Philly Lambda 1
My company has hosted the last two Philly Lambda meetings. Toby DiPasquale gave the first presentation on Scala then Kyle Burton gave a presentation on Lisp. Both presentations were very interesting especially for a functional noob like me. There's a wealth of information amongst this group of people, so it's definitely a good experience.
Currently there are around 60 people on the mailing list. However, there's not much discussion happening on it right now. Hopefully it will pick up eventually. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what's coming up next.

That would have been quite interesting! Was it a compare and contrast sort of thing. this way we get to decide how we approach Lisp from Scala.