Originally Posted by Mandi_|<o>| (Post 564460)

Thanks Williane,
all the contacts are available now,
Guilherme is working on a new forum, from brfirst, it will be better=D
Thank you very much=D

Originally Posted by Williane (Post 564357)

Hi Mandi,

I am working on a list with all contacts to give to Ana, Guilherme, and Ivan. They will give the list to the teams in Brazil and allow teams to contact mentors directly.

I understand that some will not use the forum since not everyone has fast internet connection there. They can use emails or MSN.

The students and mentors that are offering to help know the barrier with the language and they will be fine if we have treads in Portuguese only. No one should worry about writing in English. We can have the English speaker mentors helping those that can communicate in English and the other helping whoever speaks Portuguese... it is something new to me also, we will figure out the best way together.

Thanks for offering your forum. Would you please copy the posts here in your forum? It will be easier to me to keep track of one place only…


Here is a list of contacts we have until now:

Mechanical

- Caio, 1510 Manager & Mech Leader, Portuguese,
Aim: Cowonthego, Yahoo: Cowonthego, MSN: ccyberdude@hotmail.com

- Zoheb N, 118 Captain, English, PM

- Brandon, 125 (formally of team 11) Mentor, English, mortgeek@gmail.com

Autodesk Inventor

- Brandon, 125 (formally of team 11) Mentor, English, mortgeek@gmail.com

- Caio, 1510 Manager & Mech Leader, Portuguese,
Aim: Cowonthego, Yahoo: Cowonthego, MSN: ccyberdude@hotmail.com

Programming

- Gustavo, 108 Programmer, Portuguese, intellec7@hotmail.com

- Mike Betts, 177 Mentor, English, betts@isp.com

Electrical & Electronics

- Mike Betts, 177 Mentor, English, betts@isp.com

Strategy & Intelligence

- Guy Davidson, 8 Strategy & Intelligence Captain, English, PM

Please give your area of expertise:

- Nate Edwards, 957 Mentor, area ?, edwardsnb@gmail.com

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo (Post 564606)

Just between us folks, I don't think anyone will have a problem with the occasional thread in Portuguese. Anyone who doesn't understand can always go to Babelfish or the like to get the gist.

On the other hand, I simply cannot imagine not having the KOP by even now, that is a HUGE disadvantage. In the future, perhaps FIRST can pre-ship them some weeks early to a neutral in-country location, and they get shipped to teams from there at kickoff. Ditto other locations where inbound Customs might be an issue.

Don