The meetup has a conventional wiki page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/36
and also an Eventbrite page (has been shown to bring in people we don't otherwise see):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-wikimedia-meetup-tickets-3951002555...
Let me hasten to say that you can attend without a ticket!
Since the room has a projector, I'll be running an introductory Wikipedia editing session from 1 pm to 3 pm. Some followup was requested after a local workshop in September. The meetup proper will start at 3 pm. Last time we had several demos.
Hope to see some of you there.
Charles
On 02/11/17 21:12, Charles Matthews wrote:
The meetup has a conventional wiki page
Can you ask Prof. Hawking why he did not publish his thesis as an open document?
Gordo
Sure, next meeting he attends. (It gives me a chance to say that, from the point of view of wheelchair access, the current venue is much better than we have had in the past.) In fact the last time I was in a room with him, it was at a a shortened version of the Ring Cycle. But that was many years ago.
Hawking's papers are actually at the Moore Library in Cambridge.
Charles
I know my old dinosaur brain gets confused easily these days, but I seem to remember that when we were typing our theses back in the '60s, there wasn't any such thing as an open document. Maybe that's why?
On 10 November 2017 at 19:33, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
There is a joke "free as in carbon paper" in there somewhere.
Information wants to be free. Information wants to be expensive.
Does maker space mean "someone who might know something about .STL files"? (although I'll be there either way since I want to go to duxford).
Eh my interest is more in creating .STL files to create objects than be rotated in the browser than 3D printing.
On 12 November 2017 at 20:05, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 12/11/17 19:48, geni wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)
Just in case like me you did not know what STL was!
:-)
Gordo
That's an amazing quote Fabian! L
On 10 November 2017 at 17:59, leutha@fabiant.eu wrote:
On 10/11/17 14:17, Rex X wrote:
Did Hawking put a (2017?) standard copyright on the recent high quality scan?
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-PHD-05437/1
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251038
That is this version:
"Thesis - Colour High Resolution (2017) (PDF, 32Mb)"
Physical Location: Cambridge University Library Classmark: PhD.5437 Subject(s): Cosmology Author(s): Hawking, Stephen, 1942- Origin Place: Cambridge Date of Creation: 1966 Language(s): English Extent: 117 leaves ; 26 cm Material: Paper Format: Book
I am enjoying reading this text, handwritten equations from a man who a few years later lost most of his motor skills, not least since it was "my area" in the early 1980s.
"The Hand of Hawking"
Gordo
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