[srawn] SR(A)WN 2017 -- 6

[Andrew Barrett-Sprot]

SR(A)WN 2017 -- 6

This is the sixth issue of the 2017 Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter, a (roughly) fortnightly newsletter which summarises the goings‐on across Student Robotics. Emboldened items are ones which we believe could do with extra hands. An absence of emboldening does not necessarily mean that everything is done.

---

Headlines

• Kickstart was held in Southampton, Oxford, and Bristol.
• The Game for this year's competition has been announced at kickstart. (Easy as ABC)
• A problem with the tablets means that some tablets have no shortcut to their robot's web interface, leading to confusion among teams.
• There is a mentor sign up form which potential mentors should fill in to get information on mentoring.
• GDC has claimed first movement, it is currently unclear if they are a rookie team.

Minor Headlines

• The volunteers in Southampton have permananently moved to The SR Slack for all communications.

---

Thanks to everyone who helped put this issue together. If you would like, you can also read the previous issue.

[Peter Law]

Hi,

> GDC has claimed first movement, it is currently unclear if they are a rookie
> team.

I can't look right now, but this data is in priv/teams.git (there's a
field on each team based on TLAs from the past few years, though this
may meed double-checking in case TLAs have been re-used and/or teams
have had long absences). Someone with proper access could look (I'll
do so over the weekend if no-one else has done so by then).

> The volunteers in Southampton have permananently moved to The SR Slack for
> all communications.

Does this include moving away from the Southampton specific mailing list?

Does this include communication with non-Southampton people?

Thanks,
Peter

[Andrew Barrett-Sprot]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:03 PM Peter Law <peter...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does this include moving away from the Southampton specific mailing list?

No, though the mailing list hasn't been used much, we in Southampton are going to use it more.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:03 PM Peter Law <peter...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does this include communication with non-Southampton people?

 Sorry for being a bit too lax on the wording,

we were previously using facebook messenger but wanted to use something a bit more open to people joining. I should also mention we're not dropping IRC, but all major communications for Southampton will go over the slack.

Thanks,

Andy B-S

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:03 PM Peter Law <peter...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does this include moving away from the Southampton specific mailing list?

Does this include communication with non-Southampton people?

Thanks,
Peter

--

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Student Robotics" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to srobo+un...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Peter Law]

Hi,

>> GDC has claimed first movement, it is currently unclear if they are a rookie
>> team.

I've just had a look at the post [0] and the question of whether
they're a rookie is moot as the robot doesn't perform the required
moves for the first movement award.

For the record though, I can't find a record of Godalming College
having competed in the last few years, and teams.git has them set as a
rookie.

Thanks,
Peter

[0] https://www.studentrobotics.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=162;
linking to https://twitter.com/GodColComputing/status/788757164697456640,
which shows a robot driving one-way along a table top and possibly off
the end (the video stops before the robot stops moving).