[SGVLUG] 2/8 Meeting Recap (Was Re: [SGVHAK] Please promote Feb 8th LUG meeting! The 5W1H of Getting Involved with Open Source

[Lan Dang via SGVLUG]

Hi all,

Quick announcement: I'm oversubscribed through June so I'm relying on the functional anarchy to make sure that we have our usual monthly meetings.  Don't rely on me to know what day it is, though you can, of course, get access to the projector and stuff we normally bring to Du-Par's.

The LUG meeting turned out well.  I believe we had about 41 people in attendance.  It was really nice to see some folks I hadn't seen in a while.  We had flyers with our promo code for SCALE and Matti brought a large poster.  Hackaday LA did some last minute promotion for us, so we had a few hardware folks.

Thanks to Michael Starch for manning registration and helping post signs.  There was a little mix-up with facilities, but we managed to deal with it due to long familiarity with OpenX.  Thanks to MPS for dealing with the A/V system and Derek for sorting out the parking.
We had several announcements:   Roger reported on the Hackaday "Repairs You Can Print" contest, which ends on Feb 20th.     https://hackaday.io/contest/32812-repairs-you-can-print-contest

   Andrea advertised the upcoming Write the Docs LA Meetup at Caltech on March 1st
     https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-Los-Angeles/events/247164479/

   I asked for help with the SCALE TNG Playground, and ended up getting a few contacts.
   Matti is pushing for us to have our March 8th LUG meeting at SCALE.  If someone schedules a Birds of a Feather session on Thursday at 7pm, then it would totally be doable.
   Steve Bibayoff announced a work session for the SCALE Tech team, which will be hosted at Nullspace Labs this weekend.  He's already sent info to the mailing list.
   Reminder that we will have a booth at SCALE

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Paul talked about his personal history and illustrated the 5W1H of Getting Involved in Open Source by contrasting the answers from 23-year-old Paul to current-day Paul.  This showed us not only how the landscape had changed, but also how he had changed in his views.  Along the way, he challenged the audience to answer these questions, and we ended up 
having a really nice conversation about open source.  We were even able to highlight that you don't have to write code to contribute, and that sometimes the open source project isn't code at all. 

===Afterwards, we had a fairly large group congregate at Du-Par's.  We fully occupied the back booth in the Barrymore Room.

Lan

      From: Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
 To: Hardware Hacking Special Interest Group <hak at sgvhak.net> 
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 Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 9:27 AM
 Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] [SGVHAK] Please promote Feb 8th LUG meeting! The 5W1H of Getting Involved with Open Source
   
Reminder, we have an exciting speaker for this Thursday's meeting.  See below.
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Lan Dang via HAK <hak at sgvhak.net> wrote:

Hi all,
The next LUG meeting is on "The 5W1H of Getting Involved in Open Source." Our speaker is a hiring manager and open source evangelist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Please help promote the Feb 8th SGVLUG meeting.  It is a terrific opportunity to have a conversation about Open Source, whether it's software or hardware projects.   

It would be great to bring in a diverse audience of evangelists, contributors, and just people who have heard about open source and want to become more involved.  This would make a great Meetup for students or new coders or documentarians.  

Since it will be at OpenX, we need to provide a list of names to security.   Please either RSVP on Meetup or RSVP with me.  If you're new to OpenX, please check out the Meetup for parking instructions.

https://www.meetup.com/ SGVTech/events/zvpphlyxdblb/


TIME: Thursday, February 8th, from 7pm to 9pm
LOCATION: OpenX Technologies, 888 E Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91101
TOPIC: The 5W1H of Getting Involved in Open Source
SPEAKER: Paul Ramirez

Abstract
Open source is vital towards our future in technology development and is being promoted across government institutions and within the private sector. In this talk he will cover the who, what, where, why, and how’s of open source based on his life experience. This talk will seek to inform and recruit the audience to engage and contribute in open source by providing answers to the simple questions. Together we will discuss lowering the barrier to entry into the open source world. And if you’re already contributing to open source then we will share life experiences and camaraderie and plans to infect more people with the open source bug.
Bio Mr. Paul Ramirez has worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the past 17 years and is currently a group supervisor (i.e. hiring manager) for the Science Data Systems Operations Engineering and Computer Science for Data Intensive Applications groups. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly Pomona and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Ramirez has developed, advocated, and help drive policy for Open Source at NASA. Mr. Ramirez has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation as a committer and mentor.

Lan
  



   
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