Join us on Zoom or in person at Stanford for our annual Forth Day!
We'll have the opportunity to meet in person enjoy lunch together.
Mask wearing in the Peterson Building is strongly encouraged.

For maps and parking info, go here:
http://forth.org/svfig/03-2020.html

If you're coming in person, please contact Kevin Appert through email or Meetup message or note it on your RSVP!

• If you can't make it in person, we'll be Zooming live!
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# LINK AND PASSWORD:

# We'll be using this one link and password every month going forward:

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81763537887

Meeting ID: 817 6353 7887

Passcode: FIG

*** PLEASE NOTE 09:00 AM (Pacific Standard Time) START TIME
***All durations and descriptions are approximate or perhaps entirely inconsistent with what will eventually transpire.
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# AGENDA

# Ceremonial Starting of the Recorder

# There will be a brief observance of the beginning of the monthly recording of the Zoom session.

09:00 WELCOME --- Kevin Appert, Program Chairman and Master of Ceremonies

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Meetup fee for $98.94, contributions welcome.
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09:10 Exploring Win32Forth With Gun and Camera --- Bill Ragsdale
Bill will cover the innovative features of Win32Forth (now as well as 20 years ago!!!) and its integration into his "Win32Forth User Guide".
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09:30 Fireside Chat --- Chuck Moore
It's a Forth Day tradition!
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10:10 GreenArrays Update --- Greg Bailey, GreenArrays, Inc.
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10:30 Photo Op and Bathroom Break
Traditional group photo and maybe screen shots of the zoomers.
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10:40 μEforth Graphics and Sound on the Web --- Brad Nelson
Imagery and music come to μEforth on the Web! Learn how complex interactive pictures can be built from a simple but powerful vocabulary.
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11:10 Expanded Matrices In Forth, with Format Schemas --- Bill Ragsdale
“I am planning to present the expansion of my matrix package for mixed data by column using a matrix defining schema (data dictionary). Leading to math/access operators selected by their operand format. Overloaded operators.”
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11:35 The Forth2020 Group --- Peter Forth
“I can explain a little bit of the work the Forth2020 community is doing on the different platforms, and how our members help that Forth programming stays alive and is mentioned as a valid solution in 2020.”
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11:45 Lunch
Lunch will last one hour, the Zoom Room will remain open for socializing and discussion.
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12:45 Less is Mo(o)re: Beyond FORTH --- Liang Ng and Demitri Peynado
“Since its inception in 1968, FORTH has been taken up by a great variety of programmers and engineers, applied to projects from microprocessor to mobile device applications. We believe FORTH, if simplified, has the potential to be as popular as Python, Javascript or similar programming languages, so we implemented a “light” variant of FORTH, retaining its reverse polish notation syntax, stack and colon definition, while leaving out the bulk of standard FORTH vocabulary as optional extensions. We call our implementation Phoscript, where “phos” is “light” in Greek.”
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13:15 The Latest from FORTH, Inc. --- Leon Wagner
“1) SwiftForth x64 for Windows, Linux, and macOS. I’ll discuss the organization and some of the porting issues I encountered. There are some not so obvious lessons to be learned about portability.”
“2) SwiftX for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core M0+ microcontroller.”
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13:40 The CORE I Project--- Don Golding and Demitri Peynado
Don writes: “Demitri and I will be giving an update to the CORE I project. Demitri will speak about the most important aspect of CORE I, the code. I will follow up with the first CORE I dev board. It incorporates an esp32 processor which we can run Brad's Forth on as a co-processor with full WIFI and Bluetooth.
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14:30 4th.CoSy Update --- Bob Armstrong
CoSy is Bob's APL/K-level computational daytimer/notekeeping environment. Bob will give us a quick update on CoSy's progress.
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14:45 Adjorn
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Local in-person participants will be dining at a local eatery.

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Send messages through Meetup-message, email, semaphore, or aldis lamp.
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Zoom meetings are recorded and presented on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SiliconValleyForthInterestGroup