[seanwitte]

What do you mean by Open Source? I think a lot of people have different ideas about what that means. I have no strong feelings about OSS either way, but opening a product like that up to the community will create a "design by committee" atmosphere that is not really conducive to producing results. FIRST will want one person who is ultimately responsible and accountable for the software.

Instead of making it Open Source, why don't you recruit a team and submit a proposal to FIRST stating the objective. Your proposal should include information stating who is directly accountable for the end product. Your proposal should also include resumes and the method by which the project will be managed. Building a distributed realtime match management system should be possible assuming all regionals have internet connectivity.

If you choose to do it for free then they might just take you up on it. Sending them an email saying "make is Open Source" will get you nowhere.