Re: GNU Radio Conference 2020 – Online, Free and Starting Monday, 2020-09-14

[Marcus Müller]

If you want a calendar that you can embed into your thunderbird, or
Google Calendar, or any other Webcal-compatible (ICS) software:

https://sync.inpha.se

is a calendar URL. The calendar is automatically generated from the
openconf calendar, and might be ~ 10 min behind on any updates that happen.

On 13.09.20 22:04, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Dear most social SDR community to ever peruse the aethers,
> 
> Monday GRCon'2020 kicks off. That seems almost unreal – usually I'd be
> stumbling around jetlagged after travelling to the US for GRCon, but due
> to epidemic reasons, this year's GRCon happens online, streamed live.
> 
> So, how do you participate? Read the full participant's guide [1]!
> And: bask in our schedule [2].
> 
> Because I know not everyone likes clicking links, I'd like to give a few
> key points that most of you might care about in this email already:
> 
> # Streaming
> 
> Every day has its own stream URL, these are [3]
> 
> # Participation instead of passive consumption
> 
> This is not a TV show. It lives from interaction.
> You will be encouraged to ask questions and discuss the talks while the
> thing is happening. Sadly, unlike in-person GRCon's, we don't have
> hallways with delicious food and coffee for that, so instead we have a
> chat server with several specific channels.
> 
> You'll want to join the +grcon community on the gnuradio.org Matrix
> server. It's all not very hard, and you can sign up under [4];
> afterwards, navigating to the +grcon community [5] will lead you to all
> the channels that will be used for GRCon discussions – you'll mainly
> want to join #grcon-discuss for general discussion ("hey, how you've
> been?") and #grcon-talks (discussion and Q&A for talks).
> 
> Because it's so crucial people are able to communicate (ha! Who would
> know better than SDR people?), we have a video tutorial [6].
> 
> # Time Zones
> 
> The Conference starts at 10:00am EDT, that is the time zone of e.g. New
> York. That's, to pick a few locations,
> 
> * 02:00 in Wellington (next morning)
> * 01:00 in Port Vila
> * 24:00 in Sydney
> * 23:00 in Seoul and Tokio
> * 22:00 in Beijing
> * 21:00 in Bangkok
> * 19:30 in New Delhi
> * 17:00 in Helsinki, Moscow, Haifa
> * 16:00 in Paris, Brussels, Warsaw, Johannesburg, Karlsruhe, Vienna
> * 15:00 in London, Lisbon
> * 14:00 in Dakar, Reykjavík
> * 13:00 in Praia
> * 12:00 in Nuuk
> * 11:30 in St. John's
> * 11:00 in Brasília
> * 10:00 in Toronto, Port-au-Prince
> * 09:00 in Mexico City, Bogotá
> * 08:00 in Guatemala City
> * 04:00 in Honululu
> 
> I'm kind of excited: The GRCon team did, in my opinion, an incredible
> job at coordinating a fascinating programme, and making it possible to
> access all that. You can thank them by showing up!
> 
> See you then,
> Marcus
> 
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQtKfY1-ZT7bhYlkbQlOIKlv026qGr9ZbZlpoWx4Sjou8dOOZ4K2GvAMhCXVu0vIPYvq2z5KsvGIj36/pub
> [2]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRzQRVelQmDWWUJJRgzFe0OxdVntA5X191hM3zhGgjKIpgMB9KOllXRmFwbryoGJpYIKiNNF4rQv_hw/pubhtml
> [3] Monday September 14th - https://youtu.be/o0Q99JYW8Mg
> Tuesday September 15th - https://youtu.be/sFqIkXxhc14
> Wednesday September 16th - https://youtu.be/YOT8U5K4wbk
> Thursday September 17th - https://youtu.be/RTio6xMka2o
> [4] https://chat.gnuradio.org
> [5] https://chat.gnuradio.org/#/group/+grcon:gnuradio.org
> [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZUWmGQrbBQ
>