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Originally Posted by theCADman
Well, for one thing this group IS a Captains group. If I wanted to allow others to join, I would have created a general FRC networking page. What I mean by this is, this group was created for Captains to network. This is because each person who was appointed Captain on their respective teams, was appointed for a reason whether the rest of the team was either in support or not. In any well run team, organization, or business, there is always a leader to keep things moving and on track. I simply want to network with those people.
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I guess I'm coming from a place where I have seen many "leaders" get appointed in a nearly arbitrary way. Not on my team specifically, but in general.
What is that "a reason" that they were appointed for? It can very wildly from team to team and I'm not sure it is a good metric to include or exclude people by. Sometimes it is because the team believes they will be a great leader. Sometimes it is because they are really really popular. Sometimes it is because the real leaders on the team could not run for the office.
I have seen many teams where the real student who is galvanizing the team and stepping up to make the hard decisions is NOT the captain, but someone who saw that action needed to be taken and took it. Possibly in a situation where the person elected Captain was eager to get a title and feel responsible and the other student was eager to put in work to make the whole team successful.
I would say that if your goal is to network with the leaders who "keep things moving and on track" on teams then you would be better served by opening it up to "FRC Student Leaders" rather than just Captains. I am definitely not advocating a "open to all" networking page because there are plenty of those. But as I don't think you can effectively verify is someone was, in fact, a Captain then opening it up to more leaders is sensible.
This is all just my 2 cents and it may turn out that having a smaller population is beneficial.