To Do List: 

• Having meetings outside of regular Thursday meetings is highly encouraged! 
• Start using Atlassian tools!
• Better define team communication hierarchy
• Discuss team goals and resolutions
• Plan activities for new members

Attendees

• Titus Chow
• Calder Kitagawa
• Taiping Li
• Matt Suski
  
• Jon Edward Gutierrez
• Karl Ding
  
• Mahtab Dhaliwal
• Yuvraj Singh
• David Ling (Unlicensed)
• Lauren Hankins
• Angela Chao
• Tak Alguire
• Kevin Chen (Unlicensed)
• Aaron Lam
• Lucas Francisco Fryzek (Unlicensed)

Atlassian Stuff

• Instructions for financial stuff (and reimbursements) is now under Business in Confluence

Chain of Communication

• We should have a well-defined chain of communication for various subteams (team leads, team Manager, etc.)
• Will be discussed at a later date

Team Goals and Resolutions

• MSXI is too expensive and time-consuming to fix for a future race
  • As a result, we will build MSXII on top of the things we've learned from MSXI
• Next 2 terms will be dedicated to designing MSXII
  • This term is more high-level design
  • Next term will finalize the design
• We will also be spending time teaching new members about the car, and spreading the knowledge

Electrical (Software/Hardware)

• We will be focusing on making a system that is easier to maintain, manufacture and debug
• Building a controller board that breaks out the microcrotroller and the important parts that make a board work
  • Anything system-specific will have a carrier board that will make it interchangable
• Prototype controller board will be in by the end of the week (Kevin is handling this)
• Software is changing architectures, and switching MCUs from TI MSP430s to the STM chips (ARM instead of MSP430s)
  • A gradual process to port/rewrite the firmware
• We can test out the new electrical system in the car, since it is roughly car-agnostic (ie. we can swap out the electrical in MSXI with the new electrical system)

Mechanical

• 2 terms for design
• Kinematic model by the end of the term (HARD DEADLINE)
• By the end of this week, we will decide what materials we're using for the frame and aerobody (Sunday)
• By the end of the month, we'll have tasks for the new members to work on
• Figure out what we're giving the new members for next week
• Maintain Skype calls on Sunday

Business

• Making sponsorship calls and emails
• Refining the sponsorship strategy that Business team takes
• Talk to old sponsors about progress
• Student Design Showcase (today, afternoon)
  • Recruiting all the first-years
• Solar Car Expo
• see Meeting Notes from yesterday
• Working on guidelines for answering generic questions

Activities for New Members

Business

• Making a curriculum
  • How to write cover letters
  • How to make sponsorship calls

Electrical

• Theoretical
  • Teaching people how to use Altium
  • Teachiing how our system works electrically
• Applied
  • Soldering tutorials
  • Getting to know the specific bits of PCB design
    • Rules that we follow (like what not to do)
• Run workshops on how the boards work and do what they do
  • Brief overview of all the systems

Mechanical

• Will be finalized by the end of the month