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Edsu has already made a google group so I guess some of the discussion can also go there: http://groups.google.com/group/books4code Eby On 8/15/06, Edward Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > So a bunch of us in #code4lib are thinking of starting up a book club > to read tech books together, learn from each other in the process, > and hopefully use a bit of peer pressure to propel ourselves into > actually finishing a book. > > The first book we're propsing to read is Practical Common Lisp [1] > which is available in print and also online. Lisp and functional > languages in general are enjoying a bit of a renaissance at the > moment, so we figured this might be a good one to start with. It won > a Jolt Award [2], and is also very umm...practical--building working > code to parse ID3 tags (metadata!) and the like. > > Should we create a google group or something? Any suggested name for > the group? Is there really any need to limit our membership to people > in libraries? How about books4code? > > Interested? Suggestions? Bueller? There's a page [3] on the code4lib > site, but feel free to respond in here. > > [1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ > [2] http://www.ddj.com/joltawards/ > [3] http://www.code4lib.org/bookclub >