[Josh Hambright]

Would you be willing to assist in this system’s design/development?

I would be willing to help with any kind of cosmetic work you need (coming up with the data that is relavant and graphics and that sorta thing).

Would you/your team be willing to share even some of its data?

We would love to. We submited a ton of soap profiles and a few to other scouting systems (we did a few ubergeeks and i think we did some in your database). We were really thinking how nice it would be to have a system that would tie together everyones systems to make a good database. Especialy for the championships where we only had data for the teams from our area in our database. Its really just being graciously professional to share your data. We had our system open to all the teams in cleveland and once teams found out alot of teams started coming to our pit and looking through it to check out aliances and oponent before matches.

Do you think that a system like this would work (If you think it really won’t please tell me… I don’t want to start something that no one will use)?
I think it would if enough people got involved and if it worked well.

In the end, how much better/how valuable would a system like this be?
If it was set up properly and easy to use, and had valuable information i think the value to teams that already have a scouting system set up and know how to use it would be great. But also for rookie teams or teams that just haven't yet really gotten into scouting the benefits would be huge. A system that encompased all the regionals would be a great asset to the FIRST community.