May 2020 LUGG meeting recap

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May 26, 2020 

LUGG Meeting 

• Introduction 
  • New NI representative - Danielle Mysliwiec (danielle.mysliwiec@ni.com) 
  • NI updates in COVID era  
  • June 16th NI announcement – virtual event:  https://events.ni.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKFormID=0x4627844f94 
  • May 28th What’s new in LabVIEW 2020 (link to recorded session:  https://natinst.de/2020/Webinar%20What%27s%20New%20in%20LabVIEW%20NXG%205.0%20and%20LabVIEW%202020%2...) 

• Open the floor for comments or share projects and/or challenges working from home 
  • Brian Bean - https://forums.ni.com/t5/Quick-Drop-Enthusiasts/Paste-CSV-Excel-to-Controls-Constants/gpm-p/4044146?profile.... 
  • https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Shortcut-Menu-Plug-Ins/Paste-Delimited-Text-llb/tac-p/4047065#M446 
  • NI COVID information - https://www.ni.com/en-us/landing/covid-19-enable-engineers.html 
  • Jorg Hampel has a blog entry on source control issues - https://www.hampel-soft.com/blog/separate-compiled-code-from-source/ 
  • COSMOS - https://cosmosrb.com/ 
  • Steve Marlow has driver library for CCSDS 
  • Mike Rodriguez has a LabVIEW script to open all library nodes 
• Suggestions for next meeting content 
  • Greg Cala - DSH Pragmatic Software Engineering Workshop 
  • NIST is considering hosting a workshop 
    • Two from my team in Boulder, CO are planning to attend at GDevConNA in October. 
    • Release Automation Tools for LabVIEW - NIST has recently purchased a license 
  • Jorg Hampel – GitLab demo 
• Other notes 
  • Space X uses LabVIEW! 
    • https://forums.ni.com/t5/Example-Code/Space-X-Rube-Goldberg-Machine-Code/ta-p/3491473?profile.langua... 
    • https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer-and-software-is-used-by-the-falcon-9/ 
  • Jason Behr just completed the Free CLAD cert they were offering. Noted that the PSI exam does NOT work with the ACES laptop because they have the cookies blocked, so a personal computer (with camera) is required. 
  • If anyone needs a tutorial for Microsoft Teams, let me know and I can dig one up.