Portland State University Engineering Building

Would you like to get involved in helping to plan ChickTech's first event?

At this meeting, we'll be doing a deep-dive into the event schedule and we'll update everyone on the status of workshops.

We're going to get food (no-host: please bring cash for your share).

To RSVP and share your food preferences, please fill out this form: http://bit.ly/chicktechfood

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/325136667573694/

We have a great Innovation Talk coming up on Friday.

Herb Sorensen, who has been a "Fast Company's Innovator of the Year" will be giving a talk on the role of technology in driving innovation in retailing. Find out how Walmart, Amazon, Apple, and Google have been, and continue to be, at the forefront of the industry, and how the new players are transforming the industry.

3pm - Friday - 2/17/12 - EB102 - coffee and dessert following!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

We have a great Innovation Talk coming up on Friday.

Herb Sorensen, who has been a "Fast Company's Innovator of the Year" will be giving a talk on the role of technology in driving innovation in retailing. Find out how Walmart, Amazon, Apple, and Google have been, and continue to be, at the forefront of the industry, and how the new players are transforming the industry.

3pm - Friday - 2/17/12 - EB102 - coffee and dessert following!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Agenda currently is:

9:30am Introductions and unconference planning 10am-4pm Hacking and unconference sessions 4pm - Wrapup session 5pm -> ? Evening hacking and party

Selena Deckelmann (selenamarie@gmail.com) is organizing.

The event will be in the Engineering Building at PSU, and open to the public.

We will have 5-6 rooms in the engineering building reserved, plus the atrium.

One room will be devoted to a Civic Hackathon. Below is the Etherpad for helping organize it and posting projects to hack on: http://etherpad.opensourcebridge.org/pdx11hackathon-april2

Tropo is sponsoring lunch.

We are currently seeking sponsors for help with morning coffee, afternoon coffee and evening snacks.

Teaser for the April 1-2 PDX11 event and hackathon. More details soon!

Selena Deckelmann (selenamarie@gmail.com) is organizing.

We will be having an evening meetup with beer and short presentations from the PDX11 groups. This will be an opportunity to meet, discuss plans for Saturday's hackathon, hear from leaders in the PDX11 community and have a beer.

Official event page is: http://pdx11.org/node/2919

We are currently seeking sponsors for help with food and drink.

Also, so that we can plan for food and drink, please RSVP at: http://pdx11unconference.eventbrite.com/

Thanks!

ABOUT: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Scala, and others. The group meets regularly and provides presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts. The meetings are usually on the second Monday of the month.

VENUE: We're meeting in the PSU Engineering Building, 4th floor conference room. Any changes to plan will be listed on a sign taped to the main door. The building is at 1930 SW Fourth, Portland, Oregon 97201. It's on the right side of a large concrete courtyard. Here's a photo of the building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_state_university_EB.jpg

Monthly meeting of PARTS, the Portland Area Robotics Society.

Kirk Harr will speak on "LANs, iptables, routing, and more"

Presentation will be "Introduction to OpenSource ERP using xTuple products" by John Mertlich

Gabrielle Roth and Selena Deckelmann will be discussing ways to build and maintain Open Source Communities. Their emphasis will be in building real in-person communities rather than virtual on-line type communities.

Gabriell and Selena recently presented "Running a Successful User Group" at OSCON 2008, see notes at http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/30268

The meeting will be in Room FAB 86-01 of The Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science Building at Portland State University. This building, nicknamed The New Engineering Building, is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. See location H-10 on the map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

We are having a special summer colloquium presentation by Jonathan Aldrich of CMU on Tuesday, August 12, at 10:30am. Title and abstract below.

The talk will be in the Dean's Conference room (EB 500) in the Engineering Building at Portland State University.

Jim Hook (hook at cs dot pdx dot edu) is acting as host.

TITLE: Typestate Verification for Aliased Objects using Assume-Guarantee Permissions

ABSTRACT: Object-oriented libraries often define usage protocols that clients must follow in order for the system to work properly. Typestates use state machines to specify these protocols, but previous protocol verification systems have significant practical problems in their precision, scaleability, easy of use, and applicability to standard coding styles and idioms.

We are exploring a new approach to verifying typestate using assume- guarantee permissions. These permissions track not only the state of an object, but an abstraction of what operations other aliases might perform on the object. Developers annotate their code with state and permission information, which can be automatically and soundly checked for consistency. Our approach is fully modular, yet allows substantial reasoning about objects even when they are aliased by multiple clients. We will describe novel approaches for reasoning about inheritance and concurrency, and show case studies verifying code (and finding one defect) in well-tested Java standard library code.

This is joint work with Kevin Bierhoff and Nels Beckman.

LOCATION

Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science Building, Room FAB 86-01 (This is in the basement.) The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

PRESENTATION

Eric Wilhelm -- Stupid USB Keyboard Tricks: Reading magstripes, barcodes, 10-key pads, and keyboards with libusb.

An overview of libusb, how usb keyboards (and keyboard-like devices) are handled by Linux and X, and how they can be disconnected from the main input driver for use and abuse by user-space code.

This technology has useful applications such as connecting USB credit-card and barcode readers to point-of-sale software independently from the keyboard focus or keymap. It also allows silly things like multi-player text editors or a 105-command program launcher. Or you could just use it to change songs in xmms.

Code will shown in small doses of Perl and C. Hands-on demonstrations will be included as time allows.

Caution: presentation may result in a desire to attach one or more additional devices to your computer.

AGENDA

7:00 - 7:30 Business We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, etc.

7:30 - 8:30 Presentation

See above

9:00 - ... Beer Jax Bar And Restaurant 826 SW 2nd Avenue Portland (Note: We no longer use the Lucky Lab.)