Name: CONNECT WEEK: SGVLUG: Rovers and FPrime and SCALE
Start: 2022-10-13T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2022-10-13T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Supplyframe DesignLab

SGVLUG at [Connect Week 2022](http://connectpasadena.com)

Thanks to our venue host, [Supplyframe Design Lab](https://supplyframe.com/designlab/). Check out their [Open House](https://www.connectpasadena.com/event/supplyframe-designlab-open-house) at 4pm.

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.

**Agenda:**
6:45pm Announcements

7:00pm [Southern California Linux Expo Call for Papers](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/cfp) and call for volunteers

7:15pm **Michael Starch** will give a tour of the newly released F' system reference. The [F´framework](https://nasa.github.io/fprime/) 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.

7:30pm **Lini Mestar** and interns **Victor Jimenez** and **Jack Cheng** will talk about the current work they're doing with the [JPL Open Source Rover](https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov) 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 [open source community](https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover), but the OSR has proved to be a useful robotics platform at universities and at JPL.

7:45pm **Achille Verheye** will talk about the Open Source Rover community and the work they've been doing on a complete redesign of the OSR.

8:00pm **Lan Dang** will be soliciting advice and interest in restarting work on the [SGVHAK Rover](https://bit.ly/sgvhak_rover), which was part of the pilot for the Open Source Rover, but has evolved to its own design.

8:05pm Break up into individual discussions

8:45pm Wrap up

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About the speakers

* **Michael Starch** 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.
* **Lini Mestar** 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 [his official bio](https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/lini-mestar) for more details.
* **Victor Jimenez** 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.
* **Jack Cheng i**s a student at Pasadena City College and obsessed with robotics and technology. He spends all his free time designing and making things.
* **Achille Verheye** is a Sr. robotics engineer at Freedom Robotics where he builds management and control software for fleets of rovers. He has [designed and built several robots from scratch](http://achille.fyi/) and maintains the NASA-JPL Open Source Rover in his spare time.
* **Lan Dang** 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.

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**About Connect Week**

[Innovate Pasadena](https://www.innovatepasadena.org/) 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.

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**About the SGVLUG**

San Gabriel Valley Linux User Group or SGVLUG is one of the oldest and most active Linux User Groups in the Greater Los Angeles area. In addition to Linux, the group also shares interests in other free and open source software, all forms of technology, and the discussion of issues that arise with the these new tools, such as privacy rights. SGVLUG attracts members from throughout LA County including Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, and eastward throughout the San Gabriel Valley. Our members include software developers, system administrators, hardware engineers, and software users of all levels of experience. Many work in the technology field as employees, contractors or consultants, and enjoy the learning and networking opportunities available from the group. We also have many members that serve as volunteers of their time and skills at various local events, including the annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE).

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