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Originally Posted by sanddrag
You can come to robotics and sit and play computer games for 60 hours or you can come and spend 40 hours building a frame and gearbox. To me, time logging is worthless.
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We agree. We have a problem with people playing games and looking up shoes on the Internet (why?). Because our mentors want a large team, it is almost unmanageable. Many people want to go to robotics as a social event and to say they were doing robotics. We try to subtract hours from unproductive people, but that is hard too. We have the time log so there would be a quantitative way to see if people should be allowed to miss school for the competitions. People want to be able to go to the competitions, but they also want fair treatment. They think if they go to the meetings, they should be able to go to the competitions. If we were to do it qualitatively (how much did you contribute instead of how long you "worked") then people would complain that they contributed, but no one noticed or that the powers that be just over looked their contributions. While I think that everyone should have a chance, I think that if their contributions weren't large enough to be noticed, then they didn't contribute enough to go. But not everyone agrees.
The time stamp system flawed to a great extent, but a better time stamp is a good idea for the flawed system. The advantage to such a system is that it can be expanded to include more than clocking in. It could be possible to have chats when we can't meet in person, to post minutes of meeting, and distribute information. Sounds like a job for a website more than an application, but applications have their advantages, too.