(inc) for Ambrose and for your insight on Sussman's talk.

On Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:54 AM, David Nolen wrote:

> Just making sure this post doesn't get lost in the shuffle. Ambrose's 
> contributions to core.match have been incredible and his continuing 
> contributions on core.logic in terms of tutorials and documentation are an 
> essential resource.
>  
> It would be a serious loss if Ambrose doesn't make it to the Conj so that he 
> can share his fantastic expertise about these libraries with the community.
>  
> I have little doubt that he'll be a key contributor to the predicate dispatch 
> evolution of core.match as well the constraint logic programming evolution of 
> core.logic. Gerald Sussman at Strange Loop expressed his belief that this 
> paradigm could have deep implications for how we think about problems and 
> develop software and others like Peter Van Roy have been saying this for a 
> while now.  
>  
> Please help out in any way that you can!
>  
> David
>  
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com 
> (mailto:cemer...@snowtide.com)> wrote:
> > I wanted to let the list know about a 'scholarship' fundraiser I've started 
> > for this year's Conj:
> > >  
> > > About a year ago, I had the distinct privilege of having a front-row seat 
> > > when the generosity of the Clojure community (and others!) helped Anthony 
> > > Grimes (aka Raynes) attend the 2010 Clojure Conj. Witnessing the success 
> > > of that process made me certain that I would attempt to coordinate 
> > > another “scholarship” fundraising drive for this year’s Clojure Conj.
> > >  
> > > Like Anthony last year, I wanted to help someone that:
> > >  
> > > • had already contributed significantly to the Clojure community,  
> > > • clearly has great potential, but
> > > • without some financial assistance, would not be able to attend the Conj 
> > > and benefit from the meeting-of-the-minds that such conferences uniquely 
> > > enable.
> > > Over the summer, it became clear to me that Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant was 
> > > that someone.
> > Click here to read more and help out:  
> >  
> > http://cemerick.com/2011/09/20/2011-clojure-scholarship-help-send-ambrose-to-the-conj/
> >   
> >  
> > Thanks!
> >  
> > - Chas  
> >  
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