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Originally Posted by Jack Jones
I don’t think anyone here is against collaboration, per se, but they don’t like the direction it has taken.
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I believe Jack has got it here, we are not all against collaboration, It's just that for some of us we fell that it has gotten to an extreme. I know a lot of teams which have collaborated to help out with other teams during the season, and even to help get teams started look at 188 role in the early days of FIRST in Canada, and even ourselves 610 have helped to try and start a few teams. But I truly feel that there is now a difference between the original definition of collaboration where a more experienced team will help start a rookie team, and the collaboration we see now with the triplets and other teams. These teams have developed collaboration to a point where the more experienced team becomes much more involved in growing and developing the rookie teams, and they end up acting almost like one large team.
I am all for collaboration in the sense of experienced teams helping to start and keep alive rookie teams. But what I fear with this more extreme level of collaboration is that these rookie teams are resting on the knowledge of the more experienced teams, and not getting the full FIRST experience of going through the struggles and learning experiences of designing your first robot, getting funding for your first event, and gathering the required student support. The question is not are you against collaboration, it is do you feel that this level of collaboration is beneficial for the rookie teams in the long run, and for FIRST.