[mdlug] Meeting Location, Bank Account, scifi

[Arthur Dries]

 blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; }  I've seen a LOT of things lately that seem to be past sci-fi becoming bleeding edge comp-sci.
Talking to computers: aka Siri
Computer based agents: aka Alexa
Advanced search: IBM Watson
I propose a topic on how this has happened


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On Saturday, November 12, 2016, 4:57 PM, gib at juno.com <gib at juno.com> wrote:

We had a difficult time getting a meeting room at the library today.  Eventually, we got into one.

This led to a long discussion about some of the club practices.

Please fee free to reply with your thoughts on any of these topics:

We have a not for profit status 501C3PO (or something like that).  We've seen no advantages to keeping this.  So, the general conciseness in the meeting was to let this lapse.

We have a bank account with very little money and no activity.  We have decided to close the account.

We have been meeting in a library for free.  We attempted to think of alternatives but we didn't come up with a solution that we could be sure of.  We are open to further discussion on this. Do we want to pay for a space?  Do people feel they would donate money to secure a location that we could depend on?

Expanding membership was a topic that basically revolves around finding ways to spread the word.

Kevin O'Brian offered to reschedule his presentation since we had difficulty getting the room.  Dr. Bob has offered to do a presentation in December.  So, we need to determine the schedule for these two presentations.

We had a long exchange about how to use certificates.

A few topics about science fiction  . . .
The new Star Trek movie Rouge One comes out December 16. We plan to have a group go to see the movie together.  Join in. Let the force  . . .

The movie called: "Arrival" just came out.  Part of the movie dealt with using language to understand things.  Language wires your brain to mold your comprehension.  Are we seeing the issues we have from a perspective that relates to the way we were taught to communicate?
 
  
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