Meeting 2018-01-29 Minutes¶
Things to announce¶
- Tech day this weekend
- Dave Oakley still hasn't confirmed level 2 :(
- He hasn't gotten back to us about it even though he said he would
- Action Point: Send an email to teams hopefully today (but it needs to be reviewed).
- Dave Oakley still hasn't confirmed level 2 :(
- RUBS
- SCRO has some boxes now
- 13* 18L
- 2 * 35L
- Summerschool updates
- Yvonne and Heather are in charge of Smallpeice this year.
- Replacing Rikki and Adriana
- Tyler will meet with them at some point to replace them.
- Yvonne and Heather are in charge of Smallpeice this year.
Thing to discuss¶
- Send an email about the Tech Days.
- Action Point: Send an email to teams hopefully today (but it needs to be reviewed).
- Tell them what's happening, we've got a location but are trying to find a better one.
- Science and engineering family day
- We're planning on running an event where students program robots to follow a maze.
- Blockly (like scratch, but builds code from prebuilt blocks we provide)
- Event is on the 10th of March.
- SSI event
- They're running a robotics event too. If we're at the same location, they could do the easy stuff and we could do the harder stuff?
- we can discuss with them about if we want to collaborate with them.
- Action point: order 7 t-shirts
- We're planning on running an event where students program robots to follow a maze.
- Discuss custom arduino firmware process (slightly related to https://github.com/sourcebots/robot-api/issues/49)
- Update shipping:
- We'll delay until Monday
- Test the hell out of it on Saturday!
- We'll ship Peter's PR which adds this feature.
- Needs full-stack testing
- Needs docs (Jake can probably do this)
- Action point: Kier to test it today.
- Update shipping:
- Discuss potential performance bottlenecks (https://github.com/sourcebots/robot-api/issues/51)
- Action Point: Benchmark the performance
- Things which are performance critical should be done on the arduino, not the pi. We shouldn't waste time on this
- Action Point: Benchmark the performance
- GDPR review
- Check spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_ChScj7CFdw0iKkNtS0E2B2llL1O0zUh22VybVb3_Gg/edit#gid=1784894503
- GDPR was updated.
- Action point: Fill in the remaining blanks
- Also fixing some issues.
Things to do¶
- EMF tickets
- go on sale in 10 minutes.
- Arrange mentoring
- 3 teams are interested in mentoring
- Action Point: Andy to send out a Doodle Poll.
- Platforms review
- Software: GitHub vs Trello vs Mailing list, etc...
- website platform review
- A decision was made to change the platform of the website again (Wordpress -> GH pages)
- Tyler is confused that this wasn't broadcast (wasn't in the minutes)
- Are the tradeoffs worth it?
- It's harder for non-techs to edit things on
GH-Pages
- GDPR affects both platforms equally, however Netlify isn't primarily in the UK (US based)
- Ship the new software
- Work out what needs to go on the update
- Action Point: Write a changelog with any potential breaking changes highlighted
- Action Point: Choose who should do what things.
- Action Point (Saturday): Roadmap on software
- Sort out the cupboard
- Order food
Misc¶
- Next bunfight - advertise to the audience
- Audience primarily to non-technical people at the SUSU bunfight, and to technical people at the FPSE bunfight