[svfig-announce] Meeting Aug 23, 2008 - NOT COGSWELL

[Kevin Appert]

This announcement is early!  Please note the date of the meeting.
There may be changes, so check the website.
If you have questions, contact Dave Jaffe.
Check the SVFIG web site at http://www.forth.org/svfig/


SVFIG Meeting August 23, 2008 ---

!!! NOT AT COGSWELL !!!

Cogswell is still closed so again we'll use an
alternative venue.

We'll be on the fifth floor of Terman Engineering Center --- Room 556
for Saturday for SVFIG

Maps of Stanford are at:
http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/map/
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/

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AGENDA
10:30 --- COFFEE AND A CHAT

10:40  ---  FORTH DAY 2008
Suggest a speaker or volunteer to speak!

11:00 --- FIRMWARE ENGINEERING WORKSHOP FOR ARM7 --- CH Ting
"I just finished the flash programming part of this DSO project.  On 
booting, eForth copies itself from Flash memory to RAM and runs from 
RAM.  Application written in FORTH is compiled to dictionary in RAM. 
The extended image of the entire eForth system can now be written back 
to Flash memory.  After reset, the new image is copied from Flash and 
runs correctly in RAM.  This last leg thus completes the firmware 
development cycle."


NOON --- LUNCH
Some folks bring their lunch, some will eat on-campus or nearby.

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

14:00 ---  MUSIC EDUCATION --- Masa Kasahara
Masa has spent a great deal of time searching for the ideal platform to 
run his music education programs. He has looked at many handheld devices 
which would provide the portability required to practice anywhere. 
Important feature include light weight, commercial availability, ease of 
use, ease of developing programs, and PC compatibility. Masa is 
investigating the Allegro multi-platform game library for this project.


14:30 --- RANDOM ACCESS
Will it be random or just pseudo-random?  We always find _something_ to
talk about.  Will videos be shown?  Maybe.

16:00 --- ADJORN

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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!

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Wireless Internet access is NOT anticipated
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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:
    <<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/SoundCardIO.zip>>>

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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 Webmaster, Dave Jaffe.

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