SRO Meeting agenda 2018-10-01¶
Freshers¶
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Bunfight Retrospective
- We shipped it and got about 155 signups!
- MiniBots demo worked well.
- We shouldn't have used the SR kit for the Tudor. Confusing for students.
- The cube didn't work.
- Anton: "The table cloth didn't match."
- We need to sort out posters and leaflets and misc crap beforehand,business cards.
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Activity Day
- Presentation - Who we are and what we do?
- ACTION POINT Kajetan to make intro presentation.
- Start off with the Lego, build up to line following.
- Then switch to the mbeds, with the worksheet.
- Social
- Artemis?
- Scoops?
- Pub?
- Wing it.
- Board Games.
- Jenny will attempt to get pizza.
- Presentation - Who we are and what we do?
Finance¶
- SUSU Funding
- Funding for all the things we asked for (batteries, vacuum, scaff gloves)
- Dan had a chat with Activities Person (Zone co-ordinator) at SUSU
- We fund half, susu funds half
- Mbeds are £150 each
- Sponsorship
- Applied for funding (emails shipped, Thales)
- Anton will send some more emails out to other companies.
- Contact ECS?
- Corporate responsibility
- Contact Joyce Lewis, contact list / funding.
- Re-establish relationship with Farnell. Ask Kier.
- The university has a good relationship with ARM. Robogals had some issues, probably not ARM. Remind them that they sponsored Robogals in the past.
- ACTION POINT Anton to get monies
Defining the future of SRO¶
- Discussion of redefining SourceBots to be an event rather than an organisation.
- SourceBots and MiniBots are "brands" of SRO
- SourceBots for older, MiniBots for younger?
- Classify activities by brand, so that there isn't duplication of branding in materials.
- Purchase of srobot.org?
- Newname srobot to similar to srobo.org (SR domain)
- Contains all of MB and SB and links to other websites
- Potential Domains:
- sro.bot
- Final Logo Decisions, cleanup svg files and commit to git
- ask nathan to finish them
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xcVI1lb5OPnbxy5zW63FOzwBvodWJ0-B
- Minibots - friendly logo + Forest Green-ish #0B821A
- SourceBots - Diode + Purple #4A0B9F
- SRO - Robot Arm #BC8C41
- Branding and colour style guides? Use Coolors / colormind / similar
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Separate Mailing list for SRO events
- Stop spamming on the SB one
- Mailchimp as annoucements + current google groups as discussion forum
- Suggestion - Move people from outside Southampton (SourceBots mailing list)
- Separate smallpiece mailing list
- Annouce in the mailing list that the mailing list has changed
- ACTION POINT Dan to setup new mailing lists and contact old one.
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G Suite
- ACTION POINT Henry to investigate.
Robogals¶
- Can we get rid of the old leaflets?
- Yes, they've gone. Kept a couple for historical purposes.
Smallpiece cleanup¶
- Carpet is now in 53 foyer and 32
- North end level 3
- Mugs need returning to Level 3 Zepler
- ACTION POINT Alex will move them to L3
- Expenses form needs filling in
- This is available on Slack
- Carpet tiles have finally been removed
- Probably binned
- SUSU needs paying
- Contact Heather / ECS
- ACTION POINT Poke Heather
- Certificates need sending
- Needs sending
- ACTION POINT Check this evening
- Missing orders (where are they?)
- Wheel hubs (backorder) - Arrived?
- Drill charger (wrong one)
- RUB trolley (no idea)
- ACTION POINT Kajetan and Dan will chase Shaun Ford
- Find Alistair's pen
- Probably can't find that now
- Buy a new one?
- £55.81
- Fix for next year, add items to the personal property list
- Meeting on Monday with Reena about Smallpeice 2019
- 10am Geoff Merrett's Office (L4 Mountbatten)
Non small piece¶
- Demo bot upgrades
- Make them collapsable
- ~Roughly £15-20 worth of parts
- https://www.screwfix.com/p/joint-connector-bolts-bzp-m6-x-35mm-50-pack/87106
- https://www.screwfix.com/p/insert-nuts-type-d-m6-x-13mm-50-pack/59937
- chissel to modify wood
- could also get some hinges to make them fold down rather than disasemble.
- What do we do with the Tudors?
- Blockly demos - but not much in the last year