I’m proud to report that the Chicago Lisp group is experiencing monthly membership growth of over 50%! If my math is correct, by this time next year we should have close to 2500 members. That should complicate venue planning :).<\/p>\n
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Here are our attendees:<\/p>\n
Peter Christensen
\nJohn Quigley
\nCraig Luddington
\nMatt Bone
\nBrendan Baldwin
\nAndrew Wolven
\nBruce Burdick
\nChad Slaughter
\nKurt Stephens
\nSteve Githens
\nAlex Hemard<\/p>\n
ITEMS OF BUSINESS<\/strong>: <\/strong><\/p>\n Name<\/strong> – None of the name ideas got much support, so we’re sticking with Chicago Lisp until someone comes up with something awesomer. <\/strong><\/p>\n Project<\/strong> – No one had any ideas for or time to work on a project as a group so that’s also waiting for an awesomer idea.<\/p>\n Server<\/strong> – John and Craig both have servers where they can host things but not allow remote access to. John has a basic homepage at http:\/\/www.chicaglisp.org<\/a> and has a mailing list<\/a> setup. There might be a wiki in the future. Meeting announcements and recaps will continue to be on Peter’s Chicago Lisp page<\/a> and then cross posted to the two mailing lists and the chicagolisp.org site.<\/p>\n Next Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n WHEN<\/strong>: Friday, May 16th at 7pm. <\/strong><\/p>\n WHERE<\/strong>: CashNetUSA offices. 200 W. Jackson Blvd, 14th floor, Chicago. Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n WHAT<\/strong>: Lightning talks. The following people have signed up, more welcome (email Peter<\/a> if interested or add a comment at Coordinatr<\/a>)<\/p>\n Intro to Lisp Workshop<\/strong>: We did some pre-planning and delegation. See details here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n Presentation on Combined Object-Lambda Architectures (COLAs)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The inagural presentation of our group was about the work done by the Viewpoints Research Institure (VPRI)<\/a>. The most recognizable name associated with this is Alan Kay, Mr. Invent the Future himself. John Quigley made an excellent slide deck<\/a> (pdf) where he reviewed the paper “Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke” <\/a>(pdf) by Ian Piumarta and put into slightly more comprensible language.<\/p>\n This paper is for the Fundamental New Computer Technologies<\/a> project at VPRI. The aim of the project is to create a complete computing system in 20,000 lines of code. This system would be everything from the hardware to the UI and include both design and implementation. Having such a compact system would be a useful exploration and learning tool, so every part of it can be inspected and manipulated. They’re currently 18 months into a 5 year project but they already have made intriguing progress.<\/p>\n John’s presentation was about the architecture of the self bootstrapping system. I can’t claim that I understood it all, or even most of it. I was able to keep up mostly because I had come across VPRI’s work on Jeff Moser’s blog earlier in the week so I was familiar with the overview. What I did sort of grasp boggled my mind and definintely but VPRI on my technical radar, if for no other reason than as a technical challenge to aspire to.<\/p>\n If you can understand everything in Piumarta’s paper (or even in John’s summary deck), you’re a whiz. If not, don’t feel bad. I would recommend reading the NSF proposal<\/a> (pdf) and the first year progress report<\/a> (pdf). They’re in more accessible, less technically deep language and they have pretty pictures.<\/p>\n Thanks John for setting the bar high right out of the gate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m proud to report that the Chicago Lisp group is experiencing monthly membership growth of over 50%! If my math is correct, by this time next year we should have close to 2500 members. 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