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NodeBots Day. Next event: International NodeBots Day, 22 July 2017
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Location (Brisbane) #19

Closed garrows closed 10 years ago

garrows commented 10 years ago

@AnnaGerber you said you were going to check with the Edge to see if they are available. Anything I can do to help with this?

AnnaGerber commented 10 years ago

I'll ask about interest / availability while I'm there tonight for @HackTheEvening

AnnaGerber commented 10 years ago

Venue

OK, I spoke to people at The Edge and they are fine with us running NodeBots here on July 26th. The venue is open from 12 - 8pm on Saturdays so I figure we can run our event from 12 - 6pm again like we did last time if that suits everyone?

I've asked about using Lab 4 (which has a projector, workbenches and a bunch of computers with node and Johnny-Five already set up) to make it easier for people who don't have laptops. I'll find out by Monday whether the lab is free on the 26th, but even if not we should be able to use one of the other spaces.

So if everyone is fine with The Edge as a venue I'll let them know next week and we can book in.

Internet

There is public wifi (slqwireless) for everyone to use at The Edge.

Sponsors

@garrows If you could think about potential sponsors that would be great

Last year ThoughtWorks sponsored some catering at NBDBris - I can email you the person who I talked to last year if you don't know anyone there.

If we have a decent budget and want to cater "proper" food, we need to go through a list of preferred caterers at The Edge. Alternatively we could provide snack food e.g. bags of chips, biscuits etc and organise an esky of drinks.

Gear

We have 6 simplebot kits from NBDBris.

I also have most of the gear from CampJS NodeBots workshop (minus two kits that were lent out), which gives us a bunch of ultrasonic sensors, accelerometers, 8 extra Arduino Uno clones, lots of battery holders

Tickets

I'd like to offer some free tickets for students along with the regular tickets to encourage more high school students to attend.

ajfisher commented 10 years ago

That all sounds ace. Does anyone know what was used at CampJS to set up a local npm mirror etc? With the issues we've had with bandwidth at all locations it strikes me if we could get a local mirror at each place this would help markedly on that front to get people up and running quickly.

Especially if we did the same thing with a local file server to have stuff like arduino, installers etc.

sidorares commented 10 years ago

afaik @eugeneware helped with npm mirror

garrows commented 10 years ago

Awesome work Anna. Last year's room was perfect.

I'll do my best for sponsorship but I've never done that sort of thing before. I'll need your contact. Maybe forward last year's email thread to me too if you could.

Andrew I'm pretty sure Rod Vagg set up the mirror. Eugine was the admin though.

eugeneware commented 10 years ago

I ran a local npm mirror, but there were some issues, mainly with npm shrinkwrap. You can see the magical incantations to try to work around this at https://github.com/campjs/campjs-intranet/blob/master/public/npmrc.md

It's very difficult to run an npm mirror without any internet, as a percentage of packages still are hard coded to go out to the interwebs. I had a local dnsmasq proxying dns requests to registry.npmjs.org and stuff still sneaked through.

I'd recommend that you provide some internet to allow these stragglers through, or even better, pre-build the packages (with npm install etc) for the different architectures (because of binary requirements), and then download the files, and do an npm link. This is the safest way to have things work locally.

But you'll need to do this for all the various flavors of windows, mac, linux, etc due to binary requirements.

Let me know if you need more info.

The local file server we had with a public writable samba share that was also mapped to a http server worked pretty well too. Highly recommended to allow people to share files.

garrows commented 10 years ago

Thanks @eugeneware. @ajfisher I noticed during the weekend that the precompiled serialport lib gets downloaded from Amazon's S3 so even more difficult to host locally. I know the Edge has very good internet so we will be fine.

Anyway this is pretty off topic to "Location (Brisbane)" so I would recommend opening up another issue if you want to keep discussing.

@AnnaGerber with regards to sponsorship, I opened up a new issue here https://github.com/nodebotsau/nbdau/issues/24

AnnaGerber commented 10 years ago

So that we've got everything in the one place, here's a list of Brisbane-specific tasks that we should start working on, feel free to assign yourself or edit

AnnaGerber commented 10 years ago

Unfortunately the shirts still haven't arrived so we'll have to save them for the next NodeBots Bris meetup.

Due to the HSBNE laser cutter being broken, we had to get the SimpleBot parts cut elsewhere and they arrived today, in the nick of time phew, so the kits will be good to go for tomorrow.