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SVFIG
Next Meeting:
Saturday, October 22nd
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA |
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Bring your laptop computer and wireless card for
free on-site
Internet access at Cogswell during the meeting! |
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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 |
A Stroll through Nifty Websites - Kevin Appert
- Kevin will guide us through some interesting websites. Feel
free to browse them before the meeting.
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Google Earth – Explore, Search, and Discover
http://earth.google.com/
"Billed as
the 3D Interface to our planet. Some areas such as Camp David may be blurry,
some others may not."
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a9.com
http://www.a9.com
"Yellow pages on steroids
with pictures of the storefronts and what's down the street."
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maps.a9.com
http://maps.a9.com/
"Map with pictures of
many places' storefronts - most of San Francisco and all of downtown Palo
Alto."
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maps.google.com
http://maps.google.com
"Never go
anyplace without satellite imagery of your destination - maps, satellite
reconnaissance, and satellite images with maps overlay."
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12:00 |
Lunch - options include: Togos, Waiters on Wheels, or
bring your own |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Gossip, and Random
Discussions
- Potential discussion items include: SVFIG meeting schedule,
and future speaker / topic suggestions.
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13:30 |
Forth Day is coming in
November!
- Please consider giving a short presentation and suggest other
potential speakers.
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14:00 |
Review of RoboNexus 2005 - Dave Jaffe and Kevin
Appert
- Dave and Kevin will show photos from the event and describe
all the interesting hardware and software that was on display.
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15:15 |
Ear Training Project - Kevin Appert
- Kevin will solicit people to work on this project.
Implementation options include using the motherboard "beep" timer or SwiftForth
Sound Card Interface.
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15:45 |
Panel Discussion - Kevin Appert
- Recently, an attempt was made to elevate a particular result
in the order in which Google presents its search results. So far, there has
been no success. Do some research and bring some ideas on how to "stuff the
ballot box" at Google.
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Time permitting |
Random Access Topics - All in attendance
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16:00 |
Possible Beers and Dinner
Venues include
Tied House in
Mountain View. |
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Please register your interest for these future meeting
topics:
- Forth Success Stories - look at the ones on
FIG's and
FORTH, Inc.'s
webpages and bring your own!
- TI's free SPICE distribution
- Name that antenna
- Introduction to Linux
- George Perry's experiences installing Linux
- Linux installation party
- Smart Dust
- Math Secrets of Mosaic Industries'
QED-Forth
- Robot Parts and Pieces - vendor(s) from the 2004 RoboNexus
show
- misc8051 Forth - Charley Shattuck
- Smart Dust
- SVFIG meeting or meeting fragments as Webcast
- Space-rated Forth chip
- Forth-based mass-market appliance computers - Canon Cat
and/or QX10
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SVFIG welcomes everyone's participation at its monthly meetings.
There are many ways you can contribute:
- bring in a hardware or software item to discuss,
- present a topic in your area of expertise,
- discuss a book, paper, website, new product, new application,
or an article in Forthwrite, or
- talk about your current project.
If you would like to present at an SVFIG meeting, contact
Kevin Appert. |