SVFIG
Next Meeting:
Saturday, June 25th
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA
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for free on-site Internet access at Cogswell!
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Agenda to: George Perry
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09:45
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Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and
Pastries
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10:00
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- TingARM - CH Ting
"The TingARM is a single-chip single-board computer. I have one
board working and 3 boards built. I will demonstrate this board, particularly
the ADC and DAC functions."
- "I have a few Digital Storage Oscilloscope boards. If I can get some
DSO functions working, I will also show them in the meeting."
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12:00
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Lunch - options include: Togos across
the street or bring your own
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13:00
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Introductions, Announcements, Rumors,
Gossip, and Random Discussions
Potential topics include: July's lunch order-out options (Pizza or Armadillo
Willy's via Waiters on Wheels, meeting schedule, and speaker / topic
suggestions.
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13:30
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Nominations
If you can't be there, consider sending a proxy.
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14:00
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Free Software Applications - Kevin
Appert
- Listening to podcasts with or without an iPod
- Getting started rolling your own podcasts (software, service providers,
etc)
- PDF creation with Gostscript and PDF995
- No-Nags website and other resources
- HTML photo albums with JAlbum
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15:00
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Options in Networking with Friends and
Colleagues - George Perry
Linked-In, Gmail, and other services are presenting opportunities to find and
network with people who share our interests. Is it worth the trade-off in
fiddling with the thing and the privacy risks? Who owns your communications and
the ideas they represent? Who gets to see this stuff? Who gets your email
address?
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16:00
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Possible Beers and Dinner
Venues include Tied
House in Mountain View.
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Future Meeting Topics
- July
- Possible BBQ
- Other
- Math Secrets of Mosaic Industries'
QED-Forth
- Robot Parts and Pieces - vendor(s) from the RoboNexus show
- misc8051 Forth - Charley Shattuck
- Smart Dust
- A USB Device Enumerator in SwiftForth
- PID Control
- SVFIG meeting or meeting fragments as Webcast
- Forth Day 2005 in Anaheim
- Space-rated Forth chip
- Forth-based mass-market appliance computers - Canon Cat and/or QX10
- Group excursion to "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" movie
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SVFIG welcomes everyone's
participation at its monthly meetings. There are many ways to contribute:
- bring in a hardware or software item to discuss,
- present a topic in an area of expertise,
- discuss a book, paper, website, new product, new application, or an article
in Forthwrite, or
- talk about a current project.
If you would like to present at an SVFIG meeting, contact
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