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titleTeam recaps

A couple bullet points on the team’s general goals/focus points this week, and if there’s anything that is blocking your team.

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Directors

  • Re-examining comp timelines.

  • Setting up our next set of comp operators.

  • Re-aligning team direction

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Autonomy

  • MEF presentation

  • pathing arch

  • flight test request for pathing things in future (not this weekend)

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EFS

  • have meeting about zp telemetry manager → make tasks and assign

  • follow-up with old drivers

    • rangefinder

    • altimeter

    • sd card

  • buy imu breakout boards

  • Fix tracking antenna issue and re-test

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EE

  • order pre-crimped JST gh wires

  • order wire strippers

  • order solder paste

  • order heat shrinks with glue

  • bring-up more Lighting PCBs

  • capacitor analysis

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Mechanical

  • Continue work on pegasus 2

  • New printer came! Can print things again!

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Operations

  • Focusing on funding proposals 4x

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titleFunding

Georgia Vachon Westerlund

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titleDirector nominations

reach out to directors if confused

director role! Megan Spee to go over this document and make it more clear https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AD/pages/2307719388/Organization+Roles#Director

Tech director noms - https://forms.office.com/r/ZBY30TeCw3

  • nominate anyone, Willing to do on-boarding in the fall term.

  • Closes feb 19th

Exec director noms - https://forms.office.com/r/FY51bnHZsj

  • Megan Spee looking to bring someone else up as an exec dir over summer/fall.

    • plan to bring-up in person / online over fall / summer.

    • nominate anyone! yourself! your friends! pikachu! etc.

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titleReading week / midterm week downtime?
  • Not running sync meetings for aeac

  • Leads probably cancelled as well. will ping if something is to be discussed

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titleFlight Test Schedule re-examination

briefings pushed to 10 to lower barrier of entry for flight tests - this worked well

encourage members to show up, you get to fly drones

ideally help the subteam members prepare for flight test tasks, and get in touch with people to run FTs to better prepare them! → gets them more involved and they are less lost on the flight line

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titleCompetition pilot/gso + advanced operator
  • Thinking we should lock-in people who can commit for critical roles.

  • Have had volunteer from numerous people in varying ways - seems fair to open ground schooling to all members & then only sponsor a few tests?

    • people who go to flight test

      • open ground school to everyone? - Anthony Luo

      • from there can choose to sponsor 2 tests for people who can go to comp. Yuchen Lin ! :D

      • lock in around reading week?

        • ideally get a lot of time operating the drone

        • Megan Spee Anthony Luo to work on handoff of RC setup and integ specifically for piloting

criteria for comp pilots and GSO

  1. interested

  2. attending flight tests

  3. avail for comp

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titleSubteam socials & workshops
  • PLEASE TT

  • plan maybe after midterms ~

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titleWARG open source licencing and which parts of WARG is under this licence

R D DRAFT Open Source Licencing

How much of WARG’s information is open source?

Background:

Goal of open source licences in general: Preemptively give permission to the public to use, redistribute, and modify the publically accessible technical information.

  • May come with restrictions: Acknowledgement, non commercial only, any incorporation of information must also be under the same licence, etc.

If the technical information is publically accessible but not under open source, it retains copyright by default (which means a 3rd party needs to request and receive written permission before copying/modifying the work). For example:

  • Datasheet for part

  • User manual for product

  • Documentation for API usage

WARG:

  • Software: Open source under BSD-4 (decided in 2021)

    • BSD-4 conditions:

      • Acknowledgement in source, binary, documentation, advertizing, and marketing

      • May not use the copyright holder’s name and contributors as endorsement or promotion, unless permission is given in writing

  • Hardware:

    • Schematics(?) are on GitHub:

    Documentation: ?
  • Documentation: No licence

  • Logs: ?No licence

  • Discussion (e.g. Discord): ?No licence

  • Marketing (e.g. social media, posters): ?No licence

  • Other (am I missing anything)?

general slander/defamation potentially to use peoples' names.

Daniel Puratich 's message about team improvement and making things better for everyone!\

2/8/2024: Reflections & Rambling

Daniels ramblings

  • Minimum requirement for an SDC team: compete at least once per year, have a safety captain, and follow all the SDC policies

Anthony Luo - anyone needing to do director syncs before comp swing?

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