TC Meeting Jan 14th 2020

Attending: Reinaldo, Tony, Maike (the meeting did not constitute a quorum, so no decisions were taken)
Missing: Ludovic (on strike), Jacky, Soroush, Reinhard (technical problems)
Note taker: Maike


Updates

  • Website
    • Header image is changed
    • Call for Humanoid Research Demonstration is added
    • RoboCup IT Support has their own admin account now so they can help better with problems
  • Local Organization
    • Ludovic is on strike - we wait to hear back from him on how to handle further communication with the LOC
  • Trustee approval on HOC and HRD
    • We’re still lacking Oskar’s E-Mail - Maike sends another reminder
  • Meta-Review Feedback
    • Only one reviewer did not provide their reviews - the final grade of their team will be lowered
    • A couple of reviews were rather short and not sufficient to do anything about them, especially if the grade was not A (this concerns some reviews by TC members, too)
  • Roadmap
    • Discussion period should have opened yesterday (postponed because Ludovic was responsible and went on strike)
    • Ludovic has prepared an updated version of the Roadmap based on the actual rules of 2020 and the voting results for 2021
    • Maike will open the discussion topics on the forum
  • Humanoid Research Demonstration
    • We’re late with opening the submission system, will be open tomorrow
    • Did we get feedback from the people we contacted? -> Some forwarded it to others, but nobody said they were interested
    • Wasn’t send to the Trustees yet, Reinaldo will do asap
    • Submission deadline will be extended to Feb 17th
    • Reinaldo sends around new CfP with submission system open and extended deadline
  • Humanoid Open Competition?
    • No news. We assume that this is not going to happen
    • Needs to be announced
  • Humanoid Junior-Major demo?
    • No news

Qualification Process

  • AdultSize
    • 7 teams applied
    • 6 scored better than B+
  • KidSize
    • 21 teams applied
    • 14 scored better than B+ overall
    • 1 team has an A- overall, but B for the video
  • Proposal: All teams with at least A- overall and A on video score are directly qualified, everyone else is asked for updated material
    • Maike sends e-mail to TC to get confirmation on this decision

Submission System

  • Updated necessary for HSC (for this year already)
    • Mentoring teams? (checkbox)
    • Taking part in Technical Challenges (both TC only and whether they will participate at all)
  • Updated for HSC next year
    • Possibility to lower the score due to missed review
    • Meta-review field for comments
    • explicit question about hardware
  • Humanoid Research Demonstration
    • Demonstration Data
      • Demonstration title
      • URL of the group’s home page
      • Name of the contact person
      • E-mail address of the contact person
      • Postal address of the contact person
    • Link to Video
    • PDF Upload for Hardware specification (optional)
    • PDF Upload for Short Paper

February meeting(s)

  • before 10th to discuss the roadmap voting
  • after 24th to discuss the final group of qualified teams and HRD applications
  • Maike sends around a Doodle