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The next meeting of the Colorado Eiffel Users Group will take place on
Thursday, May 29th,  at 6:30 PM.

Agenda Outline:
    Extracurricular Activity!
    Business
    Eiffel News
    XML Persistence Presentation by by Giancarlo
    Tuple Presentation by Greg Compestine
    Open Source Project Presentation by Steve Thompson


Extracurricular Activity:
    Steve and I are planning to meet at the Westminster Promenade
24-plex to try to catch a matinee of "Matrix: Reloaded" before the
meeting. Everyone interested in joining us is welcome. I'll announce
an exact rendesvous time via the CEUG mailing list next Tuesday.
The theater's schedule and other information is at:
http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=4196

Business:

Steve has started working on the CEUG Web site. He's brought up the
fact that we don't have a written charter. I'd like to briefly discuss
drafting one.

Steve has also asked for photos and backgrounds for CEUG members who'd
like this information posted on the CEUG Web site.

I'd also like to discuss the pro's and con's of being an all-volunteer
organization, as opposed to a registered non-profit.

News:

ISE released 5.3 -- with free download for the Mac as well as Unix and
MSWin.

A new SmartEiffel Beta released. SE is fast approaching release 1.1.

A SCOOP implementation was released from York University!

Recent releases from SAFE: (Another Eiffel project on Sourceforge)
   A numeric library
   A simple PDF library 

Andreas Lietner has a new release of his Eiffel Wrapper Generator.

Presentations:
Giancarlo is developing an XML based persistence mechanism for Eiffel.
He will give an overview of his work.

Greg Compestine will present an overview of tuples.

Steve Thompson will provide everyone with an update of the CEUG Open
Source project. Steve has added several new, significant projects, and
may have new progress to report on the older projects.

Meeting Location and directions:
    Fowler Software Design
    8391 Delaware Street
    Denver CO 80221

This is on 84th St. near I-25. Parking is at the rear of the building,
accessible from Elati St. If you are coming in from I-25, exit on 84th
St, head west to Elati, one block past Delaware and five blocks from
I-25. Turn left (south) and enter the parking lot on the corner that's
just behind the Fowler Software building. Landmarks: There's an
Econo-lube on the north side of 84th, across from Elati.

If you are coming in from Boulder, take Highway 36 south. Exit onto
northbound Federal Blvd. Proceed north to 84th St. Turn right (east)
on 84th, and proceed about 1.7 miles to Delaware. On the southeast
corner of Delaware and 84th, you'll see the parking lot behind FSD.

The CEUG is proudly sponsored by Eiffel Software, the creators of
EiffelStudio(TM) and Eiffel ENViSioN! (TM) For more information,
visit:
http://www.eiffel.com

We are also sponsored by Fowler Software Design, the frequent host of
our meetings.
http://www.fowlersoftware.com/

Subscribe the the group's email list at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colorado_eiffel_users/

The Eiffel programming language offers advanced support for OO,
generics, assertions (in the form of Design by Contract) closures
(known as agents) and more. A good starting place to learn more about
Eiffel is:
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_eiffel.html

The CEUG Open Source Project is located on SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ceug/

The SmartEiffel Compiler is at:
http://smarteiffel.loria.fr

The Eiffel Wrapper Generator is at:
http://ewg.sourceforge.net

The SAFE project is at:
http://safe.sourceforge.net