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Meeting Minute - 2019-04-22

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:::info - Location: remote - Date: 2019-04-22 - Agenda 1. Inventory system 2. Cupboard 3. J5 4. Smallpiece 5. Anton still has some SRO stuff 6. Volunteers 7. Worksheets 8. Roadmap meeting 9. Camera dev 10. sro@soton.ac.uk 11. Cupboard reorgainsing 12. Asking for sponsoring kit - Participants: - Dan Trickey (DT) - Dan Hobson (DH) - Joseph Morton (JM) - Jack Williamson (JW) - Chair: DT dgt1g17@soton.ac.uk - Minutes: DH dsh1g18@soton.ac.uk - Minutes Archive: - Available here

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Review of action points

  • DT to check permissions on http://github.com/s-r-o/
  • Talk to MSLC
    • Postponed, JW to do
    • This is just to keep in touch, we would like to keep working with them in future
  • 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
    • brought forward

Agenda

  1. Inventory system
    • Is the same as last week
  2. Cupboard
    • ACTION POINT Kajatan to chase SR
  3. J5
    • ACTION POINT Kier to review PR
  4. Smallpiece

    • ACTION POINT: DECIDE ON GAME!
      • Print some rules
    • Doodle poll for a Hackday to be done
    • ACTION POINT Workshops to be written / organised
    • ACTION POINT get timetable for Smallpiece
      • ACTION POINT write time plan for our bits
    • Will using ultrasonic sensors cause interfere between robots? If this is going to be a problem, what can we do about it?
    • ACTION POINT testing robots in worst cases
      • flat battery
      • multiple ultrasounds simultaneusly
      • regulators testing from last year's issues
    • Equipment:
      • Chalk line
        • would be nice to use if anyone knows how to (failed at SR comp)
      • Spreadsheet here
    • Where are we going to put teams during the competition?
      • bar 2
      • level ⅔/4
      • cafe
      • bar 3?
      • Need to run power and network for displays etc
      • ACTION POINT talk to tyler
    • ACTION POINT decide on task allocation system and implement
      • Github seems to be the favourite, put on next week's agenda to ask others
  5. Anton still has some SRO stuff

    • ACTION POINT ask next week
  6. Volunteers
    • need more
    • poster work to continue
  7. Worksheets
    • Updates have been made to worksheets here
  8. Roadmap meeting
    • Allocated to 29th April @ 7pm-9pm
      • Main plan is to get dev work back up
      • Agenda here
  9. Camera dev
    • ACTION POINT DH to email jeff hooker about access to B16
  10. sro@soton.ac.uk
    • easy to assume each other have responded
    • DT looking at ticket based system
    • improve filters
  11. Cupboard reorgainsing
    • happening tomorrow / Wed
  12. ACTION POINTS ask for sponsoring kit
    • Getting sponsorships is always good, particularly when we're doing kit dev
    • Spreadsheet of potential options here
    • ACTION POINT draft emails
      • focus on ROI
        • and actually deliver on any promises unlike last year!
      • Compile email fragments on a hackmd so someone with sro@soton.ac.uk access can send them

ACTION POINTS

  • [name=JW] : Talk to MSLC
    • This is just to keep in touch, we would like to keep working with them in future
  • [name=DT] : Make a doodle poll for a Hackday for Smallpiece stuff
    • brought forward
  • [name=Kajatan] : Chase SR about the cupboard
  • [name=Kier] to Review PR for J5
  • Assorted ACTION POINTS for Smallpiece Hackday to be considered then
  • [name=Anton] : still has some SRO stuff
  • [name=DH] : Email jeff hooker about access to B16
  • Draft emails for sponsorships
  • Talk to tyler about Smallpiece kit

Notes