[Kevin Sevcik]

I never said it had to be a design by committee. Go to Sourceforge and check out all the FOSS stuff there. There are tons of highly organized rapidly moving projects there. There's no reason that everyone has to vote on everything in the project. The sensible way to work it would be for FIRST to hire a Linux developer or someone experienced in managing FOSS projects. This person would be in charge of directing the volunteer programmers, organizing the project, and vetting all code to be incorporated into the system.

The whole point of FOSS is to have a really large team working on the project. More eyes on the code means more bugs found faster. I would say that FIRST could just post the source code for the current Hatch system, except that it's quite probably proprietary code that can't legally be opened.