<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_6775">Hi all,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_8060"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9882">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.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9883"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_8541">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. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_10356"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_10381">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. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_8915"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_8960">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.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_8455"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_8436" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/zvpphlyxdblb/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_8442" class="">https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/zvpphlyxdblb/</a><br></div><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9729"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9730">TIME: Thursday, February 8th, from 7pm to 9pm<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9731">LOCATION: OpenX Technologies, 888 E Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91101<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9732"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9733"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9841">TOPIC: The 5W1H of Getting Involved in Open Source<br></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9734">SPEAKER: Paul Ramirez<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9735"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_10065"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9736"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_10066">Abstract<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9736"></div></div>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.<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9741"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9742"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9743">Bio</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9745"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_10152">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.</div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9750"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9751"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9752"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9753"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9754">Lan<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9755"></div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1517707432345_9756"><div dir="ltr"> </div></div></div></body></html>