<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-family: monospace;">Reminder that there is a meeting this week. David Mittman, Bret George, and Robert Witoff will speak about bringing Github Enterprise to JPL. Please advertise this talk to anyone you think might be interested. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">Other items:</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">* SGVLUG meeting room: It's our last meeting at Down 107. We need to get a room for January and future meetings. It's been mentioned on the mailing list and at meetings, but as yet, it is unresolved. I have been
too preoccupied with work and other matters to pursue this. So please, let's figure out where we're meeting in January, so the group can continue to meet.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">* Assuming we can get the room situation resolved, upcoming meetings include </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> * Jan 9 - OLPC (to be confirmed with Caryl)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> * Feb 13 - 7 deadly sins of programmers or the 9 circles of programmer hell (to be confirmed with Steven and
Michael)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> * Feb 21-23 - SCALE</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> * Mar 13 - Configuring a TPM with Linux (to be confirmed with Henry</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">* SCALE Call for Papers ends Dec 15th. If you want to speak at SCALE, get your proposal in. </span><a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/cfp" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(25, 106, 212); font-family:
monospace;">https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/cfp</a><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">SGVLUG meeting, Thu 12/12/2013 7-9pm </span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">WEBSITE: </span><a href="http://sgvlug.org%20/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(25, 106, 212); font-family: monospace;">http://sgvlug.org </a><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">TOPIC: Github Enterprise for JPL </span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">PRESENTERS: </span>David Mittman, Bret George, and Robert Witoff <br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">LOCATION: Caltech - Downs 107. The Downs building is across from the tennis
courts on California at Arden.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">ABSTRACT:</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">GitHub Enterprise for JPL is a new collaboration center that aims to
improve the state of software development by promoting collaboration
between software developers. Come hear the story behind how this new
service came into being and how state-of-the-art software development
tools are being promoted on the grounds of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">BIO: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br></span></div><div>David Mittman is Deputy Manager for Planning and Execution Systems at
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he leads the development of the
Section’s portfolio of software for planning and monitoring the
execution of activities on JPL’s robotic spacecraft. David has developed
software and operated space flight missions for over 25 years and has
recently started concentrating on modernizing the state of software
development at JPL.</div><div><br></div><div>Bret George (forthcoming)</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Robert Witoff is the IT Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and a Y Combinator startup founder. His background includes
development lead for interplanetary data visualization software and
space station systems lead for the experimental OPALS laser
communication satellite. Rob is NASA’s first IT Data Scientist and his
data science team is incubating solutions to Big Data problems for
spacebound explorers, earthborn assets and the people that make them
possible.</div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;">Thanks to Junaid for reserving Downs 107.</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;"><br></span></div></div></body></html>