Weekly Staff Meetings/2011-12-13

Location: XinCheJian 7:30 p.m.

Props

• Props Lutz and Min Lin for insectbot
• Props to all who are still doing the AI class!
• Minlin for drinks
• David for the paper robot

Events Recap

• Last Wednesday talks
• Last Thursday embedded engineers meetup (RT Threads talk)
• Saturday FPGA talk (and PSB visit?)
• Sunday Insectbot
• Sunday Movie Filming

TODO follow up

• Edward: Programming article
  • some rails to help get started
• Edward: Tech Yizu/XCJ Building Bridge Challenge
• Infy: Freescale Board XLSTAR Competition
• Ricky: structure proposal
• Ricky: hackers exchange program
• Felix: Collect college student’s neglected electronics
• Ricky: Juelab space

Coming up this week

• MaxMSP class
• Arduino workshops
• "Cooking" a product
• qt113, attiny85
• wednesday topics

Coming up in the coming months

• Tech Yizu/XCJ Building Bridge Challenge
• FPGA classes
• Stanford Machine Learning
• JUE Music+ART festival
• Milkymist "Becoming a DJ"
• Freescale Board XLSTAR Competition
• February Roboracing competition
  • dedicated subdomain for robo-racing racing.xinchejian.com?

Proposals

• one dedicated location to add events..
  • why didn't arduino make it to the XCJ event list
• Move weekly email to mailchimp - is it worth it? 2000 emails a month free
  • can we import everyone
  • will it be worth while to go into a webzine format?
  • need those writers to make it happen
• XinCheJian.com to have a facelift?

Finances

• Cap sheet (Michael)