Zurich Lisp Meeting 2011

[Luke Gorrie]

Hi!

I'd like to bring the Zurich Lisp/Scheme User Group back to life. I have the impression that this has been inactive for quite a while, and on this basis I'll sketch a bold idea for a new format. Tell me if this is overly presumptuous.

First of all: I'm working for a Lisp startup company called Teclo Networks (building IP networking devices) and we're currently establishing ourselves in Zurich. It's our intention to grow to a modest size by hiring some of the best Lisp developers in Europe and bringing them to Switzerland. In doing so I hope we'll bootstrap Zurich as a Lisp hub of sorts.

I'd like to mimic the feeling of Hans Hübner and Willem Broekema's excellent Berlin Lisp Meeting. I imagine having one meeting per month, with one or two informal talks, and content of about 50% Common Lisp and the rest a mix of Scheme, Erlang, Smalltalk, Forth, VHDL, and whatever else is interesting.

Teclo will be happy to host the meeting in our office by Zurich Enge when we open in February, and I'm sure there'll be a suitable bar or restaurant to spill over to afterwards.

I'm loosely thinking of the second monday of each month. This way it wouldn't occupy anybody's weekend, but it could connect with a visitor's long weekend in Switzerland, and it won't clash with the monthly meeting dates in Berlin (first tuesday) or Boston (last monday). I'm very flexible on this point -- I'm just putting the second monday of the month out as an idea, and perhaps we don't need a fixed policy in any case.

Anybody keen? If so I'll rustle up a couple of talks for a first meeting in february and ask you to spread the word.

Cheers,

-Luke

P.S. I'm new to Zurich myself and I'd be more than happy to meet up with hackers for a beer in the interim. Give me a ping if you're interested.

[Ties Stuij]

Excellent idea!
I'm in.

/Ties

On Dec 19, 9:15 pm, Luke Gorrie <luke.gor...@teclo.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to bring the Zurich Lisp/Scheme User Group back to life. I have the
> impression that this has been inactive for quite a while, and on this basis
> I'll sketch a bold idea for a new format. Tell me if this is overly
> presumptuous.
>
> First of all: I'm working for a Lisp startup company called Teclo Networks
> (building IP networking devices) and we're currently establishing ourselves
> in Zurich. It's our intention to grow to a modest size by hiring some of the
> best Lisp developers in Europe and bringing them to Switzerland. In doing so
> I hope we'll bootstrap Zurich as a Lisp hub of sorts.
>

> I'd like to mimic the feeling of *Hans* Hübner and *Willem* Broekema's

[Dragica]

Count me in.

[Simon Leinen]

> I'm loosely thinking of the second monday of each month. [...]

> Anybody keen? If so I'll rustle up a couple of talks for a first meeting in
> february and ask you to spread the word.

Sounds good!

I have been using Common Lisp for an IP traffic accounting system for
more than ten years, so I'm eager to hear what you guys at Teclo are
up to.
--
Simon.
Jabber/XMPP: simon....@gmail.com
Skype: sleinen

[Simon Leinen]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:27, Simon Leinen <simon....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm loosely thinking of the second monday of each month. [...]
>> Anybody keen? If so I'll rustle up a couple of talks for a first meeting in
>> february and ask you to spread the word.
>
> Sounds good!

Ouch. The second Monday in February (14 February) falls on Zurich
school vacation where folks with kids are expected to go skiing... so
I would prefer another date for the first meeting :-( e.g. 7
February).
--
Simon.

[nickik]

Hallo,

I was looking for a lisp user group a few months ago and didn't find
anything. I think its great that you want to start one and I will come
for sure.

Any monday would be ok for me.

Good luck with your startup and I really hope that Zurich will become
a lisp mekka :)

On Dec 19 2010, 10:15 pm, Luke Gorrie <luke.gor...@teclo.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to bring the Zurich Lisp/Scheme User Group back to life. I have the
> impression that this has been inactive for quite a while, and on this basis
> I'll sketch a bold idea for a new format. Tell me if this is overly
> presumptuous.
>
> First of all: I'm working for a Lisp startup company called Teclo Networks
> (building IP networking devices) and we're currently establishing ourselves
> in Zurich. It's our intention to grow to a modest size by hiring some of the
> best Lisp developers in Europe and bringing them to Switzerland. In doing so
> I hope we'll bootstrap Zurich as a Lisp hub of sorts.
>

> I'd like to mimic the feeling of *Hans* Hübner and *Willem* Broekema's

[Thomas Kappler]

Hi Luke et al., that's a great idea.

I'm not in Zurich at the moment, but will move there in April to join
a startup (no Lisp, sadly). I'm still a Lisp newbie and am slowly
working my way through Land of Lisp, and have dabbled in Racket/PLT
scheme and Erlang, too.

So I'd be happy to join the group from April on, just wanted to write
now to add my support to the idea.

-- Thomas

P.S. You know the Zurich housing market - if you hear about someone
moving out of their apartment, I'd appreciate a mail. Thanks!

On Dec 19 2010, 10:15 pm, Luke Gorrie <luke.gor...@teclo.net> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'd like to bring the Zurich Lisp/Scheme User Group back to life. I have the
> impression that this has been inactive for quite a while, and on this basis
> I'll sketch a bold idea for a new format. Tell me if this is overly
> presumptuous.
>
> First of all: I'm working for a Lisp startup company called Teclo Networks
> (building IP networking devices) and we're currently establishing ourselves
> in Zurich. It's our intention to grow to a modest size by hiring some of the
> best Lisp developers in Europe and bringing them to Switzerland. In doing so
> I hope we'll bootstrap Zurich as a Lisp hub of sorts.
>

> I'd like to mimic the feeling of *Hans* Hübner and *Willem* Broekema's