Please read! FRC.Stackexchange Proposal

[BenjaminWard]

Hey CD!

I originally wrote about this on reddit's r/FRC, but some people suggested that I post about this here.

I know a lot of programming teams use resources like StackOverflow, but now myself and other FIRST members and alumni are trying to create a StackExchange site exclusively for FIRST Robotics teams. Possible topics would be basically anything that's applicable to CD, such firmware upgrades, electrical best practices and tips, mechanical tricks and strategies, programming questions, math applying to mechanical/electrical/programming (and CAD as well), and everything else FRC related. And I mean everything. The advantages of having a StackExchange network page as well as Chief Delphi are an easier question and answer structure: essentially people can get help when they need it, and mark answers as correct. This helps people in the future to find the solution to that problem, instead of scrolling through the whole CD thread for the solution.

Personally, I think that Chief Delphi is much more applicable to discussion based topics, such as game strategy, speculation, etc., however a SE site would be a much better fit for technical questions, questions about specific game rules, and similar topics that fit the Q-and-A format.

Here's a link to sign up: http://area51.stackexchange.com/prop...Jf4eKpJpcRrJA2 (This is a referral link, please use it!)

So please set up a StackExchange account if you don't already have one, and help us upvote good sample questions, and add some of your own (please ask and upvote as much as you can). We need 22 more followers and 36 more questions with a score of 10 to get to the next stage.

A note, please do not upvote questions above the 10 score mark. It is much better to spread the points around to other questions that are not yet at that score rather than using your 5 upvotes uselessly.

Help us, and help yourselves and your teams! This will be a fantastic team resource if we can get it up off of the ground.