[svfig-announce] SVFIG Meeting --- July 28

[Kevin Appert]

SVFIG Meeting July 28, 2007 --- this Saturday

At Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive,  Sunnyvale, CA

*** SEE IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SECURITY RULES AT BOTTOM OF THIS 
MESSAGE ***

Main page --> <<<http://www.cogswell.edu>>>
Directions --> <<<http://www.cogswell.edu/directions2campus.html>>>

We are likely to be in our usual room - 197 A and 197 B
Marked in red on this floorplan:
<<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/room-map.jpg>>>

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AGENDA  

09:45  --- COFFEE AND A CHAT
	It's uncertain what sort of edibles we'll have with George absent, 
	something will be procured.

10:00 --- AN E-MAIL STRATEGY FOR HOME USERS AND SMALL BUSINESSES --- Masa Kasahara
	"My e-mail saga: What options do we have?"

10:30 --- LINUX, XEN and FEDORA 7 --- John E. Harbold
	"As  you know, desktop computers are getting more and more powerful, 
	such that they now can run several virtual operating systems at once.  
	One of these programs is call Xen*.  You will 
	be able to run more than one operating system at a time, suspend and 
	resume or migrate to another machine.  Nice!  I'll also take about the 
	IFI for Linux and the niceties of Fedora 7."
(* for more info on Xen see:<<<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/>>>)

NOON --- LUNCH
Some folks bring their lunch, some folks go to Togos.

13:30 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RUMORS, RANDOM ACCESS

14:00 --- FEFFF, A REFACTORED P16 --- Don Roberts
	"I finally found enough excuses to start building my own Forth engine. 
	Using Ting's P16 as the starting point, I refactored the RTL 
	architecture and instruction set in consideration of FPGA 
	characteristics. The ALU uses only a few percent of a $25 Spartan chip, 
	and all memory is on-chip. Synthesized from behavioral VHDL, simulation 
	indicates a clock speed of about 40 MHz."

15:30 --- BREAK

15:45 --- THINK OF SOMETHING FOR NEXT MONTH
   This means you!  

16:00 --- ADJORN

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The schedule above may be reformatted or line-justified but
please transmit verbatim or not at all.   Do not exceed
recommended dosage guidelines.  Any font you like is
okay with me.  I prefer Ariel.

No Newsgroup posts or media distribution this month please!

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

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Coming to SVFIG SOON:
  * Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING!

  * PLANNING FORTH DAY - EVERY MEETING

  
   * Andy Korsak has been working on accessing sound cards from
  Forth for amateur radio applications.  His preliminary
  work is posted at the Win32Forth Yahoo group under
  files/users/korsak.  Membership is required to see the files.
  If you don't want to jump through the hoops, Dave has posted 
  a recent version of the files here:
	<<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/SoundCardIO.zip>>>

   * The world's second Babbage Engine is coming to town.  Maybe 
  we can have a meeting at the Computer History Museum and have
  a look.  Ting should have an E-Forth written for it by then.


NOT Coming to SVFIG SOON:
*Gumstix, Propeller Forth and the Techshop Tour are all off the table
    If you're enthusiastic about any of these, we can discuss it
    at the meeting.
 
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Check the SVFIG web site at http://www.forth.org/svfig/
for last minute changes to this schedule.
The most up-to-date meeting information is at
http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html

Many thanks to our wonderful Webmeister, Dave Jaffe.

Preliminary agenda along with schedule updates and
discussion may frequently be found on the SVFIG email list.
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*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT GETTING INTO THE MEETING ***

   Cogswell in cooperation with DHS, ICE and BATFFCAPB* now
secures its doors on weekends. There will be an SVFIG member
stationed at the door from 9:45 am to 10:15  to let in recognized
attendees. If you are attending an SVFIG meeting for the first
time, please bring along a printout of the agenda to identify
your interest in Forth and gain admission. If you arrive after
10:15 AM there will be a number for you to call to alert someone
of your presence at the door. The front door will also be checked
at intervals of 20 to 30 minutes to accommodate those without
cellphones.  Those attempting to signal with semaphore or Aldis
Lamp will be sold into the dreary bondage of the Dark Lord of 
Bangalore.

VERY IMPORTANT:
   Do not under any circumstances let any stranger past the Cogswell 
doors.  Those who are authorized to be inside have key-cards.


*Bureau of Alcohol, Tabasco, Firearms, Fast Cars and Party Boats