BAA London

Contents

  1. BAA London
    1. Introduction
    2. Forthcoming meetings
      1. now confirmed as 2010-03-29 at the Knights Templar
  2. Recent meetings
  3. Publicity
  4. Members
    1. Add your name
  5. Critique
    1. Design Decisions
    2. Keep it short
    3. Seeing APL

Introduction

BAA London is a discussion group about APL. It is loosely affiliated to the British APL Association (BAA) but you don't have to be a member of the BAA to come to the meetings. Visitors to London and strangers to APL and its dialects are always welcome at our meetings.

Currently we meet at 2pm on the last Friday of the month at the Knights Templar

We are still open to suggestions on what to do, how to do it, and where best to meet. Go to RunningBAAlondon if you want to follow the discussions about how we should do it.

Forthcoming meetings

The March meeting was expected to be on 2010-03-26 - the last Friday ...

now confirmed as 2010-03-29 at the Knights Templar

The last Monday (Monday) in March.

Discussions about topics, location, and any need to change the date will appear BAALondon GoogleGroup soon. If you have a topic that you would like to see on the agenda go there and tell us, whether it is something you want to hear about or something you want to say.

We are the agenda. Add your name if you are going to attend, plus a topic if you want to raise one. Or just email your ideas and questions to me <wiki AT SPAMFREE ellismorgan DOT co DOT uk>.

Recent meetings

Baal2010

meetings in 2010.

Baal2009

last few meetings in 2009.

Baal0907

The seventh BAA London meeting was held on 27 August 2009 - more on Direct Development.

Baal0906

StephenTaylor spoke about Direct Development, a conversation he has been developing about how software gets developed in APL and some other dynamic languages.

Baal0905

Fifth meeting on 15 May 2009 … see also TenGoodThings.

Baal0903

PhilLast on his code repository system, plus various discussions.

Baal0902

Education in APL.

Baal0901

Started with no theme, but we moved to holding a single meeting to discuss how we should organise ourselves.

Baal0812

Was combined with a Christmas party and no minutes were kept.

Baal0811

The first meeting had no theme and saw small group discussions in corners of the room.

Publicity

Before each meeting we ask a group member to post its details in the following places:

here

BAALondon Google Group

comp.lang.apl

Dyalog Users Group

Vector

continued here

Members are encouraged to do the same in places we may not otherwise think of, and to post links to the WIKI there too. To avoid duplication this is where I know links have been put:

Gary's guide

and this...

continued here

A reminder should be sent to BAALondon Google Group and comp.lang.apl a week before the meeting.

Members

EllisMorgan StephenTaylor

Add your name

Members are invited to add their names here. To do so you need to be a member of the WIKI in the trusted group. If you would like me to add your name without joining, just send me an email <wiki AT SPAMFREE ellismorgan DOT co DOT uk>. You are also welcome to email me if you want to do it yourself but can not find the help you need. That will test my WIKI skills, but before you do take a look here HelpForBeginners.

Critique

This page was created by EllisMorgan, starting on 3 March 2009. It is the first wiki page of any size I have created and I am learning as I go along. If you see anything you think can be improved, just go ahead and do it. But if your changes amount to a sizeable redesign and overhaul it might be polite to leave some reasons for your actions here. In any event please use the comment field provided with the editor so we can see what is happening from the page's "info" button.

Design Decisions

For example, in the Previous meetings section should I explain that the blue Baalxxxx entries are links to full minutes of each meeting and that their name tells you the month and year of the meeting? My view is that it is very obvious and when you link to the minutes there is more than enough detail there.

Keep it short

Maintaining this wiki page is a good subject for "how we run the group", so if you want to start a lengthy discussion about it, please move to BAALondon GoogleGroup.

Seeing APL

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|⍞|   //     \\   |⍞|
|⍞|  //       \\  |⍞|
|⍞| //         \\ |⍞|
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If the characters above do not appear on your screen as I describe them below, please visit AplCharacters for help about how to choose the options that allow your browser to display APL characters. Both towers of the bridge should appear vertical if the right tower does not it means you are displaying proportional spaces and need to tweak your browser settings. 

∆ capital delta
⍞ quote quad (quote in a box)
⌹ domino (divide in a box)

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