From forther at comcast.net Tue Apr 22 22:45:13 2008 From: forther at comcast.net (Kevin Appert) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:45:13 -0700 Subject: [svfig-announce] Meeting April 26, 2008 Message-ID: <480E5C69.8040206@comcast.net> Urgent Note: ****Nobody has volunteered to pick up coffee for the meeting. If you'd like to do this essential job, please call Dave Jaffe at 650.892.4464 and tell him so we don't get duplicates. I suggest you call Starbucks the night before or at least an hour before on the day of the SVFIG meeting. ***** SVFIG Meeting April 26, 2008, 2008 --- this Saturday At Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA *** SEE IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SECURITY *** *** RULES AT BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE *** Main page --> <<>> Directions --> <<>> We are likely to be in our usual room - 197 A and 197 B Marked in red on this floor plan: <<>> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AGENDA 09:45 --- COFFEE AND A CHAT 10:10 --- FORTH DAY 2008 Suggest a speaker or volunteer to speak! 10:15 --- eFORTH ON OLIMEX SAM7-EX256 ARM BOARD --- C.H. Ting "I just got eForth running on an Olimex board with an AT91SAM7X256 ARM7 chip. This chip is interesting because it has 64 Kbytes of RAM, 256 Kbytes of flash, and an 8 MHz ADC. The Olimex development board includes a small color LCD display. It should be a good host for my digital storage oscilloscope project. I will talk about my efforts and demonstrate the software." NOON --- LUNCH Some folks bring their lunch, some folks go to Togos. 13:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RUMORS, RANDOM ACCESS 13:30 --- COOL STUFF AT THE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE --- Dave Jaffe Dave will describe some of the cool products that impressed him at this year's Embedded Systems Conference. 15:00 --- RANDOM ACCESS We always find _something_ to talk about. 16:00 --- ADJORN > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The schedule above may be reformatted or line-justified but please transmit verbatim or not at all. Any font you like is alright with me. No Newsgroup posts or other media distribution this month please! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wireless Internet access is anticipated (though not guaranteed) at Cogswell, so bring your wifi. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Coming to SVFIG: * Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING! * PLANNING FORTH DAY 2008 - 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: <<>> * The world's second Babbage Engine is being put together NOW at the Computer History Museum. Maybe we can have a meeting at the Computer History Museum and have a look. We'll be talking about the "One Babbage Engine Per Child" Project. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Webmaster, Dave Jaffe. Preliminary agenda along with schedule updates and discussion may frequently be found on the SVFIG email list. To subscribe send email to geoperry_at_gmail.com Please let us know if this isn't your preferred email address for the SVFIG-Announce mailing list. Thanks for your patience. Please suggest a speaker or present at a SVFIG meeting. Email me, Kevin Appert, forther_at_comcast.net (see the return address) Please do not attempt to reply to svfig-announce at ... ========================================= *** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT GETTING INTO THE MEETING *** Cogswell now secures its doors on weekends. There will be an SVFIG member at the door unless he's gone to get coffee or pee because he's had too much coffee. He'll only be there BEFORE the meeting to let you in so please try to get there before the start. 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. VERY IMPORTANT: Do not under any circumstances let any stranger past the Cogswell doors. Those who are authorized to be inside have key-cards. ___________________________________