Space Night @ PLUG on Thurs Oct 8th

[PLUG Announcements]

PLUG is hosting a panel on Free Software, Open Standards and fun 
anecdotes for space and space travel. The panel will be composed of 
people who have worked on projects for NASA and JPL.

Bio: Austin is the Science Operations Lead for the Mastcam-Z 
multispectral camera system on the upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission. He 
has developed and currently oversees similar operations on both 
operating Mars rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity. This role consists of 
interacting with the science team, supervising instrument operations, 
software development and systems administration. He currently manages 
about 50 mixed Ubuntu and CentOS machines and maintains a number of 
software projects, some of which are open source.

Bio: Darrin has been developing software since the 80's, currently for 
Limelight Networks, and previously in areas ranging from a NASA space 
mission to finance to 3D modelling. Darrin has been developing for Linux 
and/or BSD since the 90's, and exclusively since 2008.

Please feel free to reply to this message with any questions that you 
would like the panel asked and we will try and work them in.

We go for food/Discussion afterward the meeting to BJs at the nearby mall.
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The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze Substation.  People 
start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would like to help setup 
and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.

Desert Breeze Substation
251 North Desert Breeze Blvd
Chandler, AZ 85226

The Desert Breeze Substation is on Chandler Blvd and Desert Breeze Blvd, 
which is half way between McClintock and Rural.  It is very close
to both the south 202 and 101 freeways.  Public transportation is
available into the late hours.

See http://phxlinux.org/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html for a map 
and other info.

See you there,
Brian Cluff