Meeting Minute - 2019-04-15¶
tags: Meeting
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:::info - Location: B53/4025, remote - Date: 2019-04-15 - Agenda 1. Inventory system 2. Emails with Dorota 3. J5 4. Smallpiece boards 5. HR Robocon 6. SR Competition 7. SR / Cupboard 8. SUSU Awards 9. Volunteers 10. Camera module 11. Outreach stuff
- Participants:
- Dan Trickey (DT)
- Dan Hobson (DH)
- Joe Morton (JM)
- Kier Davis (KD)
- Kajatan Champlewski (KC)
- Jack Williamson (JW)
- Tyler Ward (TW)
- Chair: DT dgt1g17@soton.ac.uk
- Minutes: DH dsh1g18@soton.ac.uk
- Minutes Archive: - Available here
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Agenda¶
- Inventory
- Good progress
- Emails
- We can write something for the internal newsletter
- We don't want carpet tiles
- too long to set up
- wear more
- space for carpet roll in the new cupboard but tricky to use it
- still struggling on large wood storage issue
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J5
- Back on schedule after new version released
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Smallpiece boards
- Joyce might be able to find us the money we need for it
- Need to get a detailed breakdown
- ~£6k-£8k total cost
- Will we get enough?
- There is some SR kit we are allow to use too / as backup plan
- We need to start doing tasks for the competition now
- Trello here
- Spreadsheet here
- Get things ordered ASAP when we know what we need
- Don't know when we're getting bugdet
- Hackday? TODO:Doodle poll
- Joyce might be able to find us the money we need for it
- HR Robocon
- They want to be able to expand to multiple events across the country
- SourceBots could be involved
- Targeting GCSE / younger students
- JM to keep us updated
- They have a nice web IDE they're using
- We can fork
- They want to be able to expand to multiple events across the country
- SR Competition
- General positive sentiment
- HR team felt it was for our benefit not theirs
- "the lighting was inadequate"
- Libkoki can handle this
- "carpet was different from last years"
- They want carpet samples
- "Didn't like the Griptape"
- It's the same as it always has been
- "Rules changed"
- A rule was clarified, should have been earlier and this could have been prompted by them
- The caldera was not quite to spec
- "This game didn't incentivise complex behaviour"
- Some teams didn't need use the camera
- We want to accomodate all
- Hopefully future games will be better
- JM to feed back
- "the lighting was inadequate"
- Return of our kit(?)
- Need to check this did actually get back to the cupboard
- Overworking
- No free slots for some people
- "Too few volunteers"
- SR / Cupboard
- Need an agreement for shared assets like cupboard space
- 2 RUBs of their kit to check out
- SUSU Awards
- 10th May
- We are nominated for best team
- who's going?
- DT nominated for social impact
- Volunteers
- Need more
- Can we pick up volunteers from SR
- Camera module
- Need to populate boards
- Need to get access to building 16
- Outreach stuff
- Ran a MicroBit session
- ~30 students
- Generally successful
- STUDENTS CHARGED £25 EACH BUT WE DIDN'T SEE ANY OF IT
- Worksheet to go to SRO github #TODO link
- Reran with feedback
- Students with a bit more time+experience
- Went well
- MSLC involved, LOOK TO PARTNER WITH THEM? #TODO
- We still don't have enough MicroBits for a session
- Get budget approved?
- Use MSLC's?
- Ask Micro:Bit for sponsorship?
- Ran a MicroBit session
- RUBBots
- Chassis to use SourceBots kit on outreach days
- Fit in RUBs for storage
- With threaded inserts for deconstructing and packing as space-efficient
ACTION POINTS¶
- DT to check permissions on http://github.com/s-r-o/
- Talk to MSLC
- JW to Move MicroBit worksheet into http://github.com/s-r-o/
- Add link to minutes too please
- DT to make a doodle poll for a Hackday for Smallpiece stuff