SVFIG
Meeting Agenda for
Saturday, July 28, 2001

at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA

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09:45

Coffee and Donuts

10:00

Technical Session: Forth Tools for Motion Control -
Speakers on this topic or other technical topics are invited to present.

12:00

Lunch - Barbeque - by Ting
Networking, demonstrations, and tutorials
Sign up for inpromptu talks by name and topic on the white board

13:00

Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip

13:30

Featured Talk: - iBook, Mac OS X, etc. John Hall
John will bring a new iBook (they are now small and square) and his Titanium G4 PowerBook. If he has enough time to prepare, he will also show the Mac OS X operating system and both gforth and This Forth (Unix forths) running on Mac OS X.

14:30

Break for afternoon tea
Networking and demonstrations.

15:00

Impromptu Talk: -
Sign up for a time slot on the white board during the break. Those who have done motion control programming are particularly invited to sign up.

16:00

Adjourn

Next Business Meeting: Monday, July 30, 2001, 7pm
Those with ideas for the next agenda and would like to get more involved in the general meeting process are invited to attend the Business Meeting at at Pierre's Express Chinese Restaurant, 211 South San Mateo Dr. (corner of San Mateo Dr. and 2nd Ave.) in San Mateo (415/343-7485).

Future Meeting Topics:

August - Forth under Unix/Linux - Forthing around under these OS's (Baden's "This Forth")

September - Speaking Forth - Getting Forth to Interpret Non-text Input

October - open (This Topic - Badenese)

November - Forth Day (no focus yet)

Anyone who would like to present at an SVFIG meeting should contact John D. Carpenter, john.carpenter@stanford.edu

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