my idea of a question forum...

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Ken,
Joe Johnson, Raul, Andy Baker, myself and others have talked about just such an idea a couple of times this year. We came to one conclusion that the person(s) answering the questions would, by necessity, need to exclude themselves from competition or team work. It would need to be done by people who have no interests in that particular year's competition in order to be believable by the persons asking the questions. As much as we believe in "gracious professionalism", it is a hard thing to trust for newcomers to the competition. By excluding yourself from competing you lend trust to the question and answer.
However, e-mail and this forum would be able to speed things up quite a bit as many of us check the boards during lunch and evenings and could render some answers pretty quick. Sort of like an advisory tech team to FIRST. (who during the season gets pretty bogged down with all the tasks that need to be done.)
Season's Greetings All