Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio meetup at the 2010 SDR Technical Conference, Washington, DC

[Steve Mcmahon]

Tom:

Thanks for organizing this. I would REALLY like to attend the conference and 
also this meeting, but I already have commitments for that week that I can't 
re-schedule. But I am planning on going next year. Is the conference run every 
year? Is it always held in Washington D.C.?

So I had another idea I'd like to propose to the community. Would anyone be 
interested in attending informal and regular GNU Radio User Group (GRUG) 
meetings, similar to the Linux User Group (LUG) meetings that are held 
regularly in cities all over the world? I am located in Boston, so if there's 
some interest, I'd be willing to organize an initial meeting in mid-January in 
Boston/Cambridge. With any luck, we could hold such meetings every other month 
or once per quarter. Please let me know if anyone would be interested.

Steve McMahon


--- On Thu, 10/21/10, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Tom Rondeau <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio meetup at the 2010 SDR Technical 
> Conference, Washington, DC
> To: "GNURadio Discussion List" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 7:22 PM
> GNU Radio community,
> 
> We will be holding a GNU Radio meetup at the SDR Technical
> Conference
> on Wednesday, December 1 at 7:30 in the Hyatt Regency
> Crystal City.
> Meeting room TBA.
> 
> For those of you who made it last year, it will be a
> similar event.
> Matt Ettus and myself will be there with Ettus Research,
> LLC
> sponsoring food and beverages. This is a time for people
> involved in
> the community to get to know each other a bit better and
> share their
> work and ideas. I'll take some time to provide everyone
> present with
> some of our ideas for the future of the project and Matt
> will be
> sharing some of his plans for Ettus Research.
> 
> Importantly, though, I would really love to hear back from
> all of you
> about what work you're doing as well as thoughts on the
> project. We
> will have 1.5 hours for discussion, including some time at
> the
> beginning for food and some informal introductions. For the
> bulk of
> it, I would really like to get some good discussion going
> about GNU
> Radio and its applications. So please come prepared to
> share!
> 
> We will likely head out to a local bar for around 9PM to
> continue the
> discussions over beer.
> 
> This year, we are going to be more formally a part of the
> SDR
> Conference, and as such, the organizers of the conference
> have asked
> for people to register. You have a few options for
> registering,
> including the free option. I will be attending all week and
> have a
> presentation on Tuesday as part of an Open Source Software
> panel
> session put together by Phil Balister as well as a tutorial
> on GNU
> Radio on Thursday. Matt will be there as an exhibitor
> during the
> entire conference. That's just to let you know some of the
> activities
> going on during the full conference. You can find more
> here:
> http://conference.wirelessinnovation.org/
> 
> To register, you can see the different options here:
> http://conference.wirelessinnovation.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=118975&orgId=s1
> 
> 
> I apologize for the timing of this email. I realize now
> that I should
> have gotten it out sooner since tomorrow is the cut-off of
> the early
> registration deadline. Anyway, the organizers are asking
> people to
> register, even if that's just the "Exhibitors and Exhibits
> Only
> Attendee," which is free for pre-registration or $50 for
> on-site
> registration.
> 
> 
> Location information:
> For those not familiar with the DC area, Crystal City is
> just south of
> DC (technically in Arlington, VA) on Rt. 1. Here's the
> map:
> http://goo.gl/maps/itPK
> 
> The bar we will most likely be going to is Bailey's Sports
> Grill (or
> The Fox and Hound, depending on where you look). It's a
> decent pub
> with a large selection of beer, and I think we all had a
> pretty good
> time there last year. Note that this is the one on Crystal
> City Dr,
> not Wilson Blvd.
> http://goo.gl/maps/uaXi
> 
> 
> RSVP:
> It's not necessary to tell me that you're coming, but it
> would help us
> to get a feel for the amount of food we should plan on.
> 
> 
> Thanks! And I look forward to seeing many of you there!
> Tom
> 
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