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PSIG 72: Thursday, March 4th, 2004

Programming Special Interest Group
Note: An "emergency" NWoU board meeting has preempted this week's PSIG meeting. Thus, PSIG 72 is hereby bumped back a month, into March.
When:
Thursday, March 4th, 2004 @ 7pm
Where:
The NorthWest of Us' office
Schedule:
Show & Tell
We'll start out the meeting by going around the table and talking about what we're currently working on or learning about. Handouts are welcome, or bring along your PowerBook and we'll hook it up to the projector.

Book Reports
Bring along the book you're currently reading, or one of your old favorites. Hopefully the book would have some relevance to programming, but we're fairly open-minded. Just give us an overview the book's topic, and what you liked (or disliked) about it.

Topics
"I'm ashamed to live in a country where white slavers and drug smugglers go to jail, yet Forth programmers are allowed to walk the streets as free men." *

It's not illegal to learn about or program in Forth. yet. The language has perfectly legitmate uses, including Open Firmware. Lingual mastermind Bradley Slavik will give us a whirlwind tour of this noncriminal language.

Dinner
If you want pizza, bring along three dollars and we'll all chip in.

Looking for Presenters:
I'm always on the look-out for folks to want to give a talk for a meeting. The talk doesn't need to be long (10 minutes is fine if your topic is small or you just want to tease the group) and you don't need to be an expert (just tell us why you think your topic is cool or your experiences). Toss me an email and I'll assign you a chunk of time.

Monday, February 02, 2004
09:08 PM