** March 2023 Inner Circle ------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to our newsletter for March 2023! Inner Circle is a non-technical update on everything that is happening at ORI. Sign up at this link http://eepurl.com/h_hYzL Contents: FPGA Workshop Cruise with ORI? ORI’s Birthday 6 March - Celebrate With Pins! RFBitBanger Prototypes Announcing the ORI App Stores QSO Today Ham Expo Spotlight Jay Francis in QEX Pierre W4CKX Declares Candidacy for ORI Board of Directors FPGA Workshop Cruise with ORI? Want to learn more about open source FPGA development from experts in the field? Want to get away? How about something that can give you both? We are looking at organizing an FPGA Workshop Adventure Cruise. Be part of the planning and write fpga@openresearch.institute ORI’s Birthday - Celebrate With Pins! We celebrate our 4th birthday on 6 March 2023. Thank you to everyone that has helped ORI grow and succeed in so many different ways. To commemorate our anniversary, we have a limited edition acrylic logo pin. They will be available for a small donation at all upcoming in-person events. Where will be be? We’ll be at DEFCON 31 and IEEE IWRC in Little Rock, AR, USA 13-14 September 2023. Want to include us at your event before then? Let us know at hello@openresearch.institute RFBitBanger Prototypes Interested in high frequency amateur (HF) bands? Want to learn about Class E amplification? Excited about open HF digital protocols that aren’t just signal reports? Well, we have a kit for you. Here’s a walk-through by Paul KB5MU of all RFBitBanger modes. () This project is lead by Dr. Daniel Marks, is enthusiastically supported by ORI, and will be demonstrated at DEFCON in August 2023. We are doing all we can to have kits available for sale by DEFCON, or sooner. Announcing the ORI App Stores Open Research Institute can be found in the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. That’s right - we are in both app stores delivering open source mobile apps. Thank you to everyone that has helped make this possible. The Ribbit (https://www.ribbitradio.org/) app will be available on both platforms as our initial release. Do you know of an open source application that needs a home? Get in touch at hello@openresearch.institute and let’s talk. We want to share our platform and support applications that help open source and amateur radio. QSO Today Ham Expo Spotlight We hope to see you again at QSO Today Ham Expo, 25-26 March 2023. If you haven’t gotten a ticket yet, please visit https://www.qsotodayhamexpo.com/ This is a wonderful event that showcases the best parts of amateur radio. The theme for this Ham Expo is “New License - Now What?” Recordings will be available on the Ham Expo platform for a month, and then will be available on YouTube for anyone to view. ORI will volunteer at the March 2023 QSO Ham Expo session and will have technical presentations, a booth, and poster sessions at the Autumn 2023 QSO Today Ham Expo. Jay Francis in QEX Please see page 20 of the March/April 2023 issue of QEX magazine (http://www.arrl.org/qex) for an article co-authored by Jay Francis, our AmbaSat Re-Spin team lead. Excellent job, Jay! Pierre W4CKX has declared his candidacy for ORI Board of Directors We welcome Pierre’s interest in being a member of the board. Pierre is the Ribbit project lead. He brings broad industry knowledge, experience in Agile project management, a commitment to ethical leadership, and innovative energy. Learn about all our directors at https://www.openresearch.institute/board-of-directors/ Are you interested in supporting work at ORI? Consider being part of the board. We’d like to expand from 5 to 7 members in order to better serve our projects and community. We’ve got lots going on with Opulent Voice, Haifuraiya, AmbaSat Respin, and regulatory work. We support IEEE in many ways, one of which is logistics support with technical presentations such as “Advances in AI for Web Integrity, Ethics, and Well Being” by Srijan Kumar PhD. Video recording of his talk can be found here. () Thank you from everyone at ORI for your continued support and interest! Whatever will we do for our April 1st newsletter? Want to be a part of the fun? Get in touch at ori@openresearch.institute
