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FLiB Meeting: Tuesday 2009-11-24 (Call for Speakers...)

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Aleix Conchillo Flaqué

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Nov 9, 2009, 12:24:30 PM11/9/09
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Hi FLiBers,

finally, it seems we have a winning day for November's meeting:
Tuesday 24th.

To summarise a bit the talks/demos/... for this meeting (from the
mailing list posts):

- Andy Wingo: g-speak demo? GNU Hackers Meeting report? Guiles
improvements (wingolog.org related)?
- Andy Bagdanov: Haskell talk?
- Colin Fleming: Why EMACS is a hopelessly inadequate editing
environment in this day and age?
- Jordi Delgado: What about a brief introduction to call-cc? ;-)
- Myself: Introduction to PLT Slideshow? PLAI chapters 9 to 11?
- Beer drinking.
- Anyone else?

I just added a question mark because we can all change our minds
(except for the beer), though it would be great to know the talks in
advance, basically because of a matter of time.

Cheers,

Aleix

jdelgado

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Nov 9, 2009, 2:32:37 PM11/9/09
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Hi

Glad to see we have a new meeting in sight...

> - Andy Wingo: g-speak demo? GNU Hackers Meeting report? Guiles  
> improvements (wingolog.org related)?
> - Andy Bagdanov: Haskell talk?
> - Colin Fleming: Why EMACS is a hopelessly inadequate editing  
> environment in this day and age?

Ok (Colin, are you sure you want to give *this* talk in front of
jao? :-))

> - Jordi Delgado: What about a brief introduction to call-cc? ;-)

Yes. It will be nice to put my family, my job and my health aside and
become a call/cc junkie again...(ask fxn about my talk on
continuations
in a Perl Mongers meeting, like five years ago :-))

> - Myself: Introduction to PLT Slideshow? PLAI chapters 9 to 11?

Ok again

> - Beer drinking.

Fantastic! (it's talking the Homer in me :-))

Bests,

Jordi

Andy Wingo

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Nov 9, 2009, 4:31:30 PM11/9/09
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Hello!

On Mon 09 Nov 2009 18:24, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <aconc...@gmail.com> writes:

> finally, it seems we have a winning day for November's meeting: Tuesday
> 24th.

Sounds great to me. (Jeez, it's the end of the year already.)

I think we agreed at our beer event that spanish and catalan are fine
languages for flibug activities. The question of how exactly to
encourage participation of people that perhaps aren't comfortable in
english remains open, AFAIR. Thoughts most welcome in that regard!

Andy
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http://wingolog.org/

Aleix Conchillo Flaqué

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Nov 9, 2009, 5:41:34 PM11/9/09
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On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Andy Wingo wrote:
>
> I think we agreed at our beer event that spanish and catalan are fine
> languages for flibug activities. The question of how exactly to
> encourage participation of people that perhaps aren't comfortable in
> english remains open, AFAIR. Thoughts most welcome in that regard!
>


With activities I guess you mean Cervetecas? And participation... talks?

For talks, an initial approach (I think I do not discover anything
here) would be to talk in spanish (catalan would be too much, I think)
and the slides in english. It would be like an spanish film with
english subtitles. :-)

Aleix

Colin Fleming

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Nov 10, 2009, 2:56:04 AM11/10/09
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
<aconc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be like an spanish film with english subtitles.

Heh, fantastic :-)

I'm fine with Spanish, Catalan would be difficult tending towards
impossible - but I can always just read the subtitles.

Cheers,
Colin

Colin Fleming

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Nov 10, 2009, 3:03:01 AM11/10/09
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:32 PM, jdelgado <jdelga...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> - Colin Fleming: Why EMACS is a hopelessly inadequate editing
>> environment in this day and age?
>
> Ok (Colin, are you sure you want to give *this* talk in front of jao? :-))

Hehe, it's all in good fun... I doubt I can get it ready for this
meeting though, work is currently, um, "exciting".

Weren't we promised an Oblong demo? I'm still dying to see that...

Cheers,
Colin

Colin Fleming

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Nov 13, 2009, 11:37:22 AM11/13/09
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Hi all,

Actually, things are quieter than expected - I'll give the talk a
shot, but I might just have to ad-lib a bit more than I'd like. Andy,
is there a projector I can hook a laptop up to? Live demos are always
more exciting.

Don't forget the torches! I'll bring the kindling.

Cheers,
Colin

Aleix Conchillo Flaqué

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Nov 13, 2009, 12:26:25 PM11/13/09
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On Nov 13, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Colin Fleming wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Actually, things are quieter than expected - I'll give the talk a
> shot, but I might just have to ad-lib a bit more than I'd like. Andy,
> is there a projector I can hook a laptop up to? Live demos are always
> more exciting.
>

Great! I have added the user "ColinFleming" (you have to create it
with this name) to the flibug wiki with write permissions. Go ahead
and update your talk in the next meeting's date.

Cheers,

Aleix

Andy Wingo

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Nov 14, 2009, 6:25:13 AM11/14/09
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On Fri 13 Nov 2009 17:37, Colin Fleming <co...@colinfleming.net> writes:

> Actually, things are quieter than expected - I'll give the talk a
> shot, but I might just have to ad-lib a bit more than I'd like. Andy,
> is there a projector I can hook a laptop up to? Live demos are always
> more exciting.

Yes!

> Don't forget the torches! I'll bring the kindling.

Excellent.

A
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