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09/22/08--18:37: Introduction to Team FREDNET (chan 1393043)

Team FREDNET is a group of scientists, technologists, and engineers who are using their combined talents to create a timely and elegant solution to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE.

Team FREDNET is going to the Moon, the Engineering Project of a Lifetime!

Team FREDNET: the First and Only 100% Open Source Competitor for the Google Lunar X Prize.

 Team FREDNET is a Tax Exempt 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Corporation.




03/22/09--21:22: In The News (chan 1393043)

 "Going to the Moon isn't something that should be strictly the domain of governments.  It's something that needs to be open to the people because a free people demand a new frontier; we need to have some place we can go. Right now, there aren't many new places we can go on Earth.  So we have to open up that [space] frontier and make it available to the rest of the world, that is to all of us [the people] as opposed to the governments that are over us."

Fred Bourgeois on Evadot Podcast #47

Team FREDNET Board Appoints Chief Operating Officer, Press Release, 2010/11/09.


Evadot, Evadot Podcast #47 - An interview with Team FREDNET, MIchael Doornbos,Press Release, 2010/10/27.

NASA Awards Contract to Team FREDNET, Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender, Press Release, 2010/10/21.

CEO of Team FREDNET joins Anametrix Advisory Board, Press Release, 2010/08/18.

Team FREDNET, Air and Space Education Consortium Partnership, Press Release, 2010/07/19.

New Scientist, Rovers rev up for Google's moonshot jackpot (with Image Gallery), Lisa Grossman, 2009/08/11.

The Space Show, Team FREDNET on the Space Show for the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11, Dr. David Livingston, 2009/07/20.

Evadot, Evadot Podcast #4 - An interview with Team FREDNET, MIchael Doornbos, 2009/07/01.

Asia Times Online, Lunar Prize Sets Asian Hearts Racing, Peter J. Brown, 2009/04/03.

John Fowler of KTVU Fox 2 (Oakland, CA) interview with Fred Bourgeois, 2009/03/22.

Control Engineering Magazine, Two Wheel Robot Shoots for the Moon, 2009/01/20.

Technovelgy, JALURO Lunar Robot - 2-Wheeled Open Source

Linux Devices,  Open Source Project Races to the Moon, (Front Page) 2008/12/18

Robocon Magazine #58 (Japan), 2008/07/01

Popular Mechanics, Meet the First 10 Teams in the Google Lunar X Prize, June 2008.

Popular Mechanics, Debating NASA vs. DIY Rocketeers, Lunar Real Estate and the Open-Source X Prize: My Own Private Space PODCAST, Matt Sullivan, 2008/05/12.





03/22/09--21:42: Team FREDNET Promo Video (chan 1393043)

 Team FREDNET Promo Video

This short promotional video gives an overview of early conceptual designs for our Open Source Space Systems.




03/22/09--21:48: Sponsors (chan 1393043)

Sponsors

We need YOU to help get us to the Moon!

Financial support for this adventure is being provided by:

Applios Inc -- Applied Open Source Technologies - Software & Systems Development Experts

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Commercial and Educational Partners

Partner-level support through provision of equipment and facilities is being provided by:

Air and Space Education Consortium at Broward College

Elphel Inc.

Hurricane Electric Internet Services

Robot Club of Traverse City - Devoted to the Exploration of Robotics

 

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All sponsors will have their names and/or logos prominently displayed here - and on the Moon, of course.
Drop us an e-mail at      if you would like to become a part of history.




03/24/09--14:36: Team FREDNET - Three Teams, Many Goals, One Primary Mission (chan 1393043)

Three Teams, Many Goals, One Primary Mission

 

Team FREDNET attempts to do several things that no organization has successfully done before, and that requires some innovation.  Innovation often starts in chaos.  The chaos makes us aware of needs, which in turn spark ideas of how to meet those needs with various solutions.  Those solutions in turn generate


06/30/09--09:34: Forum Registration (chan 1393043)

Most of our Team Members got started with Team FREDNET by joining our Forum.  We've recently changed the method for registration though, so this short article should help you to create your forum account.  It is quite simple, just four short steps.

1. First, send an email to telling the New User Manager your preferred username for the forum.
2. You should receive a reply within 24-48 hours confirming your username and providing you with an initial password.
3. Go to the Forum and login with the provided username / password.
4. Change your password to something secure that you can remember.

While most areas of our Forum can be browsed by anyone (even guests), only registered users are allowed to post relevant content.