FIRST Community,
One of my students had the idea to get the FIRST community together during one of the slower times of the year to enrich programming ideas and software. His letter to the FIRST community is below. He doesn't have a deep CD profile so he asked me to post this for him.
Dear FIRST® Teams,
Summer of FIRST ® is an Open-Source, long distance collaboration project that is looking for programmers from FIRST ® teams who are interested in developing their skills and contributing to the FIRST ® community. If your team is already planning an off-season project involving software that may be used by the community, or you are interested in writing software in the off-season for the FIRST ® Robotics Competition, you may be interested in enrolling your team in Summer of FIRST ®.
Mission Statement:
Our goal is to inspire the creation and expansion of Open-Source software for FIRST ® robotics, through providing an engaging and industry relevant environment, with incentives for quality contributions. Through participation in this project those involved will improve their skills in Software Engineering, as well as other Computer Science related fields.
What is expected of participating teams:
• Participants will have a team representative enroll their team through the form found on our website (
www.SummerOfFIRST.org/teamsignup)
• Participants will be notified before July 1st as to the acceptance of their project, via email
• Participating teams will have email addresses created for them at SummerOfFIRST.org
• SourceForge accounts will be made for participating teams. It will be the responsibility of teams to store their up-to-date code online. SourceForge allows subversioning, using SVN, Git and Mercurial. Please use SVN or Git for Summer of FIRST® projects.
• Two mandatory code-reviews will be scheduled during the project. Teams are responsible for scheduling convenient dates for the code-reviews with Summer of FIRST ® staff.
• At the end of the project, awards will be recognized during a live webcast. We will also evaluate the progress achieved during the summer and what we would like to see accomplished next year. More details on where and when this event will be hosted will be available in the future.
For more information please visit our website:
www.SummerOfFIRST.org. For specific questions that cannot be answered on the website, teams can contact a staff member:
Tyler Pawlaczyk: tyler_at_SummerOfFIRST.org
CD Username armgeek
Regards,
Summer of FIRST ® Organizer
Tyler Pawlaczyk
FRC Team 340