October 2016 Meeting Notes

October 2016 Meeting Notes Compiled by Dave Jaffe Contributions from Kevin Appert and others SVFIG on Google+ Hangout: long url - tinyurl SVFIG on Google+ - SVFIG on YouTube - SVFIG on YouTube Live Videos: morning (0:45:27) - afternoon (2:35:43)
10:15	Sound Check We'll be trying out a few things in preparation for Forth Day. The goal is to provide audio from the wireless microphone to the room's public address system, while maintaining the connection to the live YouTube stream. Dave Jaffe will also be testing the handheld wireless microphones he purchased from Fry's. Does anyone have a line-level mixer? We may decide to mix these in for Q&A or random hecklers.
10:44	Mailing List - George Perry George will provide a status report regarding some recent issues with Zork, SVFIG's listserv.
11:04	Coming Attractions: Forth Day - Kevin Appert Kevin will identify people who will speak on Forth Day.
11:30	Lunch Dave Jaffe says, "This is Homecoming / Class Reunion Week at Stanford, so there will be a lot of people on campus - we should get to The Treehouse for lunch promptly by 11:30am".
13:00	Introductions, Gossip, New Things The disposition of the "Haydon Hoard" of books, software, and other material Photo of SVFIG gang at Glen Haydon's home Thanks to our new Meetup host - Andreas Wagner And more!
13:15	Gforth under RTEMS - John E. Harbold John will discuss the challenges and his progress in getting Gforth to run under RTEMS. This is a sneak preview of his upcoming Forth Day talk.
13:45	Break
14:00	Game Development in Forth - Roger Levy "I'll discuss the core of the framework I've been working on and a work-in-progress engine definition. I'll also introduce a new namespaceing concept called idioms." Slides
15:10	Ad Hoc, Ad Lib, and Ad Rates We might flip through the meeting notes and videos from Forth Days past.
16:00	Clean Up and Adjourn
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