Meeting-20170121

WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, January 21, 2017 starting at 3:00pm at IBM Squirrel Hill.

Schedule for the Day

3:00pm - Doors open, set up
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts
3:30pm - Featured presentation
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.

Business Meeting

At this meeting, we will vote on the bylaws amendment proposed at the November 19, 2016 meeting. This amendment will have the effect of rescinding the bylaws.

Votes may be cast by mail or in person at the meeting. Your vote must be received before the polls close to be counted, so show up by 3:15pm to be sure you get to cast yours.

The ballot for this election has been e-mailed to the membership and is available as a PDF on the wiki. Blank ballots will also be available at the meeting.

Speaker/Presentation

Speaker: Vance Kochenderfer

Topic: What Time Is It?

Timekeeping is often taken for granted on computers, but where does that time come from? This will be an overview of how international time is established and distributed around the world. Although NTP will be discussed, this presentation will be more of a high-level view and not a how-to walkthrough.

Resources:

• Slide presentation
• BIPM Circular T
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
• More Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time

Meeting Minutes

To be added.

Meeting Staff

If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the categories below.

• Host: Your name here
• Co-Host: Your name here
• Setup: Your name here, Your name here
• Clean Up: Your name here, Your name here

Carpooling

• Vance Kochenderfer - driving in from the South Hills - e-mail me if interested
• Your name/location here
• Your name/location here