Re: SBCL20 meetup: save the date / fill in the form

Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:44:50 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce,gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel
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Dear all,

> We have a form to gather relevant information:
> <https://forms.gle/FfHF8W8ptyPfMJir8>.  Please only fill it in if you
> are pretty certain that you will come!  But I hope that many of you
> will, to party like it's 20 years later than 1999.

A few updates to the SBCL20 arrangements:

Firstly, the venue, for planning hotel stays and similar: the Monday and
Tuesday sessions will be at Bundesrechenzentrum, in central Vienna
<https://osm.org/go/0JrJKLq1C?layers=N&m=>.

Secondly, the programme.  I expect that there will be substantial time
on both technical days devoted to unconference-like activities:
small-group discussions on crowdsourced topics; pair programming or
debugging; other ad-hoc activities driven by the attendees.  But there
will also be space for full-group contributions, such as demo and
lightning talk sessions, as well as longer talks; I'm pleased to be able
to say that Robert Smith from Rigetti Computing will be attending, and
talking about why SBCL's new powerpc64 backend matters for Quantum
Computing.

The sign-up form is at https://forms.gle/FfHF8W8ptyPfMJir8 -- as a
slight modification to the previous policy, please fill it in if you are
certainly or probably coming; we won't take the form filled in as a firm
commitment, but more than a mere expression of interest.

Best wishes,

Christophe