Contribute to open-source while advancing space science and space exploration at this monthly meetup event!!

All skill levels welcome! Attendees are encouraged to learn/exercise pair-programming/development and agile techniques to contribute to open source projects!

Projects can include, but not limited to:

• NASA/JPL Open Source Rover
• Project PANOPTES - Citizen-science robotic telescopes that can detect transiting exoplanets
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey - detailed three-dimensional maps of the Universe, with deep multi-color images of one-third of the sky and spectra for more than three million astronomical objects.
• Celestial - Real-time 3D visualization of space
• Stellarium - A realistic, real-time 3D simulation of the night sky
• KubOS - Open source software stack for satellites
• Space Decentral - A decentralized platform for developing and funding open-source space missions and projects
• and more!!

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What to bring

• Your laptop and charger (unless you'll be pair programming with someone who brought theirs)

• Curiosity and excitement to learn, teach, and code with new friends!

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Agenda

• 6:00pm: Socialize/get settled

• 6:15pm: Intros & Announcements

• 6:30pm: Crash course on pair programming and contributing to open-source

• 6:45pm: Pick open-source projects to work on, pair off into teams

• 7pm - 8:45pm: Start coding!

• 8:45pm - 9pm: Agile/scrum-style retrospective.

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Parking / venue info:

Parking will be free and available through the East Entrance (which will be open).

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Meetup Preparation (Recommended):

• Join the #code-for-space channel on our Slack group at https://bit.ly/sgvtech_slack

• Look through featured project issues and resources on https://github.com/code-for-space

• Read "What is pair-programming?"
  https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html

• Read "How do I contribute to open source?"
  https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/

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Attribution

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