<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydpb8e52e77yiv2952240122yahoo-style-wrap">
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi all,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Come join us at the next SGVLUG meeting. It'll be a chance for us to reconnect. Also, we need to pass the hat to for club expenses.<div><br></div></div><div>Since it's part of Connect Week, I focused on things I wanted to promote to a wider audience, which includes the Southern California Linux Expo, JPL's FPrime, and the Open Source Rover. Please advertise this to whoever you think might be interested.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sgvtech/events/zvpphlydcnbrb/" class="ydpb8e52e77yiv2952240122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.meetup.com/sgvtech/events/zvpphlydcnbrb/</a></span><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>We will have brief talks about the Southern California
Linux Expo and about the open source projects developed at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. Stick around to talk one-on-one with the guest
speakers.
<div><strong><br></strong></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thursday, Oct 13th, 6:30-9pm. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Supplyframe Design Lab (<span>30 E Del Mar Blvd · Pasadena, CA)</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There is some street parking, but we're also near the Del Mar Gold Line Station and its parking structure.</div></div><div><br></div></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>Agenda:</strong></div><p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">
6:45pm Announcements</p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">7:00pm <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/cfp" class="ydpab932f6elink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Southern California Linux Expo Call for Papers</a> and call for volunteers</p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">7:15pm <strong>Michael Starch</strong> will give a tour of the newly released F' system reference. The <a href="https://nasa.github.io/fprime/" class="ydpab932f6elink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">F´framework</a>
was developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to make spacecraft
control and embedded software simpler to design, develop, and test. F´
was released as Open Source in 2017 and has continued to grow as a
project and community.</p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">7:30pm <strong>Lini Mestar</strong> and interns <strong>Victor Jimenez</strong> and <strong>Jack Cheng</strong> will talk about the current work they're doing with the <a href="https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov" class="ydpab932f6elink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JPL Open Source Rover</a>
at JPL. The OSR was developed by JPL summer interns as an inexpensive
project for high school and college classes to exercise mechanical and
electronics and software engineering. It is currently being developed by
the <a href="https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover" class="ydpab932f6elink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">open source community</a>, but the OSR has proved to be a useful robotics platform at universities and at JPL.</p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">7:45pm <strong>Achille Verheye</strong> will talk about the Open Source Rover community and the work they've been doing on a complete redesign of the OSR.</p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">8:00pm <strong>Lan Dang</strong> will be soliciting advice and interest in restarting work on the <a href="https://bit.ly/sgvhak_rover" class="ydpab932f6elink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SGVHAK Rover</a>, which was part of the pilot for the Open Source Rover, but has evolved to its own design.</p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">8:05pm Break up into individual discussions</p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">8:45pm Wrap up</p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">--<br>
About the speakers</p>
<ul class="ydpab932f6epl-5 ydpab932f6elist-disc ydpab932f6emb-4"><li><strong>Michael Starch</strong> has worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory for over 10 years. His latest job is designing and building
the software used to control JPL's spacecraft. He is also the community
manager overseeing the development of the F´ software framework.</li><li><strong>Lini Mestar</strong> is a Senior Research Engineer for the
Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Innovation Development
Organization in the Information Technology and Solutions Directorate
(ITSD) at NASA JPL. (See <a href="https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/lini-mestar" class="ydpab932f6elink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">his official bio</a> for more details.</li><li><strong>Victor Jimenez</strong> is a second-generation Latino at
East Los Angeles Community College passionate in research and design of
mechanical vehicles. He is looking to transfer and obtain a Bachelor's
of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona.</li><li><strong>Jack Cheng i</strong>s a student at Pasadena City College
and obsessed with robotics and technology. He spends all his free time
designing and making things.</li><li><strong>Achille Verheye</strong> is a Sr. robotics engineer at Freedom Robotics where he builds management and control software for fleets of rovers. He has <a href="http://achille.fyi/" class="ydpab932f6elink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">designed and built several robots from scratch</a> and maintains the NASA-JPL Open Source Rover in his spare time.</li><li><strong>Lan Dang</strong> is a leader of the SGVLUG and its sister
group, the SGVHAK hardware hacking group, mentors new hires at work as
well as local high school and college students, and volunteers with
various STEAM groups and events. She has a lot of experience herding
cats.</li></ul>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4">--<br>
<strong>About Connect Week</strong></p>
<p class="ydpab932f6emb-4"><a href="https://www.innovatepasadena.org/" class="ydpab932f6elink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Innovate Pasadena</a>
launched Connect Week as a festival of independently organized talks,
workshops, and social events produced by independent organizers and
hosted in venues all across Pasadena. During Connect Week we invite
entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, scientists, educators,
businesspeople, designers, and students to unite and celebrate the
creativity and ingenuity that’s right here in our own backyard.</p></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr">Lan<br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div></div><div id="ydpb8e52e77yahoo_quoted_5918355358" class="ydpb8e52e77yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">
</div>
</div></div></body></html>