2024-01-29 Leads meeting

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

Directors

  • Continue supporting Flight Test + Systems Integration operations

  • Had one good social → planning a few more

    • tinywhoop racing event

    • paintball

    • karaoke

  • Getting sub-team leads to start planning their own sub-team socials & work-sessions

  • Training up now Pilots & GSO, as well as replacement directors!

  • Support sub-teams through funding rounds, work with operations to create funding proposals.

 

Autonomy

  • Progress on all tasks

  • Bringup new autonomy leads (to be voted soon)

 

EFS

  • Gemini setup

  • task assignment out

  • big procurement for RTK GPS

  • Projected collab w/ EE for lighting project?

  • Also focusing on tracking antenna in preparation for ground and flight testing

 

 

 

  • Each subteam please have a breakdown of what you’ll likely need to support your projects across the next ~ 12-18 months.

  • Put these into a well formatted document listing at least minimum, maximum, and some average cost breakdown for each item.

    • Send these to wingchee + directors no later than [date: proposed ~~jan 30] (this is 1 day from today)

  • Confluence doc: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/CIF0jg

  • This document must be filled out by Friday, February 2nd at 11:59 PM for your items to be included in the presentation

 

Funding Guidelines | Waterloo Engineering Endowment Foundation

WEEF Funding Approval Guidelines

reach out to directors if confused

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

  • nominate anyone

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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  • tentative spots?

  • How do we handle locking in?

we need to give graeme a wishlist of vehicles and equipment we need for comp.

  • 12-15 people (2 caravan. or 3 other vehicles)

comp nom roster (put out comp propaganda to convince people)

  • Feb 1, megan attends.

  • any things to bring up?

    • no seats in a caravan (how do we know when we book vehicles)

  • lowkey pay attention to the finance part

  • Shared crimper tools? (JST/Anderson/Specialized crimps)

  • SDC more clarity on driver rules - license time requirements, video interview

    • also time requirements on the vehicles..

@Nathan Green Will be stepping down as mech lead at the end of the term/after comp. Need to select a replacement

“I will figure it out” - @Nathan Green

 

Autonomy leads nominations

Tong - airside system PM, already reviews bootcamps

Aaron - IMACS PM, pathing project in 2023 comp

 

welcome to lead role - successfully voted in!