Numbers differ depending on where you look, but there are approximately 8000 man-made objects in a stable orbit around the Earth.  Approximately 3000 of those are active satellites(1), chattering away in orbit with countless languages and formats.  ”Sir Ron” Nash is working on making a system to help keep track of them himself at hack.rva. [...]

Yesterday hack.rva had its first public-facing class at its current location.  The hackerspace was full, and we had a great time (at least I did). The goal for any workshop or class is to share information and look at new things. I think we accomplished that and more. Several attendees set up the supplied Fedora [...]