Hi everyone Please see email below from Charles Cooper, the president of the astronomical society here in Hamilton, looking for volunteers (I don't think so that he will turn away non-students!). If you are interested, please contact me off-list and I can put you in touch. Cheers, Peter === Hi Alvin Hope all is well with you and the team. Quick email to reach out to ask if you would be able to point me in the right direction regarding getting some CS students engaged in supporting the current telescope software upgrades at the Hamilton Observatory. I'm the president of the society, outside of my other jobs and we are currently renovating and repairing the custom, 24" Telescope built by members in the 90s. The scope hardware is now back up and running and we are working with some of our members to get the software in place to be able to steer the scope. We are 80% of the way there and I'm trying to get it finished off but we're in need of some volunteers with a background in Arduino and C (simplified arduino C++ not fully fledged C) that can help us finalise the code. We're a volunteer organisation so there is no payment we're all just working towards getting the scope up and running again. We have 2 devs / technical people working on the scope code but they only have so much time between them so I said that I would reach out to the uni to see if any student's might be interested. Potentially we could offer reduced fees on events or memberships as an incentive but we are hoping that the project is interesting enough to attract some attention. If any of your students have an interest in astronomy it would be a good way to get involved with the society and meet some like minded people. There is a git repo and 2 lead devs to help with the onboarding / learning process. Any assistance you could provide would be much appreciated. cheers Charlie -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 577-5304 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/