[gixxy]

I never did much collaboration with other teams during the season while I was on a team, not enough time. However, since then I have assisted a couple of teams from: Oregon, California, and Florida (as well as the two I work as an actual mentor on in Louisiana) as a way to give back to FIRST. I Usually just looking over code and report on bugs (explaining what they did wrong, not fixing it for them). I know there are lots of open source projects in FIRST outside of the robot code.

RobotOpen's platform is open source. Gluxon has a Driver Station that is open source and you can contribute to. RobotPY (Program RoboRIO in Python) is community developed.

While people may not come by and help you like I have (though usually I am approached for help) you can always ask and people will be happy to help.