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Unread 15-06-2005, 18:30
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Re: FLL Resource Website
Hey Mayhem,

This is SMART team from CT. I've also been thinking of ways to promote FLL and provide resources to teams. One idea I had was starting an FLL wiki. Then I stumbled accross the already existing FIRSTwiki at...

http://www.firstwiki.org

Imagine my chagrin. Anyway I've been working there to create templates and navigation to make it easy for FLL teams to put up a page about their teams. I've also been editing some FLL related pages. I think a wiki is a great way to accomplish some of your goals. I'd encourage you to check it out. As soon as I've got some nice templates done I'm going to make a "how to post your team page/tournament page how to's" and advertise it to the World Festival teams (since I know who they are), and then post it to the FLL forum when it opens in September. Hopefully there will be some team, tournament, and informational pages up there to encourage people.

I don't think it is a complete solution though as a proper wiki should follow the prescript of NPOV (no point of view). Also, there is no facility for discussion forums. It would be a great starting point for FLL teams to search though. I'm also thinking it will bind the FRC, FVC, and FLL together in peoples minds which is a goal I'm sure you can appreciate having started an FRC team in addition to your FLL team.

I've created our team page as a sample at http://www.firstwiki.org/SMART. Still working on the categorization though.

Cheers,

Peter

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Originally Posted by Jeepfreak
Hello!

I am representing FRC Team 1519 Mechanical Mayhem and FLL team Mindstorms Mayhem. Both the teams have websites (www.team1519.org and www.mindstormsmayhem.org) and the FRC team is trying to get a FLL resource website started. The idea is to have a website for FLL teams that can act as a central location (like chiefdelphi.com) for veteran teams, rookies, and people thinking about starting a team.

Current Ideas we have:
  • building tutorials
  • team building resources
  • challenge resources
  • intro pages for teams
  • discussion forums
  • 'starting an FLL team' resources
Any suggestions/comments/ideas?