SourceBots Volunteer Documentation
This documentation is currently under development and there may be unfinished sections present.
This documentation contains information for volunteers about how SourceBots operates.
What is SourceBots?
SourceBots is a volunteer organisation which runs exciting robotics challenges for teams of young people. Whilst based at the University of Southampton’s Department of Electronics and Computer Science and led by its students, SourceBots contributors include teachers and professional engineers.
You can view our main website to see the external-facing side of the competition.
How can I get involved?
GitHub
Much of our technical work is carried out on our GitHub organisation. It also contains the content for our websites.
Issues
- Submit a suggestion
- Submit a bug
Pull Requests
We use Git, a version control system to manage our codebase. You can make a Pull Request to submit code for review to our repositories before it is merged into the master branch.
Meetings
We meet weekly at the University of Southampton on Monday evenings at 6pm. Our usual location is in Building 53 (Mountbatten), Room 4025. However, this is subject to change if the room is in use for other activities. Any room changes will be announced on the mailing list prior to the meeting. If you would like to join us for a meeting, please get in touch via one of the methods below as access to the building is restricted.
We also hold a Google Hangout call at the same time as this meeting. The link to the Hangout is usually posted in the agenda.
At the competition
We welcome volunteers to help at our Tech Days and Competition. If you are interested, please get in touch via one of our communication channels.
Calendar
We list our events on a public Google Calendar.
How to get in touch
- Mailing list
- Slack
- In Person