Thread: Please read R17
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Unread 26-02-2006, 19:21
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Re: Please read R17

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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli
Bottom line is that 6 weeks is not enough. It never has been enough. Now, with this year's rules you needed to be done in four weeks compared to six weeks in previous years.
Maybe that's the point.
You need to be DONE in 6 weeks; then back to your kids and job.

It seems like FIRST is making a statement saying "Dragging this out into a 12 week process, is not what we intend to happen. 6 weeks, means 6 weeks."

Like Joe, I don't want to put words in FIRST's mouth, but this seems to me to be a pretty clear attempt to force engineers in FIRST to NOT work on FIRST. "Ok, robots have shipped, go do real work and wait for regionals."

I'm not saying I agree (in fact, I don't), but this could be a direction the powers-that-be want us to take.

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