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SVFIG
Next Meeting:
Saturday, June 25th
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA |
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Bring your laptop computer and wireless card to
the meeting for free on-site Internet access at Cogswell! |
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If you would like to have meeting announcements e-mailed to you,
send the message Subscribe SVFIG Meeting Agenda to:
George Perry |
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09:45 |
Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and Pastries |
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10:00 |
- TingARM - CH Ting
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"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 |
Lunch - options include: Togos across the street or bring
your own |
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13:00 |
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 |
Nominations
If you can't be there, consider sending a
proxy. |
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14:00 |
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 |
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 |
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
Kevin Appert. |