Sputnic Project Group Meeting - Minutes

Agenda:
1. Project Labs
2. Licences
3. Mailing List
4. Poster Presentation
5. Cross-over of projects
6. Resources / Shipping List



1. Project Labs
5th year MEng students have already been assigned a lab within the Royal College building. Room R169.

Honours Students will be assigned some PCs within the Arrol Lab (L1009).
This is yet to happen, however, the process of getting these systems is underway.
There might have to be some sort of booking system put in place for these machines.
There might be the need for a hardware lab as well. Students would use this lab for implementing any addition hardware.

2. Licences
The 5th year students will need a licence for their R169 project lab.
System support are going to install the licences onto PCs in the arrol lab and hopefully they will have this sorted out by the end of next week.
Furthermore, we will hopefully be able to get licences for our home machines, however, to have a fully functional home machine will depend on the amount of BDMs available.

3. Mailing List
A mailing list has been set up as sputnic@cis.strath.ac.uk, however, it is not fully active yet. You will recieve an email once you have been subscribed to it.
In addition to the mailing list, a wiki (tikiwiki) has been set up.
Http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/local/wiki

We are encouraged to use this to this wiki to share common information about the Sputnic projects.

4. Poster Presentation
Week 11 - 6 x A4 (landscape)
As advised by the 5th year students, the use of a Gant chart is recommended.
The Poster Presentations will be cover in more depth at another time.

5. Cross over of projects
Please collaborate individually with each other on relevant material.
Furthermore, the wiki is in place to help with common issues/problems.

6. Resources / Shopping List
There is a limited number of BDMs; we need to check out exactly how many, however, need a full Licenced machine to do that.
Furthermore, the black boxes need to be checked and marked with working or not working. After which, we can take steps to getting them fixed.
Duncan is going to hopefully tap Freescale for some more free stuff, hopefully some more BDMs as well and other things students need.
Each student has to create an invidual shopping list of parts they need and email them to duncan, e.g. Zigbee chips, ethernet etc....

Other Information.
All emails regarding the projects should have the prefix [project]
As advised by Duncan, it is recommened to have some sort of contingency plan, please try and simulate something incase the actual hardware is not available or you start to have issues with it.

To dos:
Email Duncan your shopping list (remember the [project] prefix)
Email Duncan your preferred times for individual meetings and also whether you prefer them on a weekly or 2 weekly basis, please remember Duncan would prefer Mondays, Thursday & Fridays if possible and again, the [project] prefix.