PLUG Meeting Thursday March 12th: SPACE NIGHT 2

Sat Mar 7 14:40:00 MST 2020

  PLUG Meeting for March 12^th

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    This month:

    Space Night 2

    For more info, Meeting time and location see:*
    http://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html**
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*This month we'll be treated to PLUG's second Space themed night.

*Space Night 2*

*Description*:
Join PLUG for a space panel featuring members of the MASTCAM-Z team 
discussing the roles of Free Software and open standards in their 
projects and the open science they're investigating as part of their 
missions.

Based at ASU, the panel members have worked on projects such as the 
MASTCAM-Z and MASTCAM projects for Mars rovers, Lunar Reconnaissance 
Orbiter and the Psyche Mission.

Video from previous Space Night panel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnxge96YO3A

*Panelists*:

*Ernest Cisneros*

Ernest received a Bachelor's of Science in Geology, from the University 
of Texas at El Paso (1989). After a stint in graduate school at Northern 
Arizona University, studying the metamorphic history of the Old Woman 
Mountains, he began a 27 year career combining his love of geology and 
computers. Ernest has worked at the USGS in Flagstaff, Duke University, 
Northwestern University and most recently at Arizona State University. 
Ernest has supported science and data processing for Clementine, MSI on 
NEAR, CRISM on MRO, MDIS on MESSENGER, Pancam on MER. His most recent 
work was developing the Science Operations Center for the Lunar 
Reconnaissance Orbiter, supporting multispectral data processing of 
MASTCAM images from MSL, developing the ground data system for MASTCAM-Z 
instrument on the Mars 2020 rover, and developing the Science Data 
Center for the Psyche Mission. During his career, Ernest has seen Linux 
grow from "just something we are playing with for SysAdmin stuff" into a 
mainstay in server rooms, desktops and at home, tackling a wide-variety 
of roles. He has used a variety of Linux flavors: Slackware (installed 
from floppies), Redhat, Debian, CentOS, SuSE, and Ubuntu (most 
recently), installed on everything from SBC (Raspberry Pi and 
Tinkerboards), Intel/AMD PC's, PowerPC, RISC and a variety of other 
architectures.

*Kristen Paris*

Kristen is the Down-link Operations Lead for the Mastcam-Z camera for 
the Mars2020 rover mission and previously worked with the Lunar 
Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera also at ASU. Kristen has been using 
Linux-based systems for NASA Instrument Operations for over 10 years. 
Usually she uses her Linux-y powers for good, but sometimes her powers 
have other (unintended) consequences. Kristen automated myself out of a 
job and enjoyed it! She has also brought a 200+node computing cluster to 
a screeching halt (know if 3rd-party software is secretly trying to be 
"helpful" and know how to disable these "helpful" features). Kristen 
loves Space, enjoys computers (when they do what she intends for them to 
do), and considers herself a Danger Linux Power User.

*Corrine Rojas*

Corrine is a NASA Mars 2020 Rover Mastcam-Z Instrument Operations 
Engineer based at Arizona State University (ASU). She is a science team 
collaborator for the Mars Science Laboratory, formerly at the Lunar 
Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Her specialty is spacecraft operations 
(orbiters and rovers), research in planetary geology, and creating all 
kinds of maps, particularly 3D terrain maps that are out of this world. 
She has a BSc in Geography and Geographic Information Science from ASU. 
She was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ to loving immigrant parents from 
Durango, Mexico. In college, she was a Shirley G. Schmitz Foundation 
Scholar for entrepreneurs; participated in an ASU-funded start-up 
DemocraSeed in which she mentored high school-aged kids in a rural AZ 
town about creative problem solving issues in their community using 
design thinking; and interned at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the 
Curiosity rover mission operations team. She is currently on the board 
of the Society of Women in Space Exploration, and on the leadership 
council of Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences (Geolatinas). She 
does not consider herself a technical computer science person, though 
she is slowly coming to terms that her job is 80% bash scripting to 
manipulate a ton of data, and you kinda have to have a good idea of what 
you’re doing in order to spare your perfectly obedient hardware from 
being smashed by a 2x4.

*Nathan Cluff*

Nathan is the Lead Systems Administrator for the Mastcam and Mastcam-Z 
cameras on the Mars Science Laboratory and Mars 2020 rovers in addition 
to supporting operations for various other missions such as the Luna 
Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-map) mission. Nathan has been involved in 
various Linux administrative positions for the last 18 years and has 
been in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU for the last 4 
years.
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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.
*Meeting Location*:
Desert Breeze Substation
251 North Desert Breeze Blvd West
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.

For more information see the meeting information on our web site 
<http://phxlinux.org/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html>

Contact PLUG:
Email: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/email-lists.html
IRC: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/chat.html
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+PhxlinuxOrg
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Linux-Users-Group/
	<https://www.google.com/maps/place/251+Desert+Breeze+Blvd+W,+Chandler,+AZ+85226/@33.3076899,-111.9220921,17z/data=%214m5%213m4%211s0x872b06cdd50c43c7:0x7d3e9c66bdb7f8a2%218m2%213d33.3070191%214d-111.9193025?hl=en>

We will go for food (usually to BJs at the Chandler Fashion Center Mall) 
after the meeting so we can chat with each other comfortably. Please 
feel free to join us. Please come even if you aren't hungry, the food is 
not mandatory.

See you there,
Brian Cluff

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