[VPM] Fwd: 1st year RCSS anniversary meeting fast approaching

Darren Duncan darren at DarrenDuncan.net
Thu May 24 15:26:57 PDT 2007


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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:13:39 -0700
From: "Peter van Hardenberg" <pvh at pvh.ca>
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Subject: [reccompsci] 1st year anniversary meeting fast approaching
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Hi everyone,

the 1st anniversary of RCSS is almost here. I'm looking for speakers 
(as always) and recommendations for guest speakers. I've put out a 
few messages to potential guest speakers so far, but haven't 
confirmed anything yet so now is your chance. I'll be working to 
arrange guest speakers for the next few months, so feel free to 
recommend anyone.

So far, to celebrate the 1 year anniversary, I'm hoping to line up a 
really great guest speaker, bring along some snacks and drinks for 
everyone, and have an open conversation about what people would like 
to see from the group in the future. What else can we do to celebrate?

I've heard that the Victoria Linux Users Group has stopped meeting, 
as has our sibling group VOSSOC. Even the Perl Mongers haven't been 
meeting with their usual regularity. That means this group is pretty 
much the last thing left in the city, which is a damn shame. I think 
if we publicize the group a bit better, we could improve turnout and 
we would have a larger pool of people to draw from for talks. (This 
would have the excellent side effect that you'd all see fewer of my 
hand-waving chalk-board sessions.)

As for member talks for this month, the open discussions on larger 
topics of interest have worked well in the past. Does anyone have an 
subject in mind? I've been reading more collision detection papers, 
so I can talk a bit about yet another challenge of real-time physics 
simulation. Anyone else read/worked on anything neat lately?

One final note. I will be out of town doing some field work during 
the August meeting (three meetings from now) so if someone can 
volunteer to send out the usual invite emails for that month that 
would be great. I'll try to line up a guest speaker in advance before 
I leave to make things easy.

See you soon,

-pvh

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Peter van Hardenberg
Victoria, BC, Canada
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -- Kurt Vonnegut
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