Hi All, John will be tending the chicken coop this Friday as I'm off to Oxford to find out how to stop the robots from destroying humanity -- or somethng like that. Please feel free to drop me a line between Friday and Tuesday if you check the webpage and there's anyone at the conference you'd like me to talk to with questions you may have! http://www.winterintelligence.org/ & http://agi-conf.org/2012/ ... but to be really floored, check out the extended abstracts http://www.winterintelligence.org/agi-impacts-extended-abstracts/ So Friday 7pm to 10pm at the regular place -- and hey I may well just come for a virtual visit "teleconfercing in" on my Nexus 7 from far away Oxford! Please feel free to wipe off the whiteboard and use it for tracking the topics that come up or for visual explanations. In the three hours it's not unreasonable to expect there to be at least ten topics/problems/solutions/gripes so if we can get Kripa some help with the notetaking to at least have 10 things we can all followup on as we like then that'd be fab. Please feel free to bring show-and-tell with new "tidbits" you've picked up to share with the group and eventually the world! :) Please do take some notes else the sharing with the world part is harder ;-P I'll see you the 14th and the following week of 21st we should figure out if we should be closed for the holidays or especially open and have a party?! December 28th should see us all laden with new gadgets and into the new year on January 4th. The new year we'll see a coalescing of the klub's focus with new marketing to bring in more folks and we'll be moving on up to the big room upstairs where we'll easily be able to have 20 to 30 people and hopefully with extra ammenities like a video projector and more. Be sure to mention to your neighbours and friends about the klub as they get their own gubbins and how they can tap into the shared coummunity spirit to gain confidence rather ignoring the little beasties when they do something nasty. Please feel free to contact John with any questions or suggestions. John Sandford <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Looking forward to next week when I'll give my report on the conference! TTYS B^) Brian. contact@xxxxxxxxx 07805541439