The initiative for these has started after this year's European Lisp Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. This year's formula, in order to adapt to its online form, included pre-recorded videos from all speakers, which were streamed on Twitch; the speakers, along with all participants, were available on Twitch chat for live commentary during the talk.
I thought two things: one, that this formula turned out to be surprisingly nice to participate in, and that it would be beneficial for the broader Lisp community to have more chances to meet, talk, and brainstorm than just once per year. This is why I have implemented the idea for cyclic online Lisp meetings, and it seems to have taken off well! So far, the meetings have been occurring regularly since May on a mostly-every-two-weeks schedule. (Sometimes it's three weeks, and sometimes one week.)
The toughest thing that I am personally facing is that I am a Common Lisp programmer and I think that this is reflected in the videos; most of the programmers I know (and therefore have invited) who use any dialect of Lisp are Common Lisp programmers. So far, only one talk in the series is not using Common Lisp, and I would like that to change - the European Lisp Symposium is not Common Lisp-centric, and, in my opinion, neither should the Online Lisp Meetings be.
If you're doing anything related to Lisp and you consider interesting enough to share, please let me know - I'll gladly accept your prerecorded talk and host it on a Twitch stream in order to make it available to our (mostly European) audience for synchronized watching and chat, and then upload it to YouTube for more permanent storage.
The initiative for these has started after this year's European Lisp Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. This year's formula, in order to adapt to its online form, included pre-recorded videos from all speakers, which were streamed on Twitch; the speakers, along with all participants, were available on Twitch chat for live commentary during the talk.
I thought two things: one, that this formula turned out to be surprisingly nice to participate in, and that it would be beneficial for the broader Lisp community to have more chances to meet, talk, and brainstorm than just once per year. This is why I have implemented the idea for cyclic online Lisp meetings, and it seems to have taken off well! So far, the meetings have been occurring regularly since May on a mostly-every-two-weeks schedule. (Sometimes it's three weeks, and sometimes one week.)
The toughest thing that I am personally facing is that I am a Common Lisp programmer and I think that this is reflected in the videos; most of the programmers I know (and therefore have invited) who use any dialect of Lisp are Common Lisp programmers. So far, only one talk in the series is not using Common Lisp, and I would like that to change - the European Lisp Symposium is not Common Lisp-centric, and, in my opinion, neither should the Online Lisp Meetings be.
If you're doing anything related to Lisp and you consider interesting enough to share, please let me know - I'll gladly accept your prerecorded talk and host it on a Twitch stream in order to make it available to our (mostly European) audience for synchronized watching and chat, and then upload it to YouTube for more permanent storage.
The announcements for new meetings are made at https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/online-lisp-meets and on /r/Lisp on Reddit.