Re: [lisp-59] Status? [Reminder: The New York Functional Programmers September Meetup is tomorrow.]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Shahbaz Chaudhary wrote:

> I probably won't be able to make it to this meeting.  We had a large
> attendance for the first and second meetings.  Perhaps it is time for
> us to make these meetings a bit more structured; invite guests, have
> members give talks on how they use FP langs (or how they plan on using
> them), etc.  Otherwise, I'm afraid, our members will start to loose
> interest.

I don't disagree, but the problem with this is that every time I've seen 
it done, there is some poor schmuck who gets stuck spending a couple of 
days a month trying to drum up someone to give a talk.  And getting blamed 
when the speaker isn't up to par.  I'm not willing to be that schmuck.

Let me ask this question: are *you* willing to give a talk on something? 
Maybe on the demands of the finance industry, and how they're met with 
functional programming?

Brian