openFIRST Project Stats

[Timothy D. Ginn]

For anyone who's interested, SourceForge has turned on project statistics (ooh, pretty) and they're working for our project.

For the stats, take a look at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=78233&ugn=openfirst

The stats are working on the all of the other SourceForge project sites that I checked, too.

So, I guess if anyone has some use for these stats; that would be cool. On a random note, I've found the map that's used by http://worldwide.kde.org and if there's sufficient interest, we could try to do something similar to that site (maybe for users, rather than, or in addition to, volunteers).

[Beth Sweet]

Ok, I'm sorry, I must have totally missed the boat here but what is openFIRST?

[Timothy D. Ginn]

Ok, I'm sorry, I must have totally missed the boat here but what is openFIRST?

That's fine; we're not as well known as we perhaps should be :-)

The project website is: http://www.openfirst.org/

The basic description is: "openFIRST is an integrated set of modules which may be used together to create or enhance a web site. It is directed towards teams participating in the FIRST competition."

[Beth Sweet]

So it's code that helps make your website look better?

[Timothy D. Ginn]

So it's code that helps make your website look better?

Well, it certainly is possible to use openFIRST as the sole design of your site (and in the past some teams have); but that's not really the intention. What it's supposed to do is provide backend functionality, like a guest book, a feedback form, a members area, a photo gallery and a news posting system which can be changed easily to suit the layout of a team's site and which are designed to work together; but don't require each other. So, websites using openFIRST can look completely different; for example, these two sites both use openFIRST:

http://www.sinclairsprockets.com/photogallery/
http://www.portperryrobotics.ca/