[svfig-announce] Meeting Saturday, October 23, 2020

[Kevin Appert]

--- SVFIG Meeting, Fourth Saturday, October 23, 2010 ---
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*** MEETING PLACE SAME AS LAST MONTH ***
The meeting will be held in Building 550 (aka Peterson Building)
most likely on the first floor. Directions and map links are below.

*** 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".
If there isn't someone from SVFIG at the door to let you in, call the
cell phone number on the sign.

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

***WIFI AVAILABLE***
To use Wifi, you will need a guest account.   If you didn't have a guest 
account last month and you want to use Wifi, then email Dave Jaffe at: 
<dljaffe at stanford.edu>
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AGENDA
For late-breaking updates, check the web site:
<<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html>>>

At each lull in the action, between talks or before breaks we will be
inviting folks to give short 5-10 minute 'quickies'.  If you'd like to
tell us about something, let Kevin know at the meeting and we'll reserve
the time for you or take your chances that nobody else will grab the slot.

09:50 --- Coffee and a Chat

10:00 --- eForth for eP32 - CH Ting
"eP32 is a Forth engine, but it still needs a Forth operating system to 
interact with the user. This eForth implementation returns to the 
original simplistic design, but leaves room for the user to make the 
best use of the underlying CPU. I will discuss the metacompiler, eP32 
assembler, kernel, interpreter, compiler, tools, and simulator in this 
eForth suite."


11:35 --- Quickie

11:45 --- LUNCH
      We will walk to The Treehouse by Tressider Union.
Here is a review:
      <<< http://collegerestaurant.net/default.aspx>>>
Here is the menu:
<<http://library.stanford.edu/depts/physics/related/treehousemenu.html>>


13:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, DISCUSSION --- All Assembled
This month we'll go around the room and each introduce ourselves.  If 
you're willing, tell us how you got started with Forth.

13:30 --- FORTH MEETS SMALLTALK --- Doug Hoffman
Doug will give us a look at his ANS Forth object extension package. 
He'll present via Skype.
See Doug's bio here: http://www.forth.org/whoswho.html#doughoffman

14:30 --- Break

14:44 --- A LOGICAL PIANO KEYBOARD IN F# --- CH Ting
Piano keyboards were designed incorrectly from the very beginning. 
Assigning white and black keys should have done logically, not 
physically.  Ting will show us how piano keyboards should be designed. 
In F#, all Windows GDI functions are accessible and one can build custom 
graphical user interface for specific applications.  Ting will 
demonstrate how to draw a keyboard on screen and dynamically change its 
design when shifting keys.

15:21 --- Gforth on eCos --- John Harbold
      John will give a give an update on his effort to port Gforth
to the eCos platform.  He has now gotten Redboot to boot under
GRUB and may have Gforth built to run under eCOS and integrated
into Redboot by meeting time.
      eCos is an embedded configurable operating system which is
open source, POSIX-compliant, real-time, and multi-threaded with
your choice of scheduler.http://ecos.sourceware.org/about.html
      RedBoot is a complete bootstrap environment for embedded
systems. Based on the eCos Hardware Abstraction Layer, RedBoot inherits 
the eCos qualities of reliability, compactness, configurability, and 
portability.  http://sourceware.org/redboot/

15:55 --- Clean up before you go!

16:00 --- Ok, now you can go.

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Please note that the times listed above are precise but not necessarily 
accurate.  We might go a little long or short on any agenda item or 
shuffle things on the fly with abandon.  If you're desperate to see 
something at a particular time, please let us know!  Remember that there 
are bugs in any non-trivial SVFIG meeting announcement.  Mistakes were 
made and we're not to proud to admit it.
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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
fine with me.

No Newsgroup posts or other media distribution please!
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There is NO Public Wireless Internet access at Stanford.
Email Dave Jaffe <dljaffe at stanford.edu> to request a one day
guest account if you didn't have one last month.
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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Coming to SVFIG:
* FORTH DAY in November 2010!

* Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING!

* Mitch Bradley's Forth in C (somebody needs to volunteer)

* Blast from the past - a discussion of John James' CRC from his Xmodem
implementation as enunciated in "Forth Dimensions".

* Furthering the Cause of Forth - John Rible
IntellaSys has imploded, or something.  We'd be pleased to hear about
John's new outreach project when formulated.

* Engineering TV
http://engineeringtv.com/
Fifty engineering topic channels. Four new episodes per week.
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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.

Preliminary agenda along with schedule updates and
discussion may frequently be found on the SVFIG email list.
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NAVIGATIONAL ADVICE

Enter the building from the Panama Mall side. (In the event that the 
building door is locked, there will either be someone on duty to let you 
in or a cellphone number to call.)
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***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 Teresa St and Lomita Dr.
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