meet up

[Patrick Crosby]

Chicagolangers,

Let's try to do another meet up! Next week? Anyone want to suggest a location?

Patrick

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[Rohit Sankaran]

Hi Patrick,

I'm interested in a meetup. How about Tuesday or Wednesday after work, at the Farmhouse (http://farmhousechicago.com/)?

Cheers,

-rohit

[Prof Braino]

I'm interested. I'm way out in Wheeling (past O'hare), so getting
down to the city might be a challenge.

Doug

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[Benjamin Johnson]

I've never been to any of these, and I'm not well versed at Go. Having
said that, I'm extremely excited about Go (hopefully for replacing my
c++/python usage).

I'll be meeting up with another group at 8 pm on Tuesday, so I might be
able to make it if this group decides to meet up earlier that night.

See ya,

Ben

[Patrick Crosby]

Wednesday works best for me, around 7 or 7:30. Location irrelevant as long as it is in the city limits.

[Prof Braino]

So around 7:00-7:30 Wednesday at Farmhouse? I'll shoot for that time,
but might be a bit late depending on traffic.

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[Patrick Crosby]

Yeah, let's do it Wednseday @ Farmhouse based on Rohit's suggestion.
So we have myself, Rohit, and Doug. Who else can make it?

[Prof Braino]

Ben please show up as your python/C++ experience will be germane to
the discussion.

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[Benjamin Johnson]

I'll see what I can do. I live out in the suburbs so it takes up a
large chunk of time to get into the city.

Do you guys sit in a particular spot?

Ben

[Benjamin Johnson]

I think I'll make it -- might bring another guy interested in Go as well.

Cheers,

Ben

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Benjamin Johnson

[Rohit Sankaran]

Nice, I think a couple of my co-workers might be joining in as well. See you guys then!

[Patrick Crosby]

Never been there before...Rohit, any info on Farmhouse?

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Benjamin Johnson

[Jim Campbell]

Hi - I am leaning towards attending, but am quite new to Go, so am a bit wary about not being able to contribute much to the group at this time. 

For my day job I'm an HR Systems Administrator at a hospital. There I mostly use SQL. I also contribute documentation to GNOME (I'm the gedit docs maintainer).  When I was using Ubuntu I was one of the major contributors to their docs, doing a lot to shape their new Help layout. Neither of these areas of expertise scream, "You should use Go," (although I am glad to see some people working on go-gtk and go-gtk3 bindings), but I see Go as a possibly-useful language in both environments. While I think I have reasonable programming aspirations, I am not currently any kind of highly-skilled developer.

As for Farmhouse - it seems like a sit-down sort of place. What do people have in mind for talking about there? I know this group is new, but do people typically bring laptops and show off projects or code?

Regards,

Jim

[Lukins]

I should be able to make it. Coming down as well from the north burbs.

Bobby

On Monday, July 2, 2012 9:26:17 AM UTC-5, patrickxb wrote:

[John Dittmar]

So this Wednesday?   Farmhouse?  7:30?

[Patrick Crosby]

Yes. 7, 7:30.

No laptops/code this time. Just a get together of people interested
in Go. It sounds like we have a lot more people than last time, so if
there is enough interest we can do different things at future meetings
like talks, hack sessions, etc.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:47 AM, John Dittmar <confunc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So this Wednesday? Farmhouse? 7:30?

[Rohit Sankaran]

Farmhouse has a nice area upstairs that we could probably use, pull together some chairs etc. They have a decent sized table downstairs as well. There is a bar on both levels, so beer etc. will not be an issue.

See you then!

[Patrick Crosby]

I'm on the el, should be there soon. If anyone is there already, email where you're at inside so we can find each other. 

Thanks!

[Benjamin Johnson]

Ill be there in 5 tov 10

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[Patrick Crosby]

Thanks everyone for coming out...it was a great turnout! 350%
improvement over last time...

[Prof Braino]

Hey guys!

Overcome by events here. What'd you discover?

Since I couldn't present in person, here's what I have intended to show:

My project interfaces micro controllers to the workstation. We
implemented something similar to CSP channels on the micro, which is
similar to Go-channels on the PC. They talk, its pretty much
transparent, now the PC can think it has tons of micro controller
services (peripherals, servos and actuators, sensors, local logging
and prefiltering) and the micro can think it has workstation services
(internet access, fancy display, storage, number crunching database
etc).

We have also implemented automated testing of the micro controller
software product via scripting managed by the GO application on the
workstation.

The team has about ten people around the world, no two are in the same
city (as far as I know).

The main project is a version of the forth language on the parallax
propeller micro controller.

http://code.google.com/p/propforth/

The software is free and open source.

micro controller package:
http://code.google.com/p/propforth/downloads/detail?name=Propforth-V5.03-20120505.zip&can=2&q=
PC terminal application
http://code.google.com/p/propforth/downloads/detail?name=20120420mygo.zip&can=2&q=

This is in its infancy, but its working and enjoying continuous
development for the past several years.
We intend to use the micro controller for interfacing to sensors and
actuators, and pre filtering the data streams, for robotic
applications; and using the PC for long term data processing and
storage, remote interface, and infrastructure support.

Cheers!

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Prof.Braino

[Benjamin Johnson]

You missed a good meeting!

We agreed to keep it a little less formal but to start having some
presentations over the next few months. We mostly talked about what
excites us about Go and whether or not it is "catching on", and the
majority of the evening was simply getting to know one another.

Thanks for the great email -- exciting work for sure.