46 2012
From: dherring at tentpost.com (Daniel Herring)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [boston-lisp] Meeting with Juanjo (of ECL fame)?
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1202222342420.19115@strider2.example.org>

Hi all,

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll, aka Juanjo in ECL land, will be here in Boston 
next week.  His primary purpose is to attend the APS March Meeting; but he 
has some free time planned and seems agreeable to meeting with us...

I'm thinking an evening at a favorite bar/restaurant might be good.  If 
somebody has a good topic that doesn't require much preparation, he might 
be willing to give a presentation in a more formal setting (such as a room 
at MIT or Northeastern).

Would anybody else like to meet with him?

Other thoughts, including places to meet?  (the APS event is at the 
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street)

Please reply on-list or directly to my email.

Thanks,
Daniel



From xach at xach.com  Fri Feb 24 13:11:52 2012
From: xach at xach.com (Zach Beane)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:11:52 -0500
Subject: [boston-lisp] Meeting with Juanjo (of ECL fame)?
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1202222342420.19115@strider2.example.org>
	(Daniel Herring's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:46 -0500 (EST)")
References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1202222342420.19115@strider2.example.org>
Message-ID: <87booo74vb.fsf@aliengleams.portland.xach.com>

Daniel Herring <dherring at tentpost.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll, aka Juanjo in ECL land, will be here in
> Boston next week.  His primary purpose is to attend the APS March
> Meeting; but he has some free time planned and seems agreeable to
> meeting with us...
>
> I'm thinking an evening at a favorite bar/restaurant might be good.
> If somebody has a good topic that doesn't require much preparation, he
> might be willing to give a presentation in a more formal setting (such
> as a room at MIT or Northeastern).
>
> Would anybody else like to meet with him?
>
> Other thoughts, including places to meet?  (the APS event is at the
> Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street)
>
> Please reply on-list or directly to my email.

I'd like to get together with other Lispers if possible. I don't mind if
it's a presentation, dinner, or whatever else. I'm too far away to
suggest a venue or restaurant, though.

Zach



From plotnick at cs.brandeis.edu  Fri Feb 24 14:48:12 2012
From: plotnick at cs.brandeis.edu (Alex Plotnick)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:48:12 -0500
Subject: [boston-lisp] Meeting with Juanjo (of ECL fame)?
In-Reply-To: <87booo74vb.fsf@aliengleams.portland.xach.com>
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	<87booo74vb.fsf@aliengleams.portland.xach.com>
Message-ID: <201202241448.q1OEmCOi005015@sol.localdomain>

At or around Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:11:52 EST, Zach Beane said:

> I'd like to get together with other Lispers if possible.

Likewise. It's been too long.

I also have no particular preference as to food, drink, venue,
presentations, or lack thereof. I'm sure I could arrange to host at
Brandeis, although I sort of doubt that people want to shlep out to
Waltham.

	-- Alex



From dherring at tentpost.com  Tue Feb 28 03:20:19 2012
From: dherring at tentpost.com (Daniel Herring)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:20:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [boston-lisp] Boston Lisp March Meeting
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1202272156030.29843@strider2.example.org>

Hi all,

Come join us for an informal night of lisp, food, and other refreshments.

We'll be meeting Thursday, March 1, at 6:30pm in the CBC.

Cambridge Brewing Co.
http://www.cambrew.com/
1 Kendall Square, Bldg 100
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-494-1994

If you plan to come, please email me by Wednesday afternoon.
(So I can give the CBC a head count.)

In addition to the local crowd, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll (of ECL fame) came 
all the way from Madrid just to meet with us.  ;)

Zach Beane says he'll be in town from 5pm; so he might be interested in 
meeting with people before dinner.

See you soon,
Daniel



From neil at neilvandyke.org  Tue Feb 28 23:41:12 2012
From: neil at neilvandyke.org (Neil Van Dyke)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:41:12 -0500
Subject: [boston-lisp] merge boston-lisp-announce list into boston-lisp list?
Message-ID: <4F4D6618.5070707@neilvandyke.org>

Please let me know if you have any comments on the goodness of merging 
the "boston-lisp-announce at neilvandyke.org" list that I maintain into 
"boston-lisp at common-lisp.net" list (or perhaps into a 
"boston-lisp-announce at common-lisp.net" list).

You may wish to email me privately.  Any replies will *not* go through 
to the moderated "boston-lisp-announce" list, anyway.

More info follows...

"boston-lisp-announce" (originally called something else, a bad pun) was 
intended to reach the largest number of Boston-area Lisp 
(CL/Scheme/etc.) users, for announcements of things like meetings of 
Boston-area Lispers, highly relevant talks in the Boston area, and 
Boston-area job postings involving Lisp.

When I created the list, I had a suspicion that many of the Lispers we 
most wanted to attract were highly averse to being on email discussion 
lists, and to spam, so I promised that "boston-lisp-announce" would be 
very-low-traffic and heavily moderated.  I also adopted a policy of no 
member listing and no message archives, for those people who want to 
keep a low profile for themself or their startup company, or who just 
think that might help keep their address away from spammers and headhunters.

When Boston Lisp Meeting started up, I think that "boston-lisp-announce" 
helped jumpstart participation in that, by reaching a fairly up-to-date 
and focused list of relevant people.  (Around that time, 
"boston-lisp at common-lisp.net", or wherever it was hosted at the time, 
was effectively dead, as far as I recall.)

Given that Boston Lisp Meeting announcements have seemed to constitute 
most of the traffic on "boston-lisp-announce" in recent years, and that 
"boston-lisp" seems to be the de facto list for post-Fare Boston Lisp 
Meeting, as well as me realizing that a primo list of Lispers exists 
nowhere other than my little personal Web site hosting account (the 
continued existence of which is contingent on me not getting hit by an 
MBTA bus)... I'm leaning towards talking with the "@common-lisp.net" 
people about merging "boston-lisp-announce" into their stuff.

I'm asking here on "boston-lisp-announce" first and foremost to see 
whether there are any objections to merging at this time.  I did make 
some guarantees as to how the list would behave, and I will honor those 
guarantees unless there are no objections.

Or perhaps people would conditionally accept the idea of moving the 
list, so long as it becomes "boston-lisp-announce at common-lisp.net" with 
the same guarantees as "boston-lisp-announce at neilvandyke.org".  (I 
suggest speaking only for your own interest here, not speculating on 
others', since everyone affected should receive this same message and 
can speak for themselves.)

I'm CC-ing "boston-lisp" in case anyone there has ideas on how to best 
handle a currently-hypothetical merging of lists.

All this said, if anyone would like me to continue to host and moderate 
"boston-lisp-announce at neilvandyke.org", with the same guarantees as 
always, I am happy to do so.  Modulo any unfortunate MBTA incidents.

Thanks,
Neil V.

-- 
http://www.neilvandyke.org/