Program

Online, 4.-6. September 2020

Online registration is closed. If you are late to the party but want to participate, please drop me an email at gerald dot wodni on gmail , and I'll sign you up.

Forth standard meeting agenda

Please ignore this section if you only attend EuroForth

Tuesday, 1st September (UTC+0)

12:00 Get together - Setup your gear and smalltalk

12:20 Call to order - get ready (please be online by now)

12:30 Session 1

14:30 Bio Break

14:45 Session 2

16:30 End of main session

Wednesday, 2nd September (UTC+0)

12:00 Get together - Setup your gear and smalltalk

12:20 Call to order - get ready (please be online by now)

12:30 Session 3

14:30 Bio Break

14:45 Session 4

16:30 End of main session

Thursday, 3rd September (UTC+0)

12:00 Get together - Setup your gear and smalltalk

12:20 Call to order - get ready (please be online by now)

12:30 Session 5

14:30 Bio Break

14:45 Session 6

16:30 End of main session

EuroForth conference

on air ... these session are streamed live on twitch, recorded and shared on youtube for future generations to enjoy and to rewatch

Note: Presentation-to-session assignment in progress, let me know if you are desperately unhappy in Mattermost ;)

Format: ([lenth]min/[presentation no])

Friday, 4th September UTC(+0)

13:00 Get together - Setup your gear and smalltalk

13:50 Call to order - get ready (please be online by now)

14:00 Welcome and Introduction

14:30 Presentation Session 1 on air Nick Nelson: LXIV frenum pro Praeparans "Preparing for 64 bit Forth" (15min/5B) Ulrich Hoffmann: Through the Looking-Glass - Augmenting seedForth for Better Insight (45 min/8)

15:30 Bio Break

15:50 Presentation Session 2 on air Klaus Schleisiek: microCore Overview (45 Min/4) Bernd Paysan: Social distancing with net2o: Plans and progress on video conferencing (45min/2)

17:20 Bio Break

17:30 Presentation Session 3 on air Carsten Strotmann: Learning Forth with Exercsim.io (20min/10) Bill Ragsdale: Exploring The Wonders of D-Charts (30min/11A)

18:20 End of official part, Open Chat

Saturday, 6th September UTC(+0)

13:00 Get together - Setup your gear and smalltalk

13:50 Call to order - get ready

14:00 Presentation Session 4 on air Andrew Read: Smart Stacks in VHDL (30/8) Philip Zembrod: cc64 - a Small C compiler written in Forth (30min/6) Stephen Pelc: Experience with dual words and recognisers (30/7B)

15:30 Bio Break

15:45 Get ready for Virtual Excursion

15:50 Virtual Excursion: introduce us to your home-town in 1minute with 3-5 pictures on air

16:30 Presentation Session 5 on air Stephen Pelc: VFX Forth 64 for MacOS and Linux (30/7A) Gerald Wodni: VFX UI5 - Welcome to the Cluster (30min/3)

17:30 Cooking/Ordering formal Dinner

18:00 Formal dinner with open chat

Sunday, 6th September UTC(+0)

13:00 Get together - Setup your gear and smalltalk

13:50 Call to order - get ready

14:00 Presentation Session 6 on air Anton Ertl: Forth IDEs (30min/1B) Anton Ertl: Integrating wordlists and regognizers (30min/1A) Nick Nelson: Extending the VALUE concept (30min/5A)

15:30 Bio Break

15:45 Presentation Session 7: Impromptu Talks! on air Bill Ragsdale: Forth In China 1984 (30min/11B) Nick Nelson: Short talk 2 "A radical Forth alternative to the Windows registry" (15min/5C) Klaus Schleisiek: Poor man's recognizer (15min) (16:45) Your Impromptu Talk? Announce now on in the chat!

17:30 End of EuroForth 2020

Timezones

For your convenience the starting times converted to your location, see Timezone calculator for more.

Timezone EuroForth Forth200x ---------------------------------------------- UTC 13:00 UTC 12:00 UTC Los Angeles 06:00 PDT 05:00 PDT New York 09:00 EDT 08:00 EDT London 14:00 BST 13:00 BST Vienna, Berlin, Rome 15:00 CEST 14:00 CEST Cape Town 15:00 SAST 14:00 SAST Hongkong 21:00 HKT 20:00 HKT Tokio 22:00 JST 21:00 JST

Hardware requirements

The following hardware is required:

A headset or another setup which ensures no echoing is received from your end.

You cannot attend the conference with a built-in microphone. If you cannot get a headset and cause interference, you will be muted and will be limited to replying by text.

The following hardware is strongly recommended:

A webcam which points at your face

A lamp which illuminates your face.

If there is a wall behind your monitor consider bouncing light of it with a lamp, so we can see your lovely face. Alternatively shine light onto you from an angle.

Software requirements

TL;DR: get Firefox, sign up at the link you will be getting via email on the 27th August.

The following software is required:

Fairly recent Firefox browser (please update when possible)

The following software is strongly recommended as a fallback option:

Fairly recent Chromium based browser (please update when possible)

Zoom Client

We will be using the web-based chat-application Mattermost - no installation required, hosted by Forth Committee Members to help privacy concerns. You will receive a signup link after the registration closes. All communication is within this chat-application, we ask you to sign in within the Get together timeframe.

For the video conferences themselfes we will be using BigBlueButton hosted by senfcall.de. Links to the conference rooms will be provided in chat-application Mattermost. As this EuroForth is free of charge, we ask you to consider donating to senfcall after the conference.

If this should fail we will fall back to Zoom. Consider installing their client beforehand.

Thanks to everybody who has been testing these systems with us, we are not considering any more alternatives at this time.

Conference Proceedings

Proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef20/papers/

Videos: https://wiki.forth-ev.de/doku.php/events:ef2020:start

CfP: http://www.euroforth.org/ef20/cfp.html

Presentations