Edit ``Community''

Lisp is commonly held to be a dead language, so you're probably wondering about evidence of some signs of life here.  In the last few years (since 2001 or so), the Free Common Lisp community has seen:

<ul>
<li>At least four new or recently invigorated projects to produce free Lisp implementations:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/">Steel Bank Common Lisp</a> (_(SBCL))</li>
<li><a href="http://openmcl.clozure.com/">Open Macintosh Common Lisp</a> (_(OpenMCL))</li>
<li><a href="http://ecls.sourceforge.net/">Embeddable Common Lisp</a> (_(ECLS))</li>
<li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gcl">GNU Common Lisp</a> (_(GCL))</li>
</ul>

<li> other free Lisp implementations continuing to develop with their customary previous vigour:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.cons.org/cmucl/">Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp</a> (_(CMUCL))</li>
<li><a href="http://cons.org/cmucl/">If above doesn't work for CMUCL, try this.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clisp.sf.net/">CLisp</a> (_(CLISP))</li>
</ul>

<li> This site, a popular Wiki-like web site for free CL resources grew from
   basically nothing and 100 daily page views at its inception in May
   2000 to 8000 pages (maybe about half of them describing real free CL
   projects or applications; the others include navigational pages,
   homepages, documents, wishlists, vapourware projects, hints and
   tips etc) and 1-2000 page views/day in December 2003 (these numbers are ballpark at best)
   
<a href="http://ww.telent.net/cliki/">http://www.cliki.net/</a>

<li>Project hosting service for open source Common Lisp projects: <a href="http://common-lisp.net/">Common-lisp.net</a></li>

<li><u>Two</u> projects (overlapping marginally, different emphases) to create archives of free Lisp code along the lines of CTAN or CPAN:
    <ul>
    <li>Comprehensive Common Lisp Archive Network (_(CCLAN)) - <a href="http://cclan.sourceforge.net/">http://cclan.sourceforge.net/</a> (see also _(asdf-install))</li>
    <li>Common Lisp Open Code Collection (_(CLOCC)) - <a href="http://clocc.sourceforge.net/">http://clocc.sourceforge.net/</a> - a source of mostly portable code for Common Lisp</li>
    </ul>

<li>A similar project for scheme, the Comprehensive Scheme Archive Network, has been started on
     <a href="http://strader.xs4all.nl/csan/index.html">http://strader.xs4all.nl/csan/index.html</a>.

<li>An _(IRC) channel on the Open Projects network with about 150-200 users (at some times of day, I'm told, it has had more people connected than are in any other language-based channel on that net except C)

<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#lisp">irc.freenode.net / #lisp</a>

<li> Vendors of commercial Lisp implementations (Franz) and Lisp-based applications (_(onShore)) releasing significant and useful projects to the Open Source community.

<li> _(Weblog)s

<li> _(Event)s and _(Conference)s:
<ul>
<li>_(International Lisp Conference 2005)
<li><a href="http://alu.cliki.net/DS%20GROK%20LC">DS GROK LC</a> meeting
</ul>
</ul>

Technical fixes for social problems: software which facilitates bringing people together.
<ul>
<li> _(Cliki), the software running this site
<li> _(Climbatree), a CL version of advogato's trust metric
</ul>

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