The Salt Lick (Pictures & Hilights)

Our trip to The Salt Lick was great! We all met at the LAVA/OpenG Booth and then headed out on the road. We had about 30 people make it, which made for quite a lively dinner party. We didn't get seated right away, but 1 beer later we were seated and enjoying the BBQ. We had a great mix of LAVA, OpenG, and LabVIEW R&D team-members, so you can imagine that the fun conversations had over dinner.

Preparing to depart:
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Dinner is served:
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Posted by Jim Kring at 06:22 AM Permalink

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Copper Tank Gathering

Well the gathering at the Copper Tank was off to a bad start. I show up there and find out that the taps don't work and they don't serve food. Thanks a lot Brad! Anyway, we all decided to stay in case more people were coming. In the end we drank a few beers, got to know each other and then we ordered pizza from a delivery place. Yes, they delivered to the restaurant! Funny.

Copper Tank gang
Jim Kring
Brad Hedstrom looking for food in the Yellow Pages
Don Roth
Dirk De Mol making a pass at the waitress
Waitress
Dirk, pizza delivery girl and Chuck Kincade
Chuck and his wife
Brad enjoying his pizza
Dig in!
Brad cashing-in on the whole deal

In the end I had to part ways since I wanted to go over to the Alliance day festivities. But that's another posting...

Posted by Michael Aivaliotis at 08:19 AM Permalink | Comments (1)

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OpenG Sessions at NI Week

OpenG will be presenting two back-to-back sessions on Wednesday from 11:30 AM to 12:15 PM and from 12:30 PM to 1:20 PM in Mezzanine Room 6. The first presentation is titled OpenG Development System Tools and will be a high-level presentation showing a user's experience with the OpenG Tools in the LabVIEW Development Environment. There will be a demonstration of OpenG Package Manager's integration with the online package repository and directory service (think Window's update, but better). The second presentation is titled OpenG LabVIEW Development Process Model and will go into specific details about the process used in the ongoing develop and reuse of OpenG Tools and libraries. We've left a short 15 minute break in between the two sessions so that folks can run to the Expo floor and grab some food, before coming back to the second session.

Posted by Jim Kring at 04:53 PM Permalink

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OpenG Presentation II - OpenG LabVIEW Development Process Model

Title: OpenG LabVIEW Development Process Model
Description: Developing LabVIEW reuse tools and libraries is a critical step in the maturation of a LabVIEW developer or development group. However, because LabVIEW bundles VI source code with a VI's executable code, it is easy to improperly manage project files. Also, managing project source files, libraries, and other dependencies across several projects can be a tough problem to tackle. Find out which tools, strategies, and methodologies OpenG developers are using to address these problems and how you can use them, today, in your development work.

Date & Time: Wednesday 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Track: OpenG
Speaker(s): Jim Kring
Location: Mezzanine Room 6
The Mezzanine level is hard to find. This is not on the top floor. Take stairs to the second floor. If you need to, ask a conference attendant for directions.

Posted by Jim Kring at 04:06 PM Permalink

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OpenG Presentation I - OpenG Development System Tools

Title: OpenG Development System Tools
Description: Have you struggled integrating your development tools into LabVIEW. Do you spend time replicating development systems or changing library configurations? Have you created custom palette views to enable easy access to your libraries? Come learn how the developers at OpenG have solved all of these problems. Learn about the OpenG Package Manager, the online package directory service and repository, the Development Environment Application Builder, the VI Library Manager, the Dynamic Palette View, the Menu-Launch Manager, and many other key components that together make up the collection of OpenG Development System Tools.

Date & Time: Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
(after this session ends, go grab some food and come right back for the OpenG LabVIEW Development Process Model session at 12:30 PM, in the same location)
Track: OpenG
Speaker(s): Jim Kring
Location: Mezzanine Room 6
The Mezzanine level is hard to find. This is not on the top floor. Take stairs to the second floor. If you need to, ask a conference attendant for directions.

Posted by Jim Kring at 04:05 PM Permalink

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LabVIEW Advanced User Group Meeting

There will be a LabVIEW user group meeting taking place this year at NIWeek. This meeting will be modeled after the successful LAVA meetings that have been taking place within the LAVA communities of California and Ontario, Canada.

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Posted by Michael Aivaliotis at 11:12 AM Permalink

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Informal LabVIEWers on the Mac gathering

Dear LVers affiliated with the Apple Macintosh platform,

We would like to stage some unofficial gathering of the LabVIEW wireworker community working on LabVIEW's heritage platform to discuss some projects and future activities. Please, those of you who will be in Austin during NI-Week 2003 and interested to join, please mail me a note and I will get back to you with further information.

Urs

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Urs Lauterburg
University of Berne
urs.lauterburg@phim.unibe.ch

Posted by Urs Lauterburg at 11:00 PM Permalink | Comments (3)

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