====== 296 Team Meeting - January 29, 2016 ======
** Attended: Kyaw, Jaimie **

** Sick: Kenny **

===== Updates =====
  * Finished git tutorials
  * Answered git questions
  * Arduino tutorials
  * Arduino software downloaded (Kenny please do when you have your laptop)
  * Set up another time
  * Proposal presentation update:
     * Talk 5 mins
     * Motivation (i.e. reasons/interests for joining lab)
     * Expected timeline (short term intermediate goals)
     * Goals (i.e. what we hope for weatherbox to do: data collection)
     * Summary of what we did (tools: arduino, github, etc.)
     * Make it personal!

===== Discussions =====
Github Q/A:
1. What is a version control system?
   -System that records changes to files over time
2. Why is it useful?
   -You can save things (when, why, what the change was for)
      -Makes it easy to recall specific versions later
3. What is git?
   -It's a distributed version control system (DVCS)
   -They show the latest version of the file and mirror it in a repository
    giving you the ability to back up to a server
4. What is Github?
   -Web-based git repository hosting service.
   -Sort on server/local machine (Git)
   -Server on (Github)
6. How are git and Github different from each other?
   -Github is the service uses Git (DVCS)
7. Why do you think git or any other version control system can be useful?
   -Uses version control (makes fast)
   -Easy to revert back to an old piece of code (provides record of changes)
   -Easy collaboration (allows many people to edit files)
   -Easy is mentioned a lot above... It's easy to use! (novices can use)

===== Reminders =====
  * Update readme section (team members, team goals, every member create bio)
  * NO GITHUB TO EDIT readme section
  * Work on presentation