Free people, competing markets and lawful government   The Austin Liberty Activists group is an Open Discussion Mailing List and Message Board serving individual citizen activists in the greater Austin Texas area. Many members are active within Austin Liberty Coalition (ALC) organizations. Open topic email exchanges via this group's mailing list are how members share, learn and develop their views on civil liberties. As this group is primarily a communication network with few restrictions orga …

This group is focused on Clojure and related Lisp languages specifically Common Lisp and Scheme as they strongly influence the approach Clojure takes. Java is a foundational system for Clojure, but the focus is not on the Java language, but the JVM and associated libraries that are the power base for Clojure. Functional programming, multi-methods, etc. will be discussed and demoed with the focus on real-world uses and power. Abstraction and advanced techniques will be discussed as well. We're lo …

This group exists to motivate its members to learn more about software development and management. At meetings, each person discusses something he or she has recently read (such as a book chapter, Wikipedia article, news article, or a piece of software itself) or created (like a simple Twitter clone) in turn in a small group. It doesn't have to be profound. Our members have discussed lean startups, OOP, being RESTful, literate programming, Scrum, and other topics.  Join us if you're interested i …