Paper

[Josh Hambright]

I think just doing it the way most teams already do it. Which is make a sheet that has the same fields on it as your digital database and then just filling out the sheet and later entering them by hand is the easiest and most robust method. Since each team has the option of using as much or as little of the unified system as they choose it wouldn't be neccisary to make standardized sheets (Though if someone just wants to use the system stock off the shelf then making an appropriate scouting sheet would be a good idea). If teams want to use a palm or laptop and scout directly into that, and as long as it can intergrate into the system they have which can inturn intergrate into the big unified system then there is no reason why that wouldn't work either.

If a team wants to set up a scan tron system or a system to use a scanner to read the text they thats up to them but since this is open source and everyone is going to have the own ways of doing stuff and their own individual systems if they want them then they can do what they wish. If a team wants to set up a scanning system of some sort and share it with a whole regional thats great, but it really doesn't matter how they get their data into the system as long as it gets into the system.