[Canberrauav] The way forward Stephen Dade stephen_dade at hotmail.com Sat Oct 13 00:33:37 EST 2012 Hi all, After much discussion CanberraUAV has decided to become an incorporated association (in a similar vein to MHV). The major reasons for this are to limit personal liability and more transparent handling of money. We had our inaugural meeting last Thursday night at Tridge's place. We also elected our position holders: President: Stephen Dade Vice-President: Chris Gough Treasurer: Paul Tridgell Secretary: Andrew Tridgell The minutes are available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18beha4r8zyJzee1XetMskcQhtIDkIr5vgXUwVTaOVJ0/edit There was much discussion on what CanberraUAV should "be". We came up with the following: (it may need some fine-tuning) CanberraUAV is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to developing and promoting the field of civilian UAV's CanberraUAV will focus on two major items (apart from the 2014 Outback Challenge): i. Research and Development of hardware/software parts for amateur civilian UAV's a. This will all be open source b. Piece-meal approach. We won't be deploying complete UAV systems (apart from the Outback Challenge and flight testing) c. Any CanberraUAV member can R&D anything they think is worthwhile. ii. Educating the public about the potential uses of civilian UAV's a. Collaborating with local search and rescue organisations with what they want from UAV's b. Showing that open-source UAV's are easy-to-use, safe, accessible, practical and affordable. CanberraUAV funds will be used to achieve the above goals. The CanberraUAV membership will decide the level of funding any R&D sub-projects. If anyone has any questions/comments you can email me or the other committee members directly, or reply to the list. Thanks Stephen Dade President (yay!), CanberraUAV
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