Sneaky Peak and Some Love to Spread (CTI)

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Hello Potential Community Trainers,

I'm a firm believer that we make our own destiny. I also believe that if you surround yourself with people whose Venn diagram of goals align with yours great things happen. With that in mind we started DSH Workshops and GDevCon. Our common belief at DSH Workshops is that the market for LabVIEW will grow if people gets better at LabVIEW. This is why we have been putting so much effort into the Community Training Initiative. The team we put together for this shares this goal and in Derrick Bommarito's case expands on it. Derrick want's to see more hardware available to the hobbyist (and bring people into the LabVIEW world like that). Derrick is the brains behind the Raspberry Pi Pico firmware.

Sustainable altruism has to have some reward for the altruist IMO. For DSH Workshops we want a bigger pool of programmers to support. LabVIEW grows when projects are successful!.

I really, really wanted GCentral to be a part of the CTI, to me it fits their mission perfectly and they have an NI presence on their board. It gave us a load of advantages, but I also think it is good for GCentral as an organisation. I think it's a true win-win.

And boy, are they doing good work behind the scenes. It was a real multi-disciplinary effort. Christian Butcher was working on the hosting of the VM, Q was in logo design, Chris Cilino on website. The whole team has been challenging the vision and testing the VMs. So share some love with Enrique Noe if you prefer VMWare to Virtualbox.

Speaking of Logos... here's a sneaky peak!

While I'm giving out thanks, I'd like to call out the CTI team - excellent support and feedback, people giving up their valuable time for the community.

And let's not forget NI - Nancy Henson, Eric Reffett and Darren Nattinger have really got behind this and it wouldn't have been possible without LabVIEW Community edition.

Finally (and she'll hate me for this), I'd like to thank my lovely daughter Poppy for all the hard work she put into the manual and examples, turns out it was a good way for her to learn LabVIEW.

I quite fancy doing a ride-along on zoom if people are interested.

VM can now be downloaded here - https://downloads.gcentral.org/vm/20231021_OpenSUSE_CTIBase.ova

Attached to this post is a PDF of setting up instructions.

If you want to play with the hardware you can get it from here..

USA and UK Suppliers -

https://www.pishop.us/product/pico-breadboard-kit/

https://thepihut.com/products/analog-test-board

https://www.waveshare.com/analog-test-board.htm

https://thepihut.com/products/breadboard-kit-for-raspberry-pi-pico

For those buying in the US, Tim (crossrulz) found the Pico and breadboard on Digikey

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC0917/16608257

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/sb-components-ltd/SKU20843/16836965

Check with https://www.gcentral.org/about-gcentral

A CTI landing page will be available soon.

If you want your company name associated with a very worthy cause, why not sponsor making LabVIEW training available to all via GCentral

Finally let's talk about Open-source. We have made everything open-source, we want it to grow and mutate. Our Github repo is here, join up and add materials.

https://github.com/LabVIEWCommunityTraining

And finally to set expectations - this is an early sneak peak of the proto-type. Let's try it out and make improvements. We have ambitions for this!

Also it is aimed at doing hosted training events - not really aimed at free unattended training, although we don't mind if you do start your LabVIEW journey this way.

Lots of Love