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Ken Delaney 357 Ken Delaney 357 is offline
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Re: A new step in collaboration: FIRST Programmers' Guild

[quote=Astronouth7303]So, what/how are we going to do this?
  1. A ChiefDelphi sub-forum?
  2. Independent hosting?
  3. Mailing list?
  4. In-person meetings?

QUOTE]

Don't overlook number four. There are clusters of FIRST teams around the world. Teams should try and get together in the off season to work on code issues in groups. During regionals so many good ideas are discussed but you rarely have any time to try things out. Also a lot of good code rely on sensors and many team have no experience with them. In the fall of 04 and 05 team 487 had a programming seminar using the Robovation kits to get team familiar with code. It was great. When we host the remote kick-off the programming seminars(Thanks 487 and 272 for presenting) are always packed and usually run over. I can only speak about the Philly area, but there are about 25 teams within 45 minutes of each other. It would be beneficial to set up programming meetings to demonstrate code/control solutions.
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Last edited by Ken Delaney 357 : 09-04-2005 at 23:11.