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The (Free Software SDR) Year

in Review

GNU Radio● Change in organization

structure: Johnathan Corgan has stepped down after 12+ years (many thanks!)

● See more of Marcus, Nate, Andrej, Nathan, Derek, Bastian, Phil, and others

● Ben still in charge, Martin still officer of the foundation, more people are stepping up to manage dev work

GRCon ‘17● Biggest conference dedicated

fully to open source software radio

● Biggest GRCon yet, over 300 SDR enthusiasts

● San Diego, California● All videos are available online● Publications available online,

as well

DARPA Hackfest● ...and drone hacking

competition● Drones flying around on NASA

campus● Mountain View, CA● Great keynotes (slides

available online)

SDR Academy ‘17● Part of Hamradio, in

Friedrichshafen, Germany● GNU Radio workshop● Published proceedings● Videos on YouTube● SDRA ‘18 already announced

Other events● Find SDR talks at many events● Local hackfests● Rohde & Schwarz Engineering

Competition● CCC (more on UPSat, too), GPN,

...● DEFCON (Wireless Village!),

Shmoocon, …● Cyberspectrum● Hackaday.com likes to talk about

SDR and -events

Who’s playing?● A lot of SDR players these days!● GNU Radio, Osmocom, OAI,

OSRT, Libre Space Foundation, RTL-SDR community, Pothos, vendors of SDR hardware, vendors of RF ICs, government agencies, universities, hackerspaces, ...

New Hardware● PlutoSDR● LimeSDR Mini● USRP N310 (almost)● ...probably forgot some more

Devroom Logistics● We will stick to the schedule!● The room can only take so many people, so apologies if we have to leave you

standing outside● The last 30 minutes we’ll keep the mic open in case anyone wants to present

anything spontaneously

Let’s get cracking!