[svfig-announce] Annual Forth Day, Third Saturday, 16650-November-2012

Kevin Appert forther at comcast.net
Tue Nov 12 12:55:11 UTC 2013


-------Annual Forth Day-------
------The Third Saturday------
-------16-November-2013-------
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The agenda is online here:
http://home.comcast.net/~forther/SVFIG/

This Month is Forth Day!  The schedule is packed!!
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MEETUP

If you are coming, please go to Meetup.com and sign up for this meeting! 
  http://www.meetup.com/SV-FIG/

If you're not coming, registering your regrets is unnecessary.

When the meeting is done, please go to Meetup and give us a good review!

If you are coming, an acknowledgement makes us more attractive to 
potential new participants.

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MEETING LOCATION

The meeting will be held in Building 550 (aka Peterson Building)
Directions and map links are below and at the web site:
http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html
PRINT OUT A MAP TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR WAY!!!

*** DO NOT ASK STANFORD STUDENTS TO LET YOU IN
AND DO NOT ENTER THE BUILDING BEHIND STUDENTS ***

Enter the building from the Panama Mall side.   The door is
labeled: "Building 550 - Mechanical Engineering Design Group".
The sign with the SVFIG logo will be near the door.
It's the same logo as the one on the home page here:
http://www.forth.org/svfig/
If the door is locked then look for the SVFIG Radio-telemetry Doorbell 
Button.  If there isn't someone from SVFIG at the door to let you in, 
press the button or call the cell phone number on the sign.

The Official SVFIG Announcement Editor's Parking Lot Recommendation is
the lot near the intersection of Santa Teresa St. and Lomita Dr.

http://goo.gl/maps/1liH

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Teresa+St+and+Lomita+Dr.+,+Stanford,+CA&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.775203,79.013672&hnear=Lomita+Dr+%26+Santa+Teresa+St,+Stanford,+Santa+Clara,+California+94305&t=m&z=16
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SPEAKERS' SCHEDULE

The agenda is online here:
http://home.comcast.net/~forther/SVFIG/

The schedule is now finalized but if there are any substantial last 
minute changes made after this notice is emailed then they will be made 
to the online schedule and marked in red.

Feedback - is the online schedule okay?  Do you need/want a printable 
PDF?  Any other comments or concerns?
Email to forther<at>comcast<dot>net

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This announcement and the online Speakers' Schedule  may be reformatted 
or line-justified but please transmit verbatim or not at all.   Any font 
you like is fine with me.  A link to Meetup, the schedule page, or the 
SVFIG website is preferred.

No Newsgroup posts or other media distribution please!

Kevin Appert is the Program Chair and he produces this announcement and 
the online Speaker's Schedule.  Note that this is distinct from the 
SVFIG and FIG website content.

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***WIFI AVAILABLE***
A guest account password will be provided at the meeting.
There is NO Public Wireless Internet access at Stanford.
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If you see "Free Public WIFI" in your networks at Stanford or for that 
matter in any public place BEWARE!  Zombie networks since 2006 or so!
<<<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/10/free_public_wifi_does_not_exis.html>>>
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*** Computer FreeCycle, ForSale, Rummage, Disposal ***

      We'll bring our unused computer and other electronics to give away 
or sell at the meeting.  You must be prepared to remove your unwanted 
items as we can NOT leave anything behind at the end of the day.
      There is a SMALL electronics (cell phones, calculators, PDAs, and 
items of similar size) recycling bucket in the building as well as a 
battery recycling bucket for conventional household battery chemistry 
ONLY.  No Hydrogen Peroxide fuel cells or Dilithium crystals.
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* Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING!
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Check the online agenda for last minute changes
to the schedule.

The most up-to-date SVFIG information is online:
Speakers' Schedule  ---  http://home.comcast.net/~forther/SVFIG/

Navigational and other organizational information --- 
http://www.forth.org/svfig

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_dot_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.

Please do not attempt to reply to svfig-announce at ...
send instead to forther_at_comcast_dot_net
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NAVIGATIONAL ADVICE

Enter the building from the Panama Mall side. Look for the sign with the 
SVFIG logo.  If the door is locked there will be a SVFIG doorbell button 
to the left of the door.  DO NOT POUND ON THE DOOR!

***DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TRY TO PIGGYBACK INTO THE BUILDING 
BEHIND STUDENTS OR ASK STUDENTS TO LET YOU IN***
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Google Maps does NOT work very well on the Stanford campus, use this
map:  http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/map/
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Or the Searchable Stanford Campus Map:
http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/map/
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There is open parking on weekends. Park in any A or C or metered space,
no coins needed even if there's a meter there.  The Official SVFIG
Announcement Editor's Parking Lot recommendation is the lot near the
intersection of Santa Teresa St and Lomita Dr.
READ THE SIGNS!!! Some Parking places are restricted 24/7.
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