Summary of lispvan May 2006 meeting: Surviving Lisp
Thursday, June 1, 2006
I gave a presentation last night on RSI and Emacs usage. We had a relatively low turnout (we've been getting used to about 14-17 people showing up at most meetings and we only had 11 at this meeting); but, we still had a reasonable number of attendees. Since university has finished for the summer, we had the Think! Cafe pretty much to ourselves. There were 6 people who had attended a previous lispvan meeting (Dean Giberson, Howard Yeh, Norman Jaffe, Alfonso Urroz-Aguirre, Drew Crampsie and me) as well as 5 new attendees:
- Bob Woodham: A CS professor at UBC, Bob had a lot of interesting stories to tell about his experiences with Lisp Machines and early versions of Lisp.
- David Sky: David uses a variant of XLISP to write plugins for Nyquist (a sound synthesis and composition language) in Audacity (an audio editor/recorder).
- Daniel Pezely: Came up from Seattle and is interested in forming a Lisp User Group in Seattle.
- Roger V.: Up in Vancouver on business, has a background with Apple/Oracle, Roger stopped in to say hello and pass on a hello from Jans Aasman of Franz.
- Unknown: Another guy attended the latter part of the meeting, but left before I had an opportunity to chat with him. Maybe he'll come again and I'll get a chance to say g'day.
In other lispvan news, Howard Yeh (a lispvan member!) was approved funding for his Google Summer of Code proposal: "Wispy Lisp := A Lispy Web-framework". His proposal was one of 3 LispNYC-mentored Lisp proposals to receive funding by Google. Way-ta-go Howard!
