[Ground-station] Reminder! Weekly reports

[Michelle Thompson]

Draft below! Submit your updates via pull request at
https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/blob/master/Management/Weekly_Engineering_Reports/2022/20221202-project-report.md
or let me know and I'll include it next chance I get. -Michelle

1) Ribbit

Organizational meetup for the next stage of work is "coming soon". The
mailing list is up and running, the presentations in Q4 2022 were
extremely successful, and the website has been updated. Check it out
here:

https://www.ribbitradio.org/

2) Transponder FPGA Work - Open Source HEO/GEO

Thank you to everyone helping out this past week!

Here's the video recording of our weekly FPGA meetup:
https://youtu.be/OoE0NY-xDlA

Here's the updated COBS Decoder design documentation:
https://github.com/phase4ground/adi_adrv9371_zc706/blob/adrv9371-zc706-dvbs2-integ/design_docs/cobs_decoder/COBS_dec-Entity-Design.md

Here's the plan for the rest of December:
Prove the COBS decoder can work with an independent  AXI implementation.
Defer error handling within COBS.
Integrate into the zc706 design.
HDL Coder of polyphase filter bank.
HDL Coder of FSK receiver.

3) Regulatory Work

ORI will be represented at the final FCC Technological Advisory
Committee meeting for 2022 on 8 December 2022. This meeting is hybrid
and will be broadcast as usual from the FCC website. Michelle Thompson
will co-chair the AI/ML Safe Uses sub-working group, attend as a
member of the AI/ML Working Group, and report back on the work of all
other groups represented in TAC. Thank you to everyone that helped us
contribute.

Please read our two AI/ML reports from this week below:

https://www.openresearch.institute/2022/12/04/will-i-lose-my-programming-job-to-ai-ml/

https://www.openresearch.institute/2022/12/03/ai-vs-human-chatgpt-vs-ori-open-source-designers/

4) Karen Rucker - Director Emeritus

Thank you to Karen Rucker for serving ORI as Director for the past two
years. Karen has stepped down due to her increasing workload at Ball
Aerospace and the demands of graduate school. She has been
instrumental in ORI's success over the past two years providing
leadership, direction, humor, and spine. Karen, along with Ben
Hilburn, are recognized as Directors Emeritus by ORI. This is an
honorary position that indicates our deep respect and appreciation for
their service.

Karen writes, "I'm continually impressed at the progress that ORI has
made... I wholeheartedly believe in the values and goals that ORI
strives for - and if there is any way I can help in the future, please
let me know."

It's safe to say we all feel the same way in return.

We'd like to keep the number of people on our Board of Directors at 5,
or more. If you've been thinking about serving the organization as a
Director, then please consider yourself invited to apply. Send a
letter of introduction and any other credentials you think might be
relevant (a resume, portfolio, or recommendations) to hello at
openresearch dot institute. The time requirements are not onerous, but
they are non-trivial. Ethics is prioritized and a familiarity with
Agile Frameworks and variants is a plus.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 3:49 AM Michelle Thompson
<mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you to all our volunteers! It's an honor to get to support your work.
>
> Please send in any updates for the weekly report, either here or on Slack.
>
> -mdt