*Presentation Topic:*  "Game of Life" in pygtk
 Current series of topics is exploring various visualization libraries in
Python using "Game of Life" model

*Demonstration of UI
* Code Review/Discussion of changes to create the UI

 Adding a "Save" dialog box (pygtk)

*Open Discussion Topics:*

 Timers & Threading issues

 Memory allocation issues

 Saving State (gnome) to handle "Recently Used" files (discussed in context
of "Save" dialog box)

 Platform-independent options to "save state" in Python - options
discussed: dictionary/repr(), pickle/cPickle, xml, JSON

pickle/cPickle to store objects: ability to "walk," deep save,
serialize/de-serialize objects more reliably than in than some languages
(ex. Java)

   xml: ability to validate against schema, some characteristics of "good"
vs "bad" schema, tools (ex. xml spy editor) for generating schema/xml

   JSON (JavaScript subset): another schema that allows for swapping
languages

 Wolfram/"A New Kind of Science", Turing Machines, Quarks

 Communications: Brief discussion of mail list, meetup.com, wordpress site,
google groups. Might be good to discuss pros/cons via the List.

 Meeting Place: Key advantage at WCC is being able to get door unlocked!
Unknown what scheduling issues might exist once fall semester starts.

*Next meeting: Sept. 6, 2012 at Washtenaw Community College
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