Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for December - Google SoC
Monday, December 11, 2006
For our December
lispvan meeting, Howard Yeh will be recounting his experiences as
a Lisp coder for last summer's
Google Summer of Code. Howard submitted his application through
LispNYC (which was coordinating all of the 2006 Google SoC
Lisp-related projects). His project was
Wispy Lisp, a web framework for creating dynamic web applications
in Lisp. Howard will recount his experiences with Lisp, Google SoC,
Life, the Universe, and all that. ;-)
Here's the "official" meeting notice:
Topic: Strange Love, or: How I Learned to Love Lisp, and Started
Worrying
Presenter: Howard Yeh
Date: Thursday, December 21, 2006
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue:
Think!, 4512 West 10th Ave., Vancouver (see
map)
Summary:
- Frontpiece
- Why Lisp
- Why I am not stupid enough not to use lisp
- Journey to Lambda Knighthood
- How to become enlightened, but still unemployed
- Picking Google's Pocket
- The Summer of Code experience
- Why Lisp is Dead (but no deader than usual)
- Why I am not smart enough to use lisp
- One Can Dream
- How somebody else can do the hardwork for me
This will be the last meeting of 2006. Take a break from the shopping and end-of-year parties to come in, have a beer, and talk lisp for an evening. See you at the meeting!
