TEAM CONTACTS: SIGN UP HERE!!!

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Posted by Ben Mitchell at 04/25/2001 1:30 PM EST


Student on team #303, Vulgens Heroes, from Bridgewater-Raritan HS and Bihler.



HI! My name is Ben Mitchell, and I'm from Team 303, Vulgen's Heroes, based in New Jersey. A major part of the FIRST task is not based on robots, but on information and communication between teams. I've joined GMCIA to help bring data to my team, but pre-match communication would go a long way to open strategy discussions and spread ideas, as well as data on each other's robots. I've created an e-mail account to which teams can join a master list, and join collaberation efforts for data mining during next years task.

PLEASE: Coordinate on your team to who will jion, and make a team account, or designate a member as your contact address.

Include in your email your:

NAME
TEAM #
TEAM NAME
STATE
TOWN


(this format will be easier for me to organize, thanks)

THE ADDRESS IS:

TEAM303CONTACTS@hotmail.com

All enrolled will receive data on every other contributing team on my list, The result: send in your data, and get many others people's data. It can't hurt to sign-up, and the benefits of data before a match starts can be crucial.

Thank you, and I looked forward to swapping data with you next year. Good Luck!

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Posted by Ken Leung at 04/25/2001 3:17 PM EST


College Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


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Posted by Ben Mitchell on 04/25/2001 1:30 PM EST:



From year to year, as people are trying to contact other teams because of various reasons, especially scouting, lots of those people posted on this forum asking for contact information of specific teams.

I think we can save a lot of those postings if we have a master contact list. I know for some years there have been such list, but recently FIRST discontinue such list.

I can see the main reason for discontinuing the list is security reason. So, what I suggest we do is something like what Ben is doing here. A master list of contacts from every team that visit this forum that can only be viewed by ourselves.

We can either have some person in charge of such list, and all requests of contacts will go through him, or have a list on a web page with a login/password. The first option will require a few dedicated persons that can be reached through e-mail at all time, while the second option can be accomplished right here at the Chief Delphi web page (everyone can use their account's login/password to login in the contacts page).

No matter what method we use, a list of e-mail contacts will still be really useful to lots of teams...

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Posted by Ben Mitchell at 04/25/2001 3:41 PM EST


Student on team #303, Vulgens Heroes, from Bridgewater-Raritan HS and Bihler.


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Posted by Ben Mitchell on 04/25/2001 1:30 PM EST:



F.Y.I, I'll use the e-mail sent to me to copy the email address, feel free to add it in text, if you wish, but it's not a problem. Sharing robot data across as many teams as possible helps everyone out. And maybe teams not interested in collaberation this year will get the picture, and sign-up. Data is as important a resource as spare parts, especially since the FIRST games are becoming more cooperative. Intelligence, even the most simplistic of data makes a huge difference in planning and agreeing on a strategy within those two minutes.

Well, hope to hear from you all out there!