[wplug] Fun sounding event at Google - Red Planet

Pat Barron pat at lectroid.com
Mon Jun 17 11:51:07 EDT 2013


The folks at Google have asked us to pass on some info about an event 
they're holding later this month, on June 27th.  It's not exactly Linux 
related, but it does involve Raspberry Pi's.  ;-)

The event information / registration site is: 
http://redplanetpit.eventbrite.com <http://redplanetpit.eventbrite.com/>

 From the site, here's their published abstract of the event:

"...Its the year 20XX. Humans have colonized Mars, but power is scarce, 
fuel and oxygen are critical, and keeping track of the locations of both 
is proving challenging. Google Space Site Reliability Engineers (Space 
SRE) are designing and building low-power lightweight infrastructure 
suitable for deployment to Mars. Help save our species on the red 
planet, and write the waypoint selection backend code on a Raspberry Pi 
machine, to find the power and fuel!"

It's free to participate, but you do need to register in advance.  And, 
it does sound like fun.  And there will be snacks. ;-)

If you have any questions about the event, please contact the Google 
event organizer on the Eventbrite page - this is all the information 
WPLUG has about the event right now....

--Pat.


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