Announcing the inaugural event of the South Indian SDR User Group this Saturday July 24

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DESCRIPTION:The South Indian SDR User Group (SI-SDR-UG) was founded in January 2021, and is a community of people, from novices to experts, spanning industry, academia, and government, who are interested in the design and implementation of Software-Defined Radio (SDR) technology and systems. This includes such diverse areas such as RF, digital signal processing (DSP), wireless communications, operating systems, computer networking, software development and optimization, machine learning, and radio hardware. The mission of our community is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and enable greater collaboration within the SDR community in India. We host a regular technical workshops and gatherings, and we also run a dedicated Slack workspace for the community. We have a YouTube channel for recordings of past events, and a GitHub page for any relevant code. Our Twitter feed contains announcements about events and other news relevant to the community. We are not focused or tied to any one single software tool, hardware platform, commercial vendor, or specific technology. The SI-SDR-UG is non-profit, and the people on the organizing committee are all volunteers. We are based in Bangalore, but we invite people from all throughout India, as well as from outside India, to join our community. Please reach out to us on Slack or by email if you have any questions or comments. Thank you!
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LOCATION:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy04XwXPMDVUucWYYvwg-Yg
SUMMARY:19:00 - 19:15 -- Opening Remarks, Introductions, Community Announcements
19:15 - 20:00 -- "Introduction to GNU Radio Series, Part 1" by Neel Pandeya
20:00 - 20:45 -- "Introduction to ML Series, Part 1" by Rohan Sundar
20:45 - 21:30 -- "Silice, a language for hardcoding algorithms into FPGA hardware" by Sylvain Lefebvre
21:30 - 22:15 -- Closing Remarks
URL:https://www.softwaredefinedradio.in/events
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We would like to announce the inaugural event of the South Indian SDR User Group (SI-SDR-UG)!

The South Indian SDR User Group (SI-SDR-UG) was founded in January 2021, and is a community of people, from novices to experts, spanning industry, academia, and government, who are interested in the design and implementation of Software-Defined Radio (SDR) technology and systems. This includes such diverse areas such as RF, digital signal processing (DSP), wireless communications, operating systems, computer networking, software development and optimization, machine learning, and radio hardware. The mission of our community is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and enable greater collaboration within the SDR community in India. We host regular technical workshops and gatherings, and we also run a dedicated Slack workspace for the community. We have a YouTube channel for recordings of past events, and a GitHub page for any relevant code. Our Twitter feed contains announcements about events and other news relevant to the community. We are not focused or tied to any one single software tool, hardware platform, commercial vendor, or specific technology. The SI-SDR-UG is non-profit, and the people on the organizing committee are all volunteers. We are based in Bangalore, but we invite people from all throughout India, as well as from outside India, to join our community.

Our first event will be held on Saturday July 24 at 19:00 (India time), and will be streamed live on our YouTube account.

We still have an open slot for one more presentation in the event, and we would like to offer it to the community.  You can reply to this email with an abstract of your talk, it should not exceed 30 minutes of duration followed by a 15 minute Q&A section. If you would be interested in speaking at the event, on Saturday July 24, sometime between 19:00 and 23:00 (India time), then please get in touch with us, we would be very interested in having you.

Please see our website for more information about the event agenda, as well as links to our Slack workspace and YouTube account.

https://www.softwaredefinedradio.in/

You can watch our first event on our YouTube channel at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy04XwXPMDVUucWYYvwg-Yg

Join our Slack workspace to ask questions and interact with other attendees:
http://si-sdr-ug.slack.com/

We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday July 24!

Thanks and regards,

Rohan Sundar

Organizing Committee SI-SDR-UG