8.29.2008
- Long-term goals
- Grasp the future goals so that it is more fun and less like work <-- Colony Plan
- Administration
- Everyone here today is a senior member
- This means you're now all mentors and should help out the freshman
- Be passionate and integrate them
- This means you're now all mentors and should help out the freshman
- GB Meeting Friday 5th, 5pm @ WEH7500 (unless otherwise stated)
- This means freshman at this meeting in 2 weeks
- Giving the "Introduction to Colony Meeting"
- We need to do a lot of cleanup
- Solid library in the trunk
- Tutorials for freshman for the first couple of weeks so that they can get started up
- Lack of structure to give them purpose, don't just leave them hanging
- Challenges from last year was good
- Make them more competitive for a challenge
- Large skill gap, we should close this somehow
- Stress that we are willing to teach but there may be some min requirements for the real stuff...
- More structure may help this, but this needs to be fixed
- More shadowing, or easy personal projects to build their skills
- Senior membership pairing for mentoring
- Narrow down goals, don't give huge things that will be way out of scope
- Stress that we are willing to teach but there may be some min requirements for the real stuff...
- Documentation needs updating, a lot is out of date
- Too advanced, go more simple
- Update all your doxygen documentation for your code and write a unit test for it
- Too advanced, go more simple
- Fix up at least 15 robots to be ready to go
- BOM 1.5 <-> BOM 1.0
- Charging boards, encoders, etc
- GOAL: simple API, just read and go, don't worry about the details so the speak
- Use a larger room because this one might not fit everyone
- Flashdrive for the library, no SVN mess yet...
- Don't forget to tell them to bring their own
- Everyone here today is a senior member
- Send updates to Chris and Austin BEFORE Friday meeting
- post to wiki (you will get a reminder)
- Cookies
- September 12th - Austin
- September 19th - James
- September 26th - Justin
- October 3rd - B-Rad
- October 10th - Brad "Master" Neuman
- October 17th - Jimmy
- October 24th - Brian
- October 31st - Evan
- November 7th - John
- November 14th - Fan
- November 21st - Chris
- December 5th - Kevin
- December 12th - Felix
- Work meetings
- Work meetings every night with skeleton crews to gauge
- Once we get a sense of new and old peoples times, we'll set a good time
- Stuff that you should be doing
- Document and test all your code, especially if you're in the trunk
- Write a unit test for your code...sanity tests so to speak
- Meeting 5pm Monday (9/1/08)
- Status Updates
- Trac
- Web registration now
- UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
- Can get emails about your tickets now
- SURG
- RSVP to the mandatory meeting
- If you don't you will be owned with makeup sessions
- RSVP to the mandatory meeting
- Email
- Use your emails more, this is why we have a mailing list
- Encoders
- Using the wrong files last year, they work
- They can drive a set distance now
- Trac
- Mapping Goals
- Environment has charging stations and obstacles
- Have robots map it
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May Stop here
- Put in new robot with no idea of the map and have it get the map to find the charging station
- RTS, choose a point and avoid obstacles with the map
- Self healing maps, remove objects and have the map heal