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2014-07-02 : SR2015 Issue 02
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This is the fourth issue of the Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter, a (roughly) fortnightly newsletter which summarises the goings-on across SR. This is a bit of an experiment, so if you have feedback or think we've missed something, feel free to reply to this thread. Emboldened items are ones which we believe could do with extra hands. An absence of emboldening does not necessarily mean that everything is done.
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- Two internships are running over the summer. Giorgos Karatziolas will be working on making a battery fuel gauge [0] and Tom Leese will be working on the interface on the tablets as part of the new SR2015 kit (list post to come shortly).
- Certificates have definitely been sent out now [1].
- The game submission deadline is almost with us: discussion ends on the 4th and voting on the 9th [2]. Anyone who has a game submission should take the time to clarify the final version [3] of their game on the list.
- Smallpeice is taking place in the last week of July and any extra volunteers would be helpful.
- The steering minutes from the latest committee meeting (23rd July) have been placed into Git [4]. Key points to take away include: aiming for 81 teams and schools like the idea of having to travel to get to a kickstart to encourage the students.
- Signing up exists in some form or other, and discussion is ongoing [5].
- Jeremy has posted the teacher feedback he has received [6], and that feedback is generally very good.
- Sam has performed some analysis on the competition server logs and performed some extra benchmarking to produce a report [7].
- Jeremy has reported that a line of code with 17,000 characters causes pylint 0.26 to hang [8], solutions include enforcing a line-length limit or simply updating pylint.
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Thanks to Lilafisch, Tyler Ward and Tom Leese for contributing. The previous issue can be found here [9]. |
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[0] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/srobo-devel/_GiVdXIvGO4/discussion
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[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/srobo/f8ps8rKfeE0/IeYUpzcAuWcJ
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[2] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/srobo-game/icdyUesc5XU/discussion
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[3] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/srobo-game/YHTqEKftaS0/discussion
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[4] https://www.studentrobotics.org/cgit/steering-minutes.git/tree/2013-2014/2014-06-23/minutes.txt
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[5] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/srobo/VAfEPOmplOY/discussion
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[6] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/srobo/t9gVNWYxF6o/discussion
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[7] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/srobo/IeUe20rdnwY/discussion
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[8] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/srobo-devel/s03XxFcpgCA/discussion
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[9] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/srobo/f8ps8rKfeE0/discussion
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