**FIRST EMAIL**/Welcome to the 2007 FRC Season!

[Rich Wong]

Greetings Teams:

Welcome to the 2007 FRC Season! We hope you all have had a wonderful summer and are looking forward to another great year of robotics fun and challenge - we certainly are!

Our "2007 Calendar of Important Deadline Dates" can now be found at http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2007/frc_time.htm and for those of you who have not yet seen our "2007 Event Schedule" it is posted at http://www.usfirst.org/frc/public/

We want to point out that Pre-registration will begin on line via the Team Information Management System (TIMS) September 21st at 12:00 noon EDT. Please remember all teams are required to complete the pre-registration process prior to being able to select an event during event registration, which starts October 2nd at 12:00 noon EDT.

We are looking forward to having you all back with us this season. As always, if you have any questions please contact us at frcteams@usfirst.org.

Go Teams!

[JohnBoucher]

Will TIMS be open today? It is not at the moment.

[Mark McLeod]

I remember it opening late last year as well.
In fact I remember having this same conversation with all of you last year.
Eager aren't we?

https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims

[JohnBoucher]

But I gave it an extra 26 minutes...

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

I remember it opening late last year as well.
In fact I remember having this same conversation with all of you last year.
Eager aren't we?

https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso

[Elgin Clock]

Looks to be open now. The page loads anyways.

I don't know about logging in. But.... yeah.

[Mark McLeod]

Yep, logged in and typing away...

I actually read all that stuff too.
The good news is TIMS is populated with last year's team information, so there's not a lot of work to do if things haven't changed much.

[JohnBoucher]

Me too

[rees2001]

Anyone else get "Bad Hacker"? I'm using firefox, I will try IE.
Uh, Oh. Same result.

[yodameister]

I got it as well

[Brandon Martus]

Rather than clicking the link above, start here: https://my.usfirst.org/

[rees2001]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Rather than clicking the link above, start here: https://my.usfirst.org/

Thanks, works.

[yodameister]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Rather than clicking the link above, start here: https://my.usfirst.org/

I did this and got to where I wanted to go. Thanks for the help.

[RoboMom]

FIRST is allowing option this year of sharing your contact info with other teams.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

FIRST is allowing option this year of sharing your contact info with other teams.

The option was there last year as well. In fact TIMS still has my contact info. checked to share from last year, so I didn't have to do anything.

Will they really share the contact data this year? Just to teams who want to be mentored?

[RoboMom]

When I helped beta testing the TIMS last week, there was a link to page showing contacts. It needed some tweaks but my understanding is that it will be available this year. FIRST got feedback that teams really wanted this.
Can't remember what the box says (I have a dummy record and dummy team . Do you have to indicate wanting mentoring?