FIRST History on TechnoKats website

[BandChick]

WOW, this is wonderful! You can bet when we revamp the NYC/NJ FIRST website to reflect new growth and incorporate our history, we will definitely be grabbing some of this information and linking out to this GREAT resource!

Thanks!

[Bongle]

Alright, team 45's stuff is now splattered all over the game pages for 1992-2000. It's mainly used for references and images. I hope your website is relatively stable so those links don't break.

On another note, many of your 2001 pdfs have broken links.

[AmyPrib]

Well this is almost a 2yr project still in the works. Still working to get everything functional on the site but we should be stable enough... We only posted what we thought would be of most interest to the general FIRST community at this point. Pretty neat for the younger kids to see the games in existence before they were born!

Will ask our webmaster student if he can check on the broken links. We also have the last 6yrs of stuff ready to go up, but just needing the time.

Also just finished the 150+ VHS to DVD conversion...Some day, we might be able to get some online, but that will be a lot of work and time. But now I can finally get rid of the 4 storage totes of tapes at my place.

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

It would be cool if FIRST could set up a portable museam with a look back at it's history at the championships so everybody could see how FIRST was.

If anyone wants to stop by Team 45's pit in Atlanta, we expect to have many of the DVDs with us to play on our kiosk, as well as some history stuff. We have video dating back to 1987! I may post a list of what video we do have in case people are interested.

Originally Posted by Bongle

Alright, team 45's stuff is now splattered all over the game pages for 1992-2000. It's mainly used for references and images. I hope your website is relatively stable so those links don't break.

On another note, many of your 2001 pdfs have broken links.

[Ellery]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

(thanks, Ian)

This is an ongoing project. Eventually, we do want to get the early year matches hosted so the FIRST community can see them. Most are now in DVD format.

As we make updates, someone from the team will update this thread and let folks know what is new.

Andy B.

If you're looking for some old school videos I have some on my webserver http://team191.servehttp.com


Videos from 1992- current


BTW great job Amy & Team 45 - this is a well worth activity that I've been trying to do as well on our team but we have to move our whole facility in May/June this year so we have alot of upheaval going on right now.

[Bongle]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Yes, please do. This stuff is available for anyone to use.

Andy b.

According to an admin on wikipedia, I must get very explicit permission:

Short version: Do you permit your images to be uploaded to wikipedia under the GFDL? This means that your image may be modified, redistributed, and possibly used for commercial purposes.

Long version. Here is the wiki-recommended copyright-getting letter:

I am writing to confirm whether permission is granted to use the archived Technokats images from your website under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL ).


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Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

Bongle!

[AmyPrib]

FYI - I created a list of all our videos. We'll probably play them on our pit kiosk in atlanta and just cycle thru them.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1977

[MGoelz]

This is really amazing! I looked through all of the games and I was really impressed. It is really cool to look back, before our team was ever around, and see how robots were made differently and what rules have been added. It is really spectacular to see the progression of FIRST!

[Cartwright]

I agree, the History Project section is really cool. It is really neat to see how a team that is twice as old as we are worked way back then. And it is also interesting to see how far FIRST has come since then!

[Joe Ross]

It looks like the history project has disappeared from the TechnoKats website. Is it being resurrected?

[Schnabel]

The site is undergoing a huge overhaul right now, it should be back up in the next month or two.