[Site Release] FRCPITCREW.COM

[Nathan Streeter]

Sounds like it has a lot of potential! I'm registering/signing up...

I think how much use this gets could be dramatically limited if few teams are informed about this. Perhaps once a number of people have registered on FRC Pit Crew, you guys could ask FIRST to mention it in one of the upcoming announcement e-mails to all teams?

Seems to me that for many questions (i.e. 'is this strategy or implementation legal?', 'please review/comment on my manipulator/drivetrain design.') Chief Delphi will still be a better avenue because you can get a variety of opinions and you're not limited to one individual's response time/availability... FRC Pit Crew is probably better served for something closer to a 'rent-a-mentor' service where some ongoing help is needed on a team that has a 'gap' in experience.

[MysterE]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

Sounds like it has a lot of potential! I'm registering/signing up...

I think how much use this gets could be dramatically limited if few teams are informed about this. Perhaps once a number of people have registered on FRC Pit Crew, you guys could ask FIRST to mention it in one of the upcoming announcement e-mails to all teams?

Seems to me that for many questions (i.e. 'is this strategy or implementation legal?', 'please review/comment on my manipulator/drivetrain design.') Chief Delphi will still be a better avenue because you can get a variety of opinions and you're not limited to one individual's response time/availability... FRC Pit Crew is probably better served for something closer to a 'rent-a-mentor' service where some ongoing help is needed on a team that has a 'gap' in experience.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

Our goal in creating the site was to establish a new avenue for Mentorship that involved a more one-on-one interaction base than CD offers. What I am hoping is that we eventually have enough teams registered that any question could be legitimately answered through a phone/email/video-conference type contact for the expressed reason of increasing team interaction.

I am reminded of all of the times that our team made contact to others for help and in many of those cases have developed long-term relationships and friendships that aid us during competitions when CD is not as readily available.