Meeting.

[Cooper Francis]

I'm trying to get a small group together of individuals interested in
working through Chris Okasaki's "Purely Functional Data Structures"
together. The idea would be to read sections of the book
independently with online discussion via this forum when necessary,
but to also meet fairly regularly (once a week? every other week?) to
go over exercises, discuss chapter contents in depth, and make plans
for how much to read the next book. I think we can probably do a
chapter a week for at least the first couple chapters, but a slower
pace eventually or always might make more sense.

I plan to work through this book in Haskell as an excuse to learn the
language, but I would like to keep this relatively language agnostic.
Being able to compare exercise solutions across languages would be a
great perk to doing this as a group.

Anyways, spread the word and let me know what language you plan to
use, where you'd like to meet, and when would be a good time for a
first meeting. I'd prefer to meet somewhere that serves beer, but if
younger folks would like to join the group I'm definitely willing to
be flexible.

[Travis Brooks]

Neat, the book has just been gathering dust on the table next to my
bed for about 9 months so i could use encouragement reading it.

As for voting where a meetup spot could be, I'd be most likely to show
up if it was downtown-ish. If its a small group (8 or less) just
about any bar/pub will do as long as its not too noisy, the location
could rotate too. I'm personally a bit partial to Bailey's Taproom
(quiet music, no TVs) but their brew can be a bit strong for the
uninitiated.

-travis

[contextfree]

I bought this book some time ago, but didn't have the math/
algorithmics background to fully understand it, at least at the time.
I suspect I still don't but I'm up for the meetings. Haskell works
for me.

Max Strini

[K Wilson]

That sounds like a great idea. Thanks for proposing it.
I was recently recommended to this book and I'd certainly
be interested in discussing the exercises and meeting
somewhere downtown SW or SE (I'll second the No TV's motion...).

-K

[Bart Massey]

I'm in. I need to buy a copy of Okasaki; I think I've lost mine.

[Cooper Francis]

Ok, well lets try to settle in on a location. I've been to good
meetins at Lucky Lab, dorkbot meets at Backspace, and Bailey's Taproom
has been proposed. Anyone have a strong preference between these
options or have somewhere else you think should be on the table? I'm
located in SE so I'd prefer the meeting to be located accordingly, but
I have a car so getting downtown once a week isn't too much of a
problem for me.

[pbm]

I too have wanted to read this, and a reading group is probably the
push I need to get started.

As to settling on a location (and time), just propose something, e.g.,
"I'll be at the Lucky Lab, 7pm Wednesday" and if there aren't too many
complaints...

[Cooper Francis]

Ok, just going to throw out a proposal for our first meeting: Friday,
5pm at the Lucky Lab. Does anyone have a problem with this meeting
time or place?

As for content, I propose we discuss the first two chapters. That
should be quite light reading as the first chapter is just an
introduction, and the second is rather short. I think it'd be good to
have the first meeting mostly be dedicated to figuring out where
people are at and what kind of pace makes sense for this group.

[Travis Brooks]

I possibly could show to that. 5pm is a little early (even on a friday), and well, its a friday.

Which lucky lab?

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> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:49:23 -0700
> Subject: Re: Meeting.
> From: agent...@gmail.com
> To: pdx...@googlegroups.com

>
>
> Ok, just going to throw out a proposal for our first meeting: Friday,
> 5pm at the Lucky Lab. Does anyone have a problem with this meeting
> time or place?
>
> As for content, I propose we discuss the first two chapters. That
> should be quite light reading as the first chapter is just an
> introduction, and the second is rather short. I think it'd be good to
> have the first meeting mostly be dedicated to figuring out where
> people are at and what kind of pace makes sense for this group.
>

> On Aug 20, 8:57 pm, pbm wrote:
>> I too have wanted to read this, and a reading group is probably the
>> push I need to get started.
>>
>> As to settling on a location (and time), just propose something, e.g.,
>> "I'll be at the Lucky Lab, 7pm Wednesday" and if there aren't too many
>> complaints...
>>

[Max Strini]

could we push it back to 7 pm?

[Cooper Francis]

I chose 5pm to compensate for it being a Friday. Friday just happens
to be the first day that works well for me this week. If it would be
better for folks we could postpone the first meeting until next week
and have it be on a weekday, perhaps Wednesday at 7?

I was intending the meeting to be at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne.

On Aug 25, 11:56 am, Travis Brooks <travis_bro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I possibly could show to that. 5pm is a little early (even on a friday), and well, its a friday.
>
> Which lucky lab?
>
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>
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:49:23 -0700
> > Subject: Re: Meeting.

> > From: agentco...@gmail.com

[Peter McLain]

For me, Wed, Sep 2 at 7pm, works way better than anytime Fri, Aug 28.

On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Cooper Francis wrote:

I chose 5pm to compensate for it being a Friday.  Friday just happens
to be the first day that works well for me this week.  If it would be
better for folks we could postpone the first meeting until next week
and have it be on a weekday, perhaps Wednesday at 7?

I was intending the meeting to be at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne.

--  

Peter McLain

peter....@gmail.com

[Max Strini]

Yeah, 9/2 @ 7 works better for me as well.

[Cooper Francis]

Ok then, lets go ahead and settle on having the first meeting be at
the Lucky Lab Hawthorne on Wednesday (9/2) at 7pm.

The topic will be the first two chapters.

[Cooper Francis]

Hrm, I hate to have to ask this somewhat late, but would it be alright
with others in the group if we pushed the time back to 6 or 6:30 on
Wednesday? A 9:10 commitment on Wednesday has arisen that I cannot
change. If folks would rather stick with 7:00, I could just leave a
bit early which might not be that bad this time around as the reading
is rather short.

[Peter McLain]

I can make probably make 6 and definitely make 6:30.

On Aug 30, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Cooper Francis wrote:

>
> Hrm, I hate to have to ask this somewhat late, but would it be alright
> with others in the group if we pushed the time back to 6 or 6:30 on
> Wednesday? A 9:10 commitment on Wednesday has arisen that I cannot
> change. If folks would rather stick with 7:00, I could just leave a
> bit early which might not be that bad this time around as the reading
> is rather short.

--
Peter McLain
peter....@gmail.com

[Phil Tomson]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Cooper Francis<agent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hrm, I hate to have to ask this somewhat late, but would it be alright
> with others in the group if we pushed the time back to 6 or 6:30 on
> Wednesday? A 9:10 commitment on Wednesday has arisen that I cannot
> change. If folks would rather stick with 7:00, I could just leave a
> bit early which might not be that bad this time around as the reading
> is rather short.
>

I'm going to try to make it but definitely can't get there any earlier
than 7PM - I work in Wilsonville :P

Phil

[Cooper Francis]

I think the best plan will be to start at 6:30 (people who can't get
there until 7 won't miss too much), and I'll just leave at 8ish for my
other commitment. Everyone else is of course free to stick around and
discuss functional data structures.

My other commitment is only this week, so I won't be constrained for
our next meeting.

On Aug 31, 9:59 am, Phil Tomson <philtom...@gmail.com> wrote: