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Contents 1 Policy 2 Fall 2006 schedule 2.1 September 14th: 0xdeadbeef 2.2 September 21st: InstallFest Thingy 2.2.1 Demos 2.2.2 OSes 2.2.3 Media 2.2.4 General 2.2.5 Games 2.2.6 Internet/Web 2.2.7 Development Tools 2.3 September 28th: Microsoft 2.4 October 5th: VoIP 2.5 October 12th: Google 2.6 October 19th: Contest info session 2.7 October 26th: Praem on Ruby on Rails 2.8 November 2nd: David Recordon 2.9 November 9th: Class Selection for Dummies 2.10 November 16th: Pandora 2.11 November 23nd: Thanksgiving 2.12 November 30th: Ziegs talks up Django 2.13 December 7th: End-of-semester movie!

Policy

If a day on this schedule isn't marked down for anything, and you'd like to invite someone to speak or present something on that day, feel free to do so - just CC officers@acm.jhu.edu so we can keep up to date. Thanks! :)

Fall 2006 schedule

Class begin September 7th and end ???.

Anyone want to build a homebrew Guitar Hero? There are two separate sides to this: software and hardware.

Maybe we could test helium's effect on voice recognition software.

September 14th: 0xdeadbeef

Our barbeque.

• Engineering quad
• Eric fireside chat
• Black pot for freshmen
• Venkatesh tempting freshmen to the dark side of EE
• Discuss Software Freedom Day?

September 21st: InstallFest Thingy

Things we will have to install

Demos

• Demo compiz + XGL

OSes

• Ubuntu

Media

• VLC
• FFDshow (Windows)
• Gimp
• InkScape

General

• PDFCreator (Windows)
• OpenOffice.org
• 7zip (Windows)
• Graph (http://www.padowan.dk/graph)

Games

• Scorched Earth 3d
• Frozen Bubble

Internet/Web

• Firefox
  • AdBlock
  • WebDeveloper Toolbar
• Gaim
• PuTTY, SCP, and SSH tricks

Development Tools

• TortoiseSVN/TortoiseCVS (Windows)
• Eclipse

September 28th: Microsoft

• Maryland 110

October 5th: VoIP

Asheesh "tenatively" scheduled M. Scott Doerrie to talk about Asterisk and VoIP, so that's probably what'll happen.

October 12th: Google

• Maryland 110

October 19th: Contest info session

• Same room as usual.
• Pie and/or cake.

• Write an email for announce@acm, then
  • forward it to houlahan@cs for ugrad@cs, grad@cs
  • submit it at http://web.jhu.edu/announcements/students/submit.html

October 26th: Praem on Ruby on Rails

• 5 PM, Shaffer 303
• Praem will give a dress rehearsal on Wednesday because Asheesh wanted a more well-organized talk

November 2nd: David Recordon

David Recordon: VeriSign Innovator, Engineer at LiveJournal, co-creator of the OpenID Protocol... and many other things as well.

November 9th: Class Selection for Dummies

Various ACM members discuss which courses are educational and which are easy GPA boosters and which are utterly worthless.

• Bring CS course requirements
• Email CS ugrads

November 16th: Pandora

• Pandorah!

November 23nd: Thanksgiving

No meeting. Anyone living in dorms can't even be on campus today, so there's very little point.

November 30th: Ziegs talks up Django

Firaxis Games postponed their talk, so we picked up Ziegs in the nick of time.

December 7th: End-of-semester movie!

• That's Asheesh's idea, anyway.
• Bad Taste