[BLU/Officers] July agenda

[Kurt Keville]

This is the best I can come up with...  following in the spirit of our
other joint meetings

You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tune a Convolutional Neural Network

Information updates in the areas of HPC, Supercomputing, and Autonomous
Vehicles

7:00 - 7:45PM Eliot from Microway presents event updates
7:45 - 8:00PM Kurt from MIT presents UAV Updates
8:00 - 8:30PM BU students present on Student Cluster Competition
8:30 Open

Zoom link is
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85075254996?pwd=cU0xenpiQXRadEVZbEFMSkVjdktkUT09

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 9:14 PM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds great, Kurt! Can I get a list of already confirmed speakers and
> topic details for the BLU calendar? We can add more as additional
> confirmations are made.
>
> I've been using Zoom Meet for my Toastmasters club, and we've had no
> issues with it. Are you and/or Eliot using the Enterprise tier? I notice on
> the pricing page that the "Basic" (free) tier of Zoom Meet has a 40-minute
> maximum length for meetings.
>
> I'd like to make sure we record the meeting, so I can post the video on
> the BLU website afterward.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 2:02 PM Kurt Keville <kurt.keville at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Let's pencil it in... I can send out the Zoom invite in a day or 2...
>> will put together some verbage.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 12:08 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am comfortable with Zoom if that is what Eliot prefers.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:51 PM Kurt Keville <kurt.keville at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How does this sound?
>>>>
>>>> Someone from MIT (probably Kurt or Alex or Steve Antille)... AVs in the
>>>> age of Quarantine... 30 mins
>>>> Someone from Microway (probably Eliot)...   HPC and SC update... 30 mins
>>>> Someone from BU (probably Natasha)...   SCC update... 30 mins
>>>> Someone from Hamilton (probably Lin-Manuel Miranda)?
>>>> 2 other 30 minute slots? Maybe Eliot has a speaker (possibly even from
>>>> GA Tech)...
>>>>
>>>> I have been doing these party line Dialup events like
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EczW2IWdnOM  and it is really good if
>>>> we can have a live chat window... that way speakers can answer questions in
>>>> RT without people interrupting them in mid-presentation. So we should use a
>>>> Zoom server to offer that option. Eliot has access to one and so do I ... I
>>>> will need to test the one I have out... but will do that this weekend.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:50 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas. We could probably sign up Maddog. He's posted a lot of
>>>>> stories on FB. I personally am not interested in his Brazil projects, but
>>>>> maybe we could come up with something, like the history of Linux and why is
>>>>> has become one of the major players.
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