Get-together this week?

[Zach Beane]

Alex Plotnick <shrike at netaxs.com> writes:

> At or around Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:02:16 -0400, Zach Beane said:
>
>> I'm in town this week, is there any interest in getting together for an
>> informal dinner on, say, Wednesday night?
>
> I can't speak for others, but I don't think I can make it tomorrow (Wed.).
> But I have been arranging for a talk, which looks like it's going to be
> next week (probably Thursday).
>
> It's been suggested that we should perhaps just meet once a month on a
> set day (the nth foo-day of the month), regardless of whether a formal
> talk has been arranged. If there's no talk, then we could do tutorials,
> lightning talks, informal sharing of recent cool hacks, or just dinner.
> We haven't used this model in the past, but the idea has been growing
> on me. What do other people think?

I like it. Other groups do this (LispNYC and Lisp Toronto), it might be
good to get info from them about how it's been working out.

Zach