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[djellison]

Below - details of the hinted at talk I'm giving at JPL in a couple of weeks. Local UMSFers are welcome to come along - it'd be nice if I could give an idea of numbers ahead of time, so if you think you can make it - drop me an email ( djellison@mac.com ) and I'll let those that need to know, know. Sadly, my schedule for the two days I'm in LA is so packed, that I can't really envisage the sort of meet up you guys enjoyed when Stu popped over - but it'd be great to see whoever can make it!

CALTECH MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (CMA)
A Leadership Forum
presents
Bootleg Postcards: Unofficial Biographies of Robotic Spacecraft
with
Doug Ellison
Creator and Site Administrator, Unmannedspaceflight.com
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
4:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., von Karman Auditorium, JPL

Since the landings of Spirit and Opportunity in 2004 and the rapid web
release of every image they take, an enthusiastic online community of
amateur scientists has formed around the rovers and other robotic space
missions. This community has developed tools, tricks, and techniques to
make the most of every image and track the progress of our robotic
envoys creating mosaics and videos that have been referred to as “bootleg
postcards.”

Space exploration aficionado Doug Ellison is a multimedia producer by day,
and founding administrator of the well-respected "Unmannedspaceflight.com"
forum by night. Join us as he presents a history of the web-faring,
space-data-sharing community, highlights some of its achievements, and
explains why the new way to reach out . . .is to let people in.

Doug Ellison's passion is science communication. In particular, he has a
unique perspective on the outreach activities of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration and the European Space Agency, and on the
collective power of armchair enthusiasts from around the world who have
reveled in the remarkable science returns from ventures such as the Mars
Exploration Rover and Cassini missions.

As an ambassador for the amateur space imaging community, Mr. Ellison has
given many lectures on the rovers and other Mars missions to schools, local
astronomy societies, and the British Astronomical Association. He produced
Rover Audio Updates with Jim Bell for The Planetary Society website, has
presented to scientists at Cornell University and the Europlanet
conference, has written for The Planetary Report, and has been interviewed
on The Planetary Society’s Planetary Radio program and The Sky at Night BBC
television series.

These events are free. All members of the Campus and JPL communities and
retirees are welcome. Caltech personnel and guests can access von Karman
Auditorium via the external gate.

They must be talking about someone else

[jamescanvin]

It's not up yet. But remember that .pdf versions of the Planetary Report are put up in the members section of the society website.

Got my copy in the post yesterday - great to see UMSF in print.

[climber]

Got my copy in the post yesterday - great to see UMSF in print.

So did I!
Nice also to see names of "ours" wizards & route mapers!

[djellison]

Does anyone have a .pdf version of that article ?

Want to read it - get the magazine. That's sort of the point. Sorry Phil.

[lyford]

If I may, allow me to post some Bootleg Postcards of the JPL Presentation: Unofficial Photojournalism of the UMSF Master:







More to Come!

[lyford]

And the crowd goes wild!





Actually, there were quite a few in attendance; this was taken during the sound check.
But I thought it would be fitting to do a panorama in the place that holds so much history, and provide photographic proof of Mr. Ellison's Adventures.

[mhoward]

Great panorama! That is one impressive room. Well it's not the room that's impressive, I guess, so much as the models.

[lyford]

Yes, it is quite awesome. From Left to right - Half size MRO, Full Size Voyager, Cambot , Full Size Doug, Half Size Cassini, Full Size Huygens, barely visible on the floor.

[nprev]

Here's a goodie. From L to R: Lyford, Doug, my wife Kay (behind the MER!), ElkGroveDan, me, RoverDriver.

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[RoverDriver]

...
Actually, there were quite a few in attendance; this was taken during the sound check.
...

The time slot used for this presentation was quite odd (4:45pm) with most of the people already on their way out. Doug did his presentation at Caltech during lunchtime. Usually it is the other way around, noon at JPL and in the evening at Caltech. I have no idea why they arranged it this way.

Paolo

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Did JPL make a video of the lecture ?

[nprev]

They did, actually, with professional equipment I might add. Don't know the whens or ifs about any release, though; hopefully Doug can enlighten us when he's through traveling.

[RoverDriver]

Did JPL make a video of the lecture ?

JPL TV taped the lecture in HD. They als recorded the display and they are probably doing the editing right now. MER should get a copy of the edited version and am quite sure Doug will get a copy too. Maybe they will put it on a public web site.

Paolo

[djellison]

JPL TV taped the lecture in HD.

HD!! You'll be able to see the beads of sweat when I was waiting for the slides to go catastrophically wrong

If I get a copy, I'll get it online in some way - Vimeo, Youtube etc.

[djellison]

DVD is on its way- once I've got it - I'll get it uploaded

[djellison]

Not the best quality - but it'll have to do I'm afraid - it's converting at Vimeo now - should be ready in half an hour or so

http://vimeo.com/4361503