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I know of 5 people interested in attending on Monday.
Jamie Allen
Steve Buzzard
Dave Esterkin
Michael Pigg
Sunil Verma
On Aug 27, 9:45 am, "Kyle R. Burton" <kyle.bur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking of the following options:
>
> 1. I can call the Gryphon Cafe and see if we can use the upstairs room.
>
> This would probably be pretty private, they have coffee, and supposedly have
> a full lunch menu. Parking is probably fine if we get there before 12 (lots
> of parking on Wayne Ave), close to the Wayne stop on the R5.
>
> 2. The food court at the KoP Mall, near Sears.
>
> This has more choices for food and coffee, but may be more convenient for
> others.
>
> Any other venue ideas?
>
> Also, I'm pleasantly surprised at the response, I only expected a handful of
> people!
>
> Kyle
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:21 AM, J Summers <frozenteradac...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Where is the 8/30 meeting being held?
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> > On Aug 26, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Kyle R. Burton wrote:
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> > This sounds like a great idea. While we do not currently use Clojure, it is
> >> definitely something we are interested in. Unfortunately, getting out to the
> >> suburbs, especially mid-day, is close to impossible for me and certainly for
> >> this upcoming Monday, I could not make it. However, if you are taking
> >> suggestions on topics[1], I would be *highly motivated* to get out there if
> >> the discussions focused on:
>
> > Since I'm in the burbs it's convenient for me - we could organize something
> > for downtown - but as you have trouble getting out here in a reasonable
> > time, I have trouble getting down there in a reasonable time...we'll work
> > something out - perhaps we'll do one in september and I'll just work from
> > Philly for a day....
>
> >> 1. Clojure and concurrency in depth (i.e. more that just, "immutable data
> >> makes for safer/easier concurrent programs")
> >> 2. Incanter (i.e. "Incanter for SciPy users" or "Incanter for MATLAB
> >> users" type of discussion)
> >> 3. Clojure on "deeply embedded systems" (i.e. no operating system, JVM
> >> right on the silicon running Clojure)
>
> > I dont' know that I can talk to all of these, but I'd love to hear
> > discussion about them as well. I know from the mailing list that some
> > people have clojure running (or are close to having it running) on android.
> > Not sure about other embedded systems though. I've used incanter once, but
> > would love to learn more about it...same goes for the concurrency features.
>
> > I personally have found that the immutability, by default / encouraged, has
> > made for a lot less issues and worries about code that I write in
> > Clojure...be a great discussion topic.
>
> >> I'm sure there are other topics that I would be interested in, but, in the
> >> short-term, getting more insight into the above three from some real-world
> >> Clojure users could definitely kick me in the butt hard enough to get out to
> >> the burbs and tolerate some "stalwart lispers waxing pathetic about how
> >> superior their s-exprs are over club sandwiches." ;-)
>
> >> BTW, thanks for being a driving force in getting the Philly Tech community
> >> together (on various fronts) ... its much appreciated.
>
> > I want to meet interesting people, my only choice is to organize some stuff
> > or I wont' get to meet them. Just trying to make the kind of environment I
> > want to live in :)
>
> > Thanks though, I recognize that organizing is mostly a thankless task -
> > look at Aaron and all that he does - so I do appreciate that you appreciate
> > it :)
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Best Regards,
>
> > Kyle
>
> > --
> > Twitter: @kyleburton
> > Blog:http://asymmetrical-view.com/
> > Fun:http://snapclean.me/
>
> > J Summers
> > summer...@acm.org
> > 1+215-794-2485
> > 1+215-534-1297
> > 1+215-544-9161
> >www.grownspacelimited.com
>
> --
> Twitter: @kyleburton
> Blog:http://asymmetrical-view.com/
> Fun:http://snapclean.me/
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