[SGVLUG] [SGVHAK] Please promote Feb 8th LUG meeting! The 5W1H of Getting Involved with Open Source

[Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG]

Reminder, we have an exciting speaker for this Thursday's meeting.  See
below.

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Lan Dang via HAK <hak at sgvhak.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next LUG meeting is on "The 5W1H of Getting Involved in Open Source."
> Our speaker is a hiring manager and open source evangelist at the Jet
> Propulsion Laboratory.
>
> Please help promote the Feb 8th SGVLUG meeting.  It is a terrific
> opportunity to have a conversation about Open Source, whether it's software
> or hardware projects.
>
> It would be great to bring in a diverse audience of evangelists,
> contributors, and just people who have heard about open source and want to
> become more involved.  This would make a great Meetup for students or new
> coders or documentarians.
>
> Since it will be at OpenX, we need to provide a list of names to
> security.   Please either RSVP on Meetup or RSVP with me.  If you're new to
> OpenX, please check out the Meetup for parking instructions.
>
> https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/zvpphlyxdblb/
>
>
> TIME: Thursday, February 8th, from 7pm to 9pm
> LOCATION: OpenX Technologies, 888 E Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91101
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=888+E+Walnut+St,+Pasadena,+CA+91101&entry=gmail&source=g>
> TOPIC: The 5W1H of Getting Involved in Open Source
> SPEAKER: Paul Ramirez
>
> Abstract
> Open source is vital towards our future in technology development and is
> being promoted across government institutions and within the private
> sector. In this talk he will cover the who, what, where, why, and how’s of
> open source based on his life experience. This talk will seek to inform and
> recruit the audience to engage and contribute in open source by providing
> answers to the simple questions. Together we will discuss lowering the
> barrier to entry into the open source world. And if you’re already
> contributing to open source then we will share life experiences and
> camaraderie and plans to infect more people with the open source bug.
>
> Bio
> Mr. Paul Ramirez has worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the
> past 17 years and is currently a group supervisor (i.e. hiring manager) for
> the Science Data Systems Operations Engineering and Computer Science for
> Data Intensive Applications groups. He holds a BS in Computer Science from
> Cal Poly Pomona and an MS in Computer Science from the University of
> Southern California. Mr. Ramirez has developed, advocated, and help drive
> policy for Open Source at NASA. Mr. Ramirez has been involved with the
> Apache Software Foundation as a committer and mentor.
>
>
> Lan
>
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