KYOSS Meeting on Sep 13rd

[Liang Yan]

Good morning, folks.

Our monthly meetup is on Wednesday this week, feel free to drop a topic you are interested in.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C8C-cUTHBSLyj_KA0XWXe-D6PL4nO2F_xomaEekFxjU/

Current topic:

Empire Nvidia and its challengers: The alternatives for ML

If you haven't signed up on the Meetup link, please do so for our food preparation.

https://www.meetup.com/louisvilleopensourceprogramming/events/295372160

We are excited to meet you in person.

Regards,

Liang

[Hostile Fork]

Hello KYOSS!

After a year hanging around all over Louisville, I'll be moving back to Florida at the end of September... :-(

Before I go, I'd like to use my last chance to present to the group some things about Rebol, which is an open source project I've been involved with for over a decade (!)

Rebol is an unusual Lisp/Forth-inspired language that originated from the 90's Commodore Amiga subculture.  It emerged around the same time as Tcl/Tk, and was applied toward similar problems.  But there's more to it than meets the eye!

Compared to a "popular" language, only a few people are involved.  But we have some videos up from a conference in 2019, so you can get a sense of some of the people who use it:

  http://2019.reb4.me/talks

For my presentation, I want to give a little technical intro to the language, and what I think is notable about it.  But since this is specifically an open-source audience, I want to spend some time talking about the "people"-challenges that were involved.  There was a long battle to convince a proprietary tool to become open source, followed by disappointment at seeing it become the most fragmented project I've ever encountered!  I think I have some insights about what worked and what didn't, and what part of that is my fault.  :-)

Best,

--Brian

http://hostilefork.com

[William Lindley]

Excellent presentation. 

Your closest FOSS group will be JaxLUG, in Jacksonville.  I attended for several years whilst I was there 2013-2016.  Good folks!

• http://www.jaxlug.net/
  
• https://groups.google.com/g/jaxlug

See you whenever you're back in town,

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