[Discuss-gnuradio] Boston area GNUradio / USRP meetup?

[Bob Keyes]

I've counted just among people who I've met, two groups at Harvard and two 
groups at MIT who are using or plan to use GNUradio on the USRP. I know of a 
couple of others who are interested in using it but are waiting for a bit more 
software to be available for amateur radio use.

I wonder if an in-person meetup would be useful, or at least enjoyable. For the 
academics, it's probably best to do this between semesters, in January. I can 
arrange a space for up to fifteen or so people at the Harvard Wireless Club 
without any hassle, could probably get a bigger room if need be. But I am not 
insisting it be at Harvard.

Topics I'd like to cover would be a show-n-tell of the USRP2, some info on 
other gnuradio devices, perhaps short summaries by each participant of their 
projects or interests, and perhaps even an in-depth presentation. Lastly, we 
could have a 'swap-meet' where boards are bought-sold-traded, cables, 
enclosures, antennas, components, etc.

It could also be a good place for personal inter-networking. business card 
exchange and so forth.

If you think this is a good idea or bad, etc., air your views here on the 
forum. If you just want to say "I am interested", drop me some private email. 
Once we get a core group of people who would be working on this, I'd move 
traffic off this list in order to keep the noise down.

Regards,
Bob Keyes
Harvard University
rkeyes at fas dot harvard dot edu