Ok.. Mike told me to post my idea for the name on the forum for "responses" lol it started as a joke but grew on me

how about FIRST SERF's

Stands for FIRST ( obviously ) South East Robotics Forum

but.. we just call ourselves the serf's yes.. as in the indentured servants of the feudal ages lol

it would make for a killer logo.. some scruffy person with a hammer banging on robotic parts or something

and awsome t-shirts too lol

we could be all like serfers and jive

well thats my spin

Dan

in early summer we had swamp Vs Spam bowling In the Nutral Zone

Here are some ideas that the website could have.

An area where we could post drawings of ideas, whitepapers, pictures etc. Then as an area under that the teams that a re part of the alliance can have an area that would be set up that teams can easily post progress on thier bots with pictures and the likes.

Another thing would be a chat room where we could have scheduled "meetings" like once a month or so in the off season and weekly or biweekly during the season to discuss ideas, manufacturing techniques, or ask any questions. Also at these meetings we could set up get togethers and things like that.

Also an email blast system could be set up so emails could be sent to all registered members about important things.

And finally i would love to see a nice contact list for teams in florida, Not just of members but of teachers, mentors, engineers... So if there is a competiton or if you just want to meet with another team for some help building it would be easy to get an email to them.

mmm i like the name the serfs i am a serf ha thats great. Ya i will get some pics up of how we play so you guys can see how things are run. what i like about this website is when we go to a regional we can acutally be closer and maybe get to meet more people like i wish at UCF I could of met mike and a bunch of other people. But since being a driver and everythign ties things up we could set up meeting times for everyone

Well, one idea I had, was something similar to how ChiefDelphi does their "webhug" at nationals, because that helps you put a face to people, and you finally get to meet these people you work with. I was thinking about doing that, as well as setting up a system for teams to setup meetings for just having fun together. On top of that, I was thinking maybe a game area, like setup a Counter-strike Server... primarily for FIRST people, where you have "Clan" matches which could be like team A vs. team B just for fun, or even have mix-and-match teams of friends through the forums, just another way to get together and have fun meeting each other, so more people get involved with the system. I'd like to know what other people's opinions are about the Florida SERFS Idea though.

well mike i can help you with the server i have run two cs servers from my hosue before and i mean they run pretty good ping i can offer the server if you want

I guess im gonna need to start playing counterstrike again!!

i dont play cs much anymore but i will run the server since i know how cause i had a clan for two years and i ran two servers now my question i sold my two servers i can get another one but is there anyone willing to mail me a extra computer to run teh server even if it doesnt run or no os but is fixable cause i will go buy one but i rather save money so when we are done with it i promise i will send it back

I'm kinda busy (i'm the only person working on the RamTech site) but if there's anything i can help with, let me know (tjargote@bellsouth.net). Sounds like a great Idea Mike.