296 Team Meeting - January 29, 2016

Attended: Kyaw, Jaimie Sick: Kenny

• 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!

1. What is a version control system?
   -System that records changes to files over time
2. Why is it useful?
   -You can 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?

1. Easy to revert back to an old piece of code
2. Easy collaboration

• Update readme section (team members, team goals, every member create bio)
• NO GITHUB TO EDIT readme section