1st Official Meeting

[lancec...@gmail.com]

Discussed today was a serious call for a first meeting. The end of the
month seems like the best option to avoid clashing with the other
local users groups. The first meeting will be intros and pooling
together ideas for a project (open source or otherwise) in Erlang. Is
everyone free on Monday Oct 29?

[Eric I.]

I'd be available, although I probably won't have the opportunity to
dig into the language by then.

Eric

On Oct 11, 5:35 pm, "lancecarl...@gmail.com" <lancecarl...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Mark Ramm]

I may be free, but I too would be a total erlang novice. :)

--Mark

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Mark Ramm-Christensen
email: mark at compoundthinking dot com
blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog

[lancec...@gmail.com]

All of us are erlang novices at this point so don't feel like not coming because of it. Part of the user group is to get is all started and on our way to programming in erlang and the project was a testing bed for that learning experience. Also a question I forgot to ask was about venue and time. Any preferences on the 29th?
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From: "Mark Ramm" <mark.mch...@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:44:35
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Subject: Re: 1st Official Meeting

[Patrick Hurley]

I am also available on the 29th, I the Ruby MI group is doing a poker
hand evaluator for our "challenge", I have been doing it in erlang. I
think I am slowly starting to grok the functional language thing and
really want to spend sometime comparing various solutions to simple
problems as a group.

As for a location, if we can get a room on campus I am all for that --
I am also more than willing to open up my home (in Canton) as a third
choice we could go to a bar/restaurant, but I would prefer a place
with its own parking :-)

Time 7:00pm, sounds good.

pth

[Eric I.]

7pm on the 29th sounds good to me.

As for venue, I think Winston knows of someone at UofM who can get a
room for us. Maybe Mark knows someone at WCC who can. And if not
Mark, perhaps Ron does, due to his work w/ the AAJUG.

Eric

[Lance Carlson]

I really like WCC's facilities. It's also right next to the highway
and features tons of parking. If we can get a spot there, I'm all for
it!

[Charles Lowell]

Pat,

What have you been using IDE-wise for coding in erlang. I've tried the textmate bundle, which is fairly primitive and wondering if there is anything better out there.

cheers,

Charles Lowell

cow...@thefrontside.net

The Frontside Software

http://thefrontside.net

[Patrick Hurley]

So far a combination of erlang on my mac and vim when on Linux. My
biggest gripe has been in the compile/run/test cycle. I am working on
a little continuous testing utility -- right now just for my mac using
growl and etest, but I think it should port over to Linux with a
different notification utility without too much trouble.

I agree that textmate seems pretty rough (the scope selectors are
broke in a few different places), vim seems a little better, my
reading makes me think that emacs is the platform of choice, but I
already have two editors in my life and I am not sure I am ready to
break down and try and teach my 40 years old fingers another key
binding.

pth

[Lance Carlson]

I talked to Chris and he mentioned that Arbor Networks might host our
meetings. They hosted the Python User Groups so they have done this
before. Would everyone be receptive to that? If so, I think WCC and
this option seem the best.

[Eric I.]

I'm fine with both Arbor Networks and WCC. I'm not familiar with the
Arbor Networks space, but if it's good enough for the Pythonistas, I'm
sure it'll be OK for the Erlangers.

Eric