[DFTF] Required Reading

[Joe Johnson]

This is part of a series of posts called Drinking From The Firehose on getting Dr Joe back up to speed on All Things FIRST.

Links, send me your links.

The first thing I am going to say is that I know enough about FIRST to know that I have to RT-M*

Okey dokey. BUT WHICH MANUALS?!?! There are so many sources of information, blogs, guides, how to's, etc.

I am going to start here at the 2011 FRC Kit of Parts website but even this list is 40 or so documents. Which ones are the critical ones?

The 2011 Competition Manual and Related Documents is another blizzard of documents swirling around.

I am sure there are others to read as well.

Then there are How to, blogs and forums and e-mails and updates and...

Here is what I am asking for.

Help me come up with a list of stuff I have to read NOW (before our first team meeting), stuff I need to read soon (say before Halloween), stuff to read before the kickoff.

THEN... ...I need to know what I need to do to keep up with things. Which forums on CD are must reads? Bill's Blog is obviously essential. But what else?

Do your best to break it down for me. I am getting old.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Joe J.



*I'm the kind of guy who swears from time to time, but I try not to. I don't even like to type the F in WT-. I'm not a prude, I just think that few conversations are improved by dropping f bombs into the mix.