Michał "phoe" Herda @phoe@functional.cafe

And it's out!

#Lisp #CommonLisp #Book #TheCommonLispConditionSystem @lisp

https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484261330

I have been officially proclaimed to be the biggest threat to the Common Lisp community right now.

Well, I guess it's sort of an #AchievementUnlocked

#Lisp #CommonLisp

FYI: I'm sure that am a choleric person.

This means that, even I'm trying to keep these tendencies of mine at bay, I will sometimes make a fool of myself by speaking without thinking first and going on rants about some things.

In case you see me in such a state, I will be most grateful if you remind me that it is time to stop posting and that I should think if I shouldn't perhaps be burning in shame due to saying some stupid things I could have not said if only I thought before rambling.

Dear #GitHub Trust and Safety Team - thank you for moderating GitHub.

https://gist.github.com/phoe/c9dcb769e295c06f9963ed65d9164d1c
https://gist.github.com/phoe/ccba343687dc21e3a71d0dc6db68c96e

Once again, huge thanks to all the people who co-organized the conference: the programme chair and committee, the local co-chairs who helped ensure that all the backstage stuff happened smoothly, and the CLF infrastructure team who helped with Jitsi performance and auction site!

Thank you for flying ELS. See you next year - or earlier, during the Online Lisp Meetings! (Stay tuned for announcements of these.)

During the conference, we have auctioned off the Y Combinator Codex: https://phoe.github.io/codex.html

The final price was €500 - generously doubled by the Association of Lisp Users (represented by Robert Smith) to €1000! Thank you!

Break music was played via Rhythmbox. It was generously provided to us by Ketsa [0][1] completely free of charge! We got multiple people praising the music during the conference, please go check his stuff out!

[0] https://ketsamusic.com/artists
[1] https://open.audio/library/artists/448/

We used our own Jitsi instance for organizational announcements and live Q&A sessions. A backup Jitsi instance was prepared in case of problems with the primary one (and we actually utilized that backup due to audio issues with one of the presenters!).

We also had the Twitch chat bridged with #elsconf on Freenode IRC for people who wanted to participate in the chat without making a Twitch account.

We streamed the conference to Twitch using OBS from a single Linux computer. We had two OBS scenes: one showing the right screen (VLC for video streaming) and another one showing the conference program and local CEST time, hiding the screens and allowing for preparations.

I manually juggled all the windows in and out of the streamed screen and I manually muted and unmuted all sources during the conference, which is not the height of technical prowess, but was simple to execute - and I did value simplicity in executing this year's ELS.

For the same reason, we had a single PulseAudio sink - no complicated audio setup here. OBS was used to compress and boost audio levels in real time due to volume differences from various videos (easy) and microphones during live Q&A sessions (hard).

European Lisp Symposium @elsconf
2021 is now over! Thank you to everyone who helped with organizing it, to all the speakers, and to all participants!

https://twitch.tv/elsconf/videos

Let's take you for a short tour over how the conference was organized - see the photo.

Thread.

The Y Combinator Codex just got its own blogpost with many photos.

https://phoe.github.io/codex.html

#Calligraphy #Art #Lisp

This year at #elsconf: Charity auction and print sales of the Y Combinator Codex!

During this year's ELS, we will be selling prints and hosting an auction of the original of The Y Combinator Codex, a 42cm x 240cm calligraphy piece.

All proceeds, sans printing and shipping costs, go to Lisp-related organizations.

More information at https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/mzrwwt/els_2021_charity_auction_and_print_sales_of_the_y/

Attached: photo and a low-res scan of the piece.

#EuropeanLispSymposium #Lisp #Calligraphy #Art #Auction