[SGVLUG] Raspberry Pi SIG Kickoff meeting Thu 9/20 @ 7pm

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

I am interested in hardware hacking not sure I can make it to next
thursday's meeting. Keep me informed.

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
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> I'm not sure we want to limit ourselves to Raspberry Pi.  This could be a
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> general "Hardware Hacking" SIG - Arduinos, BeagleBoards, etc.  Our scope
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> can be a topic for discussion at the meeting.  I'll bring a couple Arduinos
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> and AVR programming tools.
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> -braddock
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> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:34:27 -0700 (PDT), Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com>
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> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> As promised, I'm posting the Raspberry Pi SIG meeting announcement to
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> the
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>> mailing list and the website.
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>> If you want to promote it, you can use this permalink:
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>> http://www.sgvlug.org/meetings/2012/09/20/raspberry-pi-etc-sig
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>> I'll give you fair warning that we'll be meeting in a small classroom,
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> so
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>> we probably don't want to promote it too much.  But we want to attract
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> the
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>> local enthusiasts who are not only interested in meeting up regularly,
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> but
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>> who can help out with the logistics of starting up a SIG.  Right now,
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>> finding a regular meeting venue would be really, really helpful.  (Much
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>> thanks to Junaid for getting us a room for next week's meeting.)
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>> Raspberry Pi SIG
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>> Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7-10 pm
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>> Location: Caltech - Downs 119 (around the corner from usual LUG meeting
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>> room)
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>> Do you like working on hardware projects? Did you just get a
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>> Raspberry Pi/Arduino/Kinect with the intentions of doing something cool?
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>> Do you wish that there was a local meetup group where you can meet up
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>> with like-minded folks and actually make progress with your projects?
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>> Come to our kickoff meeting on Thursday to discuss starting up this
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>> special
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>> interest group. Connect with your fellow hardware geeks and share some
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>> of the projects you’ve been working on. And if we can decide on a name
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>> for the SIG, we can set up things like a mailing list, website, and
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>> wiki.
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>> We have been kindly granted access to a room at Caltech for
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>> this meeting only. It is a small classroom with about 30 student desks
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>> and a teacher desk. We will have access to a projector and power. There
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>> is an open wireless network.
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>> Lan
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