Speakers Needed!!
October Zoom Meeting!

go to: forth.org/zoom for the SVFIG Zoom Meeting
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Fourth Saturday of October, 2026.
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CLICK “Read more” below to see the entire announcement.
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**The Zoom Room is open 24-7, stop by and give it a try!
**If Forth.org is down, you can go to the Zoom room via this direct link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89716879946?pwd=Umx2WlNqU0pjbFplb3M1YS81WUU4dz09
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There will be NO IN-PERSON meeting at Stanford! Zoom only!
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*** PLEASE NOTE 09:30 AM (Pacific Daylight SavingsTime) START TIME
To determine your offset, go to Google and ask "what time is it in Palo Alto, California, USA?"
***All duration and descriptions are approximate or perhaps entirely inconsistent with what will eventually transpire.***
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# AGENDA
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Festive Starting of the Recorder
There will be a brief joyful interlude to mark the beginning of the monthly recording of the Zoom session. Recordings will be posted to the SVFIG YouTube channel!
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Announcements
Forth Day is coming up!
Ting's stuff, storage books, what to do with old computers?
What are you working on?
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APL BUG Mailing List --- Curtis A. Jones
There's a whole community out there!
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Screen Shot --- Everyone
We'll pause to record the roster for posterity. If you're on the lam, turn off your camera or log out for two minutes. Remember that the whole meeting is recorded for YouTube.
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Minimised Hash Code for Maximising 3D Collaborative World Building with Forth Derived Metaprogramming Shell --- Liang Ng
Consistent with the law of “less is more”, we demonstrate how a minimised hash code derived from the hash of public key plus arbitrary strings representing 3D objects such as GLTF can become a unifying representation for various object formats, with operations expressed in Phoscript, a metaprogramming shell language derived from Forth.
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Forth Day Talks --- Everybody
We'll go around the Zoom-Room and ask for presenters for Forth Day. Could somebody contact Peter Forth or someone from the Facebook Group? Anybody got a good lead on EuroFORML?
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Backfill --- Everybody
We'll go around the room and discuss stuff. Question of the day: “What's your favorite page on the website?”
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CoSy Update --- Bob Armstrong
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Radio Direction Finding in Forth --- Andy Korsak KR6DD (Tentative, at some random time)
“It took a few years of rework and debugging, but now I have a working program to generate "perfect test files" that are raw S16LE 48kbps stereo data files for my RPiDDFengine to read simulated bearings data when in recorded data playback mode. I am now checking out RPiDDFengine running in live data mode.”
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Random Access, Round Table, Replays, Ad Hoc
Forth Day after-action review.
What was your first Forth? On what platform?
Trade shows, public outreach.
Elevator pitch for Forth / printing a bookmark list of resources?
Meeting locations from history, Chabot, ABI, Dyson Wedge, Cogswell, …? We need a list!
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ADJOURNMENT
The recording will be stopped without festivities. Good fellowship and conversation can continue in our tastefully furnished Zoom Room.
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Coming next month:
>Forth Day!
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Message Kevin Appert for more info! Send messages through Meetup-message, email, etc.
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Zoom meetings are recorded and presented on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SiliconValleyForthInterestGroup
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