SVFIG
Next Meeting:
Saturday, December 17th
Third Saturday
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA

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Meeting Agenda

Special Notice:
If you're familiar with HS-Forth or have HS-Forth Documentation, please
contact Elizabeth Rather at FORTH Inc. (erather.at.forth.com) as soon as
possible. (Replace the .at. with @ for her email address or call her at
800/55-FORTH.) 

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09:45 --- "A Jolly Nice Cup of Coffee" (Lionel Hardcastle from 'As Time Goes
By') 

10:00 --- OFFETE IS ON-LINE FINALLY -- C. H. Ting.
"I have just opened a business account on Yahoo, and put up most of the
Offete documentation on-line. It is http://www.offete.com. Please visit the
eForth Academy and peek into the library. I have PayPal, but have not yet
figured out how to do on-line business."  

NOON --- LUNCH
Some go to TOGO's, some bring their own and stay at Cogswell

1:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RUMORS, RANDOM ACCESS

1:30 --- PHOTO STORY -- Dave Jaffe
Dave will demonstrate Windows Photo Story, a free flexible Windows XP
application that creates a video from a collection of photos, videos,
captions, and music. 

2:45 --- INTERMISSION

3:15 --- IT GOES BEEP! -- Kevin Appert
A short program in SwiftForth (I thought this was an oxymoron.) and a long
diatribe about the SwiftForth and SwiftX emailing lists. 

IF THERE'S TIME --- RANDOM ACCESS
Topics from the assembled Forth success stories

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Wireless Internet access is anticipated (though not guaranteed) at Cogswell,
so bring your wifi. 

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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.