BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20121104T020000 RDATE:20121104T020000 RDATE:20131103T020000 RDATE:20141102T020000 RDATE:20151101T020000 RDATE:20161106T020000 RDATE:20171105T020000 RDATE:20181104T020000 RDATE:20191103T020000 RDATE:20201101T020000 RDATE:20211107T020000 RDATE:20221106T020000 RDATE:20231105T020000 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20130310T020000 RDATE:20130310T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 RDATE:20150308T020000 RDATE:20160313T020000 RDATE:20170312T020000 RDATE:20180311T020000 RDATE:20190310T020000 RDATE:20200308T020000 RDATE:20210314T020000 RDATE:20220313T020000 RDATE:20230312T020000 RDATE:20240310T020000 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130107T222958Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130226T170000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130226T090000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130107T222958Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130107T222958Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463342 DESCRIPTION:Only 20 spots so sign up today! \;\n---------------------- ------------------------------ \;\nSomeone get the Fabreeze\, because your idea STINKS! \;\n \;\nA softer way of putting that is your i dea has a hole in it somewhere. You should identify the holes in the boa t before launching your transatlantic journey. \;\n \;\nForget yo ur solution and run your first experiment by talking to customers and va lidating that they have the problem you think they have. \;\n \;\ nLearn the importance of Customer Development and why talking to custome rs is step one for any new idea\, product\, or service. After a brief in tro to Lean and my personal story\, we will set up your first problem/cu stomer statement and conduct your first experiment using the Validation Board. Part of this class will be "\;out of the building"\; as we do in our Lean workshops. \;\n \;\nWe will cover the followi ng in the this session. \;\n- Brief into to Lean and why it is valuab le \;\n- Complete run-through of Validation Board (as this will be th e basis of all experiments) \;\n- How to turn assumptions into experi ments \;\n- Types of minimal viable products to build \;\n- What f eatures do my customers want (setting up experiments for team) \;\n- Customer development tactics and exercises to implement \;\n- Case st udy of real life implementation and business model \;\n \;\n------ -------------------------------------------------- \;\n \;\nAbout Adam Berk \;\nEntrepreneurial Science\, Lean Startup Machine \;\n& #13\;\nI am the Global Director of Entrepreneurial Science at Lean Start up Machine. I have the great pleasure of travelling around the world to teach entrepreneurs about Lean methodologies. I have helped over 100 tea ms of entrepreneurs in Istanbul\, Silicon Valley\, NYC\, Seattle\, Vanco uver\, Montreal\, and at The University of Florida\, Microsoft\, AOL\, N ewsInternational\, etc. \;\n \;\nStanding on the shoulders of gian ts like Eric Ries\, Steve Blank\, Patrick Vlaskovits and others\, we hav e distilled the Lean methodology into actionable\, sequential steps. I r eally enjoy teaching early stage companies how to identify their riskies t assumptions and test them using our own proprietary tool\, the Validat ion Board. I wish I could have taken this class when I built my first st artup\, neighborrow.com and I used the methods I teach in my current app for wedding photos - where I validated the solution and had paying cust omers before I wrote a line of code. \;\n \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: l ean\, lean startup\, product\, customer development\, validation\n\nImpo rted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250463342 URL:http://skl.sh/R9KnDX SUMMARY:Startup 001: Your first experiment LOCATION:NedSpace on 5th: 1400 SW 5th\, 3rd floor\, Portland OR 97201 us SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141103T220133Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141111T120000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141111T110000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141103T220133Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141103T220133Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250467279 DESCRIPTION:abstract: \;\nRead-copy update (RCU) is a synchronization mechanism that is sometimes used as an alternative to reader-writer lock ing (among other things) that was added to the Linux kernel in 2002. A s imilar mechanism was added to Sequent’s DYNIX/ptx parallel UNIX kernel i n 1993\, and antecedents go back to at least 1980. Although a fully func tional textbook implementation of RCU comprises only about 20 lines of c ode\, the Linux-kernel implementation comprises more than 15\,000 lines of code due to harsh requirements involving performance\, scalability\, energy efficiency\, real-time response\, memory footprint\, module unloa ding\, hotplugging of CPUs\, and software-engineering considerations. 3\;\n \;\nTherefore\, a key Linux-kernel RCU challenge is validation and verification. To this end\, more than 2500 lines of the current Linu x-kernel implementation do torture testing. However\, there are now more than one billion devices running Linux\, so that an RCU bug that manife sted on average once every million years of machine time would manifest about three times every day across the installed base. Furthermore\, the combination of Internet of Things and Josh Triplett’s Linux Kernel Tini fication project is likely to significantly increase the number of runni ng instances. \;\n \;\nI write and run rcutorture tests myself\, a nd I like to think that my 20 years of parallel-code testing experience allows me to meet this validation challenge\, but a simple analysis sugg ests a gap of several orders of magnitude. Additional validation and ver ification techniques are thus called for. This talk gives a brief overvi ew of RCU and describes my adventures evaluating various verification te chniques. \;\n \;\nbio: \;\nPaul E. McKenney has been coding fo r almost four decades\, more than half of that on parallel hardware\, wh ere his work has earned him a reputation among some as a flaming heretic . Over the past decade\, Paul has been an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Linux Technology Center. Paul maintains the RCU implementation w ithin the Linux kernel\, where the variety of workloads present highly e ntertaining performance\, scalability\, real-time response\, and energy- efficiency challenges. Prior to that\, he worked on the DYNIX/ptx kernel at Sequent\, and prior to that on packet-radio and Internet protocols ( but long before it was polite to mention Internet at cocktail parties)\, system administration\, business applications\, and real-time systems. He has a BS in Computer Science and another in Mechanical Engineering al ong with an MS in Computer Science\, all from Oregon State University. H e also has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from OGI/OHSU. He has more than 100 publications and more than 50 patents. His hobbies in clude what passes for running at his age along with the usual house-wife -and-kids habit.\n\nTags: Galois tech talk\, linux\, read-copy update\, verification\, validation\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/ 1250467279 URL:http://galois.com/blog/2014/11/tech-talk-read-copy-update-rcu-validat ion-verification-linux/ SUMMARY:Galois tech talk: Read-copy update (RCU) validation and verificat ion for Linux LOCATION:Galois Inc: 421 Sw 6th Ave Ste 300\, Portland OR 97204 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250512T001558Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250515T100000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250515T080000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250512T001558Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250512T001558Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250482022 DESCRIPTION:When an entrepreneur has an idea for a startup\, they often w ant to know: How good of a startup idea is this\, really? \;\n \;\ n​In other words: How much should time and money should I invest in my s tartup idea? \;\n \;\nThis is where Nascent Startups 🪺 comes in.&# 13\;\n \;\n​Nascent Startups methodology empowers early-stage founder s (those still in the idea/validation phase with no customers) to quanti tatively assess the strength of their startup idea in dollars ($). Nasce nt methodology enables entrepreneurs with minimal data to make faster\, more confident decisions about the most important aspect of their startu p idea: how much of their time\, money and effort to invest. ​ \;\n&# 13\;\n​In this 2-hour interactive webinar\, you’ll walk through a case s tudy where a founder applied Nascent methodology and came to a decision by investing just 10 days and $0. \;\n \;\n​What past participants are saying: \;\n​“I love how applicable so many of the frameworks ar e. Everyone claims to have a one-size-fits-all solution—Nascent gives yo u Legos instead.” \;\n— Program Coordinator at an incubator \;\n&# 13\;\n​“I thought that was an awesome presentation. I’ve attended every single workshop [at this startup incubator] since the beginning of last year. I think this is the best one.” \;\n— Founder of a medical educa tion startup \;\n \;\n​“I used the tools from this workshop to bui ld a money-saving proposal to the NIH. I’m using the Quantified Pain His togram for my patient profile—it's helping me translate ideas into a pro posal that I can actually sell.” \;\n— PhD Candidate &\; Medical D octor \;\n \;\n​“Mike\, your workshop was amazing. I was so excite d for it to continue.” \;\n— Founder at a sports tech startup\n\nTags : startups\, Idea Stage\, entrepreneurship\, founder\, validation\n\nImp orted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482022 URL:https://lu.ma/3xqj9x2p SUMMARY:How to measure an idea for a startup using a novel quantitative\, visual methodology LOCATION:Webinar: false SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR