Viking CHICKEN 2014

Please join us for this Viking CHICKEN event!

Start: Wednesday, April 30th
End: Sunday, May 4th
Where: Høyteknologisenteret, Room 2142, Bergen, Norway

Agenda:

We're planning to do mostly Lisp workshops, where people work on their favorite eggs, share code and experiences and show off their newest Emacs-shortcuts.

We have three talks scheduled on Friday 2nd May, starting at 12:00:

Lisp for newbies intoductory talk (starting from the basics) (by Adellica)
Features of CHICKEN, pros and cons (by Felix Winkelmann)
Introduction to the Comparse parser combinator library (Moritz Heidkamp)

So far, one talk is scheduled for Saturday 3rd May, starting at 12:00:

Crypto in CHICKEN for dummies (Moritz Heidkamp)
NixOS, the functional operating system (Moritz Heidkamp)

Fun discussion topics:

why does csi segfault if you reinstall an egg it's using?
- See #929 for more info.
is there a way to properly solve "zmq poll" problem? (blocking C-calls blocks srfi-18 threads)
a lisp that compiles to glsl! (lambda image)
Moritz: declarative format for building eggs
test egg: refactor / custom-reports
spiffy: cleanly exit start-server
primordial thread: why special? why exit process on thread-terminate?
(repl) : reuse?
module exports: regex

There will also be a tour around Bergen for those who wish to join, depending on weather and interest. And we'll taste some local beer!

Presentation Download

For anyone interested, here are the presentations:

Lambda Propaganda (Adellica)
What I like about CHICKEN

Attendees

Sjamaan
Peder Refsnes
Kristian Lein-Mathisen
Thomas Chust
Juergen Lorenz
Alexander Shendi
Felix Winkelmann
Shawn Rutledge
Moritz Heidkamp