Guidelines for new members

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Joining the team

As an open source project, Team FREDNET is open for anyone to join.

To join as a contributing team member, the first steps are to figure out what you want access to.

The main systems that you might want to access are:

  • (a) the Team FREDNET GLXP Wiki
  • (b) the Team FREDNET Forum
  • (c) the Google-code repository where blueprints are stored, documents are managed, and task development is tracked. When you are working within a group they will provide you access to every Google-code project you require.
  • (d) and Team FREDNET Second Life studies for personel training using virtual reality.

The links below will guide you through the process of requesting access to each of these systems. 

 Team FREDNET Wiki Account Creation
 Team FREDNET Forum Account Creation
 Project repositories
   http://code.google.com/p/moon-20/
   http://code.google.com/p/teamfrednet-alto/
   http://code.google.com/p/teamfrednet-art/
   http://code.google.com/p/teamfrednet-gap/
   http://code.google.com/p/teamfrednet-lander/
   http://code.google.com/p/teamfrednet-lego/
   http://code.google.com/p/teamfrednet-mockups/
 Team FREDNET group inside SL

Getting involved

Hanging out on the forum is great and fun, but we also need help to build our systems. The best way to gain a overview of what the goals of the projects are is to read the Google Lunar X-Prize Requirements4.0 in progress. To get a high-level view of the work Team FREDNET has been doing is to check out the System Overview article. For an overview at the highest of levels, point your browser at the Team FREDNET Wikipedia article and enjoy a nice quick read.

When you're ready to get involved there are several options:

  • Contact a group leader within the area you want to work in.
  • Look at the open tasks at the Organization portal.
  • See what other people are working on and ask if you can help.
  • Read the latest posts in the forum to see if you can share your ideas.

Guidelines for Participation

When you are ready to get involved and know where, we recommend you take a decision about how many time you will dedicate each week and be constant with your decision. A good group is formed for many people which dedicates few hours a week but they were constant since the beginning in time and enthusiasm. Experience shows that people involved many hours a day without be paid trend to burned and quited it self and this is what we don't want; we want you enjoy your collaboration with Team FREDNET. Depending on what you're going to try to do to participate, several of these guidelines may be appropriate to read through.

Target Audience Comments
Guidelines for participation Everybody General information for all Team FREDNET contributors. If you haven't read this, please take a minute to go over there and peruse through it.
Guidelines for new members All new members This is the current page. You've already found it and by this point you're well aware of basic information needed so you can begin to contribute.
Guidelines for working in the wiki Wiki editors These are some basic "rules" that you should know if you want to make any changes on the Team FREDNET Wiki site.
Guidelines for tasks Task leaders, task contributors "Working" on Team FREDNET means joining a task as a contributor to help the task leader develop requirements, design, or prototyped systems. If no task leader has volunteered for an open task, you can take the initiative and assign that role to yourself and begin contributing to that task or building a team of contributors. In either case, reading the task guidelines is important.
Guidelines for using Launchpad Google-code Launchpad.net Google-code Users and Administrators This page has specific information for making use of setting up new pages, blueprints, and bugs on Launchpad. Administrative functions such as setting up new subprojects and subteams are also covered.
Guidelines for status reports Team leaders This *was* a guide for team leaders, though as of July 2009 it's listed as "not in force".
Guidelines for work packages Task leaders, Team leaders Work packages are collections of tasks that need to be managed as a group. People working in these roles should be knowledgeable about these guidelines.
Guidelines for software development Software contributors Team FREDNET is an open-source project for winning the Google Lunar X-Prize, so that means there will be lots of open source software. This page describes the expectations.
Guidelines for writing articles Community managers, team memebers Guidelines for publishing information intended for sharing with the press or (more broadly) pushing anything to the general internet.
Guidelines for live videos Community managers, team memebers Guidelines for broadcasting regular weeekly live shows.
Guidelines for building vehicles team members Guidelines for build Team FREDNET vehicles not space qualified

The Organizational Matrix 

Team FREDNET is a 3D matrix:
  1. group task (Rover, Lander, et cetera)
  2. qualification (Software, Hardware, et cetera)
  3. location (California, Spain, et cetera).

The idea of breaking out location is a novel suggestion that might help improve the team in the same way Local LUGs benefit Ubuntu. (Rob)

The Team FREDNET Organization Chart lists the different process areas and has updated contact information for the current leaders of each of the working groups.

Team FREDNET Subgroups

tf(x) Space Segment Ground Segment User Segment
System Launcher Lunar Bus Lunar Lander Lunar Rovers Ground Support Systems Community
Consultants
Business
Subsystems
  • Structural Design
  • Power system
  • Propulsion
  • TT&C
  • ...
  • Structural Design
  • Power System
  • Propulsion
  • Imaging System
  • Communications
  • ...
N/A N/A
Completed*) 30% 20% 40% 60% 10% 10%
Report
in brief 		Trade study
in progres 		Engine
selection 		Mockup in
progress 		WRV1 and
PicoRover
selected for
the mission 		Looking for
help on the
review and
definition of
the GSS API 		Mission simulation
and training
in progress
Leaders
Responsibles 		Mike Barrucco
Dave Masten 		Ryan Weed Monroe King Joshua tristancho
Joerg Schnyder 		John Pritchard
Gary Stevens 		Sim Zig
Survey Joe
Business Sean
Lego Thomas
*)NOTE: Completed percentage is a subjective measurement from my point of view. --Tristancho 03:37, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Edit Main Mission Status table

The next sections will follow this format:

  • What is this group for
  • Subgroups
  • How to contribute

The Propulsion Group

  • The Propulsion Group (also Space Segment) is focused on the development of all required vehicles and subsystems used within the Team FREDNET solution for reaching the surface of the Moon. We also have the responsibility for coordinating with the initial Launch Provider, as well as designing the complete spacecraft for the delivery of the Lunar Rover to the surface of the Moon.
  • If you want to contribute to the Propulsion Group, contact Ryan Weed. Membership within the Propulsion Group is managed by adding your name to the Members section of the Propulsion Group Wiki. There are several ongoing tasks going on within the Propulsion Group that are seeking new contributors, so if you'll want to talk to Ryan.

The Launch Provider Group

  • The launch provider group is in charge of study and contact launch providers. Also they study the possibility of a home made launcher.
  • Launch provider group don't has subgroups.
  • If you want to contribute to the launch provider group contact Mike Barrucco

The Lunar Bus Group

  • The lunar bus group is in charge of develop and build the lunar bus.
  • Lunar bus group don't has subgroups.
  • If you want to contribute to the lunar lander group contact Ryan Weed

The Lunar Lander Group

  • The lunar lander group is in charge of develop and build the lunar lander. They develop the design based on parallelism like Ryan's lunar lander and Monroe's Mark-I.
  • Lunar lander group don't has subgroups.
  • If you want to contribute to the lunar lander group contact Monroe King

The Rover Group

  • The Rover Group's main challenge is to design a wireless controlled and commanded rover that can be transported to the Lunar surface and execute several different tasks. Some of the main tasks of the rover group are to create the PicoRover (a Rover currently in prototyping phase), WRV1 (Wheel and Gear Design), involve students (Lego Mindstorms) and prepare Team FREDNET members to build the lunar rovers and the controll interface very soon.

The Ground Support Systems Group

  • The Ground Support Systems Group (also Ground Segment) is responsible for terrestrial (not flight) mission systems and operations in concert with the whole team. Ground mission systems interoperate with the terrestrial communications network for telemetry, telecommand and payload (TM/TC/PL) message routing, processing and storage, and public and mission user interfaces for TM/TC/PL data presentation and interaction.
  • The Ground Support Systems Group manages the Mission Data API, among other important functions.
  • If you want to contribute to the Ground Support Systems Group, contact John Pritchard and Brett Fishburne. Membership within the Ground Support Systems Group is managed by adding your name to the Members section of the Ground Support Systems Group Wiki. Before you do this, though, you should determine which element of the Ground Support System Group you want to contribute to including Software, MCS, Communication, Tracking, Simulation, and Testing.

The Survey Group

  • The Survey Group provides information about the space environment to Team FREDNET. The Survey Group performs space environment research for the mission on behalf of the rest of the team and documents its findings in our Wiki. This is accomplished by gleaning information from existing literature and by collating results of the team's own experiments and analyses.
  • The Survey Team is organized as a Working Group with the goal of organizing information for Team FREDNET. All Wiki pages related to the Survey Team should be marked as part of the Survey Portal and hasn't any soubgroup.
  • If you want to contribute to the Survey Group, contact Joe Kirk Thomas. Membership within the Survey Team is managed by adding your name to the Members section of the Survey Group Wiki. If you to propose a new study for the Survey Group to investigate (or maybe just to get a better feel for how the existing studies are organized), please first read Guidelines for Survey Group studies.

The Communications Group

  • The Communications group is in charge of test and provide radio-links qualified for space, able to meet the GLXP requirements for the Lunar Lander group or the Lunar Rover group. Typical tests in the Communication group uses open hardware (like Arduino) and involve distances from near space (Baloon Flight) to the Moon orbit (LRO listening radio).
  • Communications group has one subgroups: [Flights] group.

The Balloon Flight Group

  • The Balloon Flights group is in charge of test new components and technologies in near space.
  • Balloon Flight group hasn't any subgroups.

The Imagery Group

  • The Imagery group is in charge of test and provide cameras qualified for space, able to meet the GLXP requirements for the Lunar Lander group or the Lunar Rover group. The Imagery group manages one of our most important sponsors: Elphel Imaging Solutions. Also is in charge of make videos and simulations for promotional purposes or for trade studies without a license valid for fly.
  • Imagery group has one subgroups: Simulation group.

The Simulation Group

  • The Simulation group is in charge of train the Tem FREDNET members and provide tools for some specific trade studies or demosntations that Team FREDNET require such as make YouTube videos, video channel assistance and simulations for promotional purposes.
  • Simulation group hasn't any subgroups.

The Other Groups

Several other groups are in the organization phase of creation. The Business Group and the Education Group will eventually be organized to accomplish essential tasks necessary to win the Google Lunar X-Prize.

If you are interested in a leadership position for any of these tasks, contact Fred Bourgeois, Rich Core and Sean Casey for more information. We have more than 10 vacancies in the Team FREDNET Organization Chart and we need to fill them as soon as possible. This organization chart is in review process.

GLXP in brief

What is the Google Lunar X Prize (By Will Pomerantz)?

  1. $30,000,000 in cash prizes
    1. $20M 1st place
    2. $5M 2nd place
    3. $5M in Performance Bonuses
  2. Open to world-wide competition
  3. Privately financed teams must:
    1. Land a robot on surface of the Moon
    2. Explore the Moon by moving at least 500m (1/3 of a mile)
    3. Transmit two "Mooncast" packages of high definition video and imagery
  4. Bonuses encourage:
    1. Roving further along the lunar surface
    2. Visiting mand-made hardware
    3. Surviving a lunar night
    4. Diverse teams
    5. Finding water ice
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