Meeting Minute - 2019-10-11¶
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:::info - Location: 53/4025 - Date: 2019-10-11 - Agenda 1. Freshers events 2. Jamboree 3. SP2020 4. Cupboard move 5. AOB - Participants: - Dan Trickey (DT) - Dan Hobson (DH) - Joe Morton (JM) - Jack Williamson (JW) - Will Barber (WB) - Chair: DH dsh1g18@soton.ac.uk - Minutes: JM jm3n18@soton.ac.uk - Minutes Archive: - Available here
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Agenda¶
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Freshers events
- Do both hardware and software on Monday?
- JW (not a good idea to make people decide, since they should get skills in both)
- DT (PCB design is not useful, we should be focussing on stuff for summer school)
- freshers bots untested
- cancel hack weekend next weekend and move intro to hardware session to give time to test freshers bots
- Use Monday for Python Tornado tour with a second on 28-oct
- ADVERTISE widely (outside SRO)
- website has been updated (google sheet is view only)
- move hardware design later (18-NOV?)
- is future worlds event still happening (not heard from them)
- Do both hardware and software on Monday?
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Jamboree
- Dennis running events at Scouts Shooting Jamboree
- Charlie, Anton, Dan T, Dan H, Jack, Tommy? volunteering to help
- Take competition robots, maybe bit bots (too simple)?
- need more laptops, Dennis has laptops which may not be powerful enough, Jules is currently unaccesable
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NEED Lipos, chargers, spare kit, ways of mounting spare kit (e.g. zip ties)
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We should set up the Dennis arena at some point so that we know what it looks like
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we should download 2013 video
- take cubes, but vision wont work in time
- SP2020
- sp2020 schedule has been updated with broad overview of tasks. The github task list will be more granular
- need to chase up servo board manufacture with Son and talk to him about SP
- Named roles: We don't have a smallpeice lead at the moment. We will need an EGM to elect someone
- Cupboard move
- need to sort out card access to B32
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need to decide a date for moving (9-10 november is the proposed weekend)
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Dan H to send an email to Geoff asking for card access and a block booking for a room in 32
- AOB
- Dianne (SR) wants to meet regarding storage of SR kit
ACTION POINTS¶
- DH: Write email for Monday, get it distributed
- ?: Social media posts about Monday
- JM: Test freshers bots
- ?: Confirm Future worlds event
- several: Organise things for Jamboree
- DH: Email Son about meeting to kick off and servo boards
- DH: Email Geoff about B32 card access and room booking
- DH: Email Dianne about meeting