Unfortunately, I think the CODEX meetings were somewhat dulled by the fact that we had no organization, agenda, or idea as to what we were doing. If we manage to go to Nationals next year (3/5 points... need 2 more), I promise we'll be more organized
Thursday was fun, because we had a lot of people (around 20) that showed up. After around 2 minutes of waiting on people to show up (bad idea, it meant that we lost a lot of people that should've gone), we moved to the wooded area in front of the FIRST sign and before Epcot and had a group discussion of everything from the default program to ramp-up code. Unfortunately, I think some people got either overwhelmed or scared off, because not everyone came back Friday.
Friday, we waited for 15 minutes for people to arrive (only around 15 did, with some new people) and then moved back to the wooded area, and split up into two groups. The first group, led by Linda (from 422) went over the basics of programming for first-timers. The second group (my group) discussed some advanced coding, but we didn't have that much time. I had to leave early because we were the first match after lunch (and my team actually managed to queue without the OI... d'oh...), but not before Ashlee and I made a serious attempt to search for 111 programmers and Mike Soukup. We were all really curious to know how you pulled off crab drive code-wise
We also announced the new CODEX website -
www.first-codex.net. The site will soon have the ability to submit articles, and the forums are up, so everyone should check it out and register with the forums soon. I hope you and the WildStang programmers, Chris, get together and write an article on how to pull of crab drive mechanically and in programming, as well as a description as to what it is