# GNU Radio presentation at Virginia Tech, Monday **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [May 30, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-presentation-at-virginia-tech-monday/245459 "2013-05-30T23:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sadaf_N)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-presentation-at-virginia-tech-monday/245459/1 "2013-05-30T23:17:14Z")
Hi everyone, We’ve been holding GNU Radio Hackfests every now and then in the past. These are meant for the main, core developers to get together and develop new material and features, fix bugs, and figure out where we want to go as a project. You can see some of the output of our last Hackfest from November of last year: [http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Hackfest1211](http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Hackfest1211) We’re holding our next one this coming week at Virginia Tech. As part of it, we’re reaching out to the local community at the university and around the area with a brief informational session Monday morning from 10-12. I want to be clear that this isn’t something that I’d recommend for anyone outside of an easy drive to Blacksburg, VA. But at the same time, I didn’t want anyone around to miss it if you are in the area. So feel free to come and chat with us! Here are the details: When: Monday, June 3, 2013 ``` 10am - 12pm ``` Where: ICTAS 310 Schedule: 10:00: Tom R., GNU Radio maintainer ``` Introduction to GNU Radio, the community, and the Hackfest ``` 10:20: Ben H. Ettus R., LLC ``` Review of software radio hardware ``` 10:40: Johnathan C., Corgan Labs and co-maintainer of GNU Radio ``` Interfacing and contributing to the community and the project. ``` 11:00: Philip B., OpenSDR and GNU Radio contributor ``` Developing the open source community in the university. ``` 11:20: Martin B., Ph.D. candidate, KIT and GNU Radio contributor ``` Ben R., GNU Radio contributor Discussing their contributions to GNU Radio and describing the new OFDM development. ``` 11:40: Q & A Tom ---
**Author:** ![tomrobinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@tomrobinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomrobinson)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-presentation-at-virginia-tech-monday/245459/2 "2013-05-30T23:49:22Z")
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Tom R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > of it, we’re reaching out to the local community at the university and > > ``` > Introduction to GNU Radio, the community, and the Hackfest > > ``` > > 11:20: Martin B., Ph.D. candidate, KIT and GNU Radio contributor > > Tom > > * * * > > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > [Discuss-gnuradio Info Page](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio) Is there any interest in holding a Hackfest in the Washington DC area in the next year or two? There are a few universities with engineering schools in the area, with University of Maryland as the top one and I don’t see why their engineering school would turn this down. Just an idea from a DC area local. ---
**Author:** ![tomrobinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@tomrobinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomrobinson)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-presentation-at-virginia-tech-monday/245459/3 "2013-05-31T01:23:20Z")
Could this be made an online streaming live so that people sitting all around could also watch and learn. Are there any plans to organize such events in southern/eastern parts preferably at UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE, FL. -Regards, Ankan R… ---
**Author:** ![tomrobinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@tomrobinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomrobinson)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-presentation-at-virginia-tech-monday/245459/4 "2013-05-31T14:39:07Z")
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Ankan R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Could this be made an online streaming live so that people sitting all > around could also watch and learn. I doubt it. We haven’t really set anything up to do that. There will likely be some photos and video taken of Monday morning’s info session. Frankly, recording the hackfest itself would be a bit awkward for us. We couldn’t quite capture the event, and it would probably make us too self conscious and ruin a bit of the atmosphere. But, we’ll be twittering (#grhack) and make a wiki page like we did for the last one to record what we do and accomplish next week. > Are there any plans to organize such events in southern/eastern parts > preferably at UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE, FL. That’s a harder question. Not sure where or when we’ll do this next. But really glad for your interest! Tom ---
**Author:** ![tomrobinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@tomrobinson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomrobinson)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-presentation-at-virginia-tech-monday/245459/5 "2013-05-31T14:42:38Z")
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Jonathan F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > We’re holding our next one this coming week at Virginia Tech. As part > > When: Monday, June 3, 2013 > > > > 10:40: Johnathan C., Corgan Labs and co-maintainer of GNU Radio > > > > 11:40: Q & A > > > > Tom > > Is there any interest in holding a Hackfest in the Washington DC area > in the next year or two? There are a few universities with engineering > schools in the area, with University of Maryland as the top one and I > don’t see why their engineering school would turn this down. Just an > idea from a DC area local. We definitely have many friends in the DC area, and a hackfest is not out of the question. More likely in the future plans would be to host a GRCon in the DC area, possibly next year. We’ll have a day-long hackfest associated with the conference like we did last time and like we’re planning for GRCon13 (details of that to come soon!). Tom