ZSLUG meeting Monday next week the 7th
Ties Stuij
speaker, the group has it's own blog-space, and most importantly, an
FPGA board raffle at the end!)
Title: Zurich Lisp & Stuff User Group (ZSLUG) rebirth!
Date: Monday February 7th, 2011
Time: 7pm onwards
Venue: Office of Teclo Networks AG, Alfred-Escher-Strasse 27, 8002 Zurich.
Directions: Train to Enge and then walk one block.
Speaker #1: Hans Hübner on Creating computers from (almost) scratch
using FPGAs, VHDL and Forth.
Speaker #2: We were a tiny bit lazy/busy finding a second speaker, so
Luke is gonna do a talk on using Lisp in processing millions of
packets a second inside mobile operators networks.Then: Wander off for
food drink and conversation somewhere nearby.
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Updatey bits: Now find the dedicated ZSLUG blog at
zslug.wordpress.com. I (Ties) am playing with the idea of doing some
writeups of the nights. I always enjoyed Bill Clementson's
post-meeting writeups. And perhaps even attempt to capture it on
video, even though I know how painful that usually turns out to be.
As you can see above, Luke is gonna do a talk about his new telecom
startup thing. Will he show how CL shreds in the mobile space, or will
he shred CL? He's a fickle (dynamic; I mean dynamic) chap, so you
never know. Be the first to hear, right here in Zurich.
And! We're gonna do an FPGA raffle, possibly with Hans's rekonstrukt
Forth borg-system already on it.
Original announcement text from Luke's blog:
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Interested in Lisp and Zurich? You're in luck! The first meeting of
the reborn Zurich Lisp & Stuff User Group (ZSLUG) is just for you.
Luke Gorrie and Ties Stuij have taken it upon ourselves to revive this
meeting as part of our broad new effort to put Zurich onto the
Euro-Lisp map.
ZSLUG is above all else a Common Lisp meeting. We're aiming for a
50/50 mixture of Common Lisp with other delicacies such as Smalltalk,
Forth, Erlang, VHDL, R, Scheme, and anything else that's likely to
delight the Lisper palate.
We're excited to already have confirmed prominent Common Lisp hacker
Hans Hübner as speaker, and we expect to announce a second speaker
before the meeting. Follow us on @zlisp if you want to keep
up-to-the-minute!
Everybody is welcome at ZSLUG. The meeting will be very informal and
you can be as social as you want to be. The default language is
English and no registration is required, but a tweet to @zlisp to let
us know you're coming would be greatly appreciated!
Historical Note: ZSLUG is our rebirth of the Zurich Scheme & Lisp User
Group created by Jose A. Ortega Ruiz who has since moved on from
Zurich. We switched from Scheme to Stuff -- sorry, we're not Schemers!