Team Email List (help needed)

[Nancy O.]

Hey all,
I'm going to try and collect student emails from all the teams for Championships, but the thing is unlike for regionals I don't think I can quite conquer four divisions by myself ^^;; so I was hoping a few students from each division could help me out?

I just go around to each team systematically and, if they aren't busy, ask if any of the students check their email regularly / if they would give me a few email addresses for a student-to-student email list. I tell them it's all going to be bcc and no spam etc. until I figure out how I can securely make an email list, and only after they give explicit permission to be included. (y'know, golden rule and everything, and I really am paranoid XD)

I've been looking around for a while, and I've never been able to find any such thing. I know FIRST has an email blast and a list of mentor's emails, but I think for privacy reasons they don't give it out? If I'm wrong please tell me, compiling these things is a lot of work... >.<

I'd really like this be students only, please! Anyway, the reasoning behind this all is that I'd really like to be able to contact other teams sometimes, and not all teams are on Chiefdelphi. Especially the teams we should reach out too, I think. Plus it's hard to tell if the CD emails are active etc. I think more cooperation is always better :D

I'd like it to be students b/c (a) they often reply faster and (b) it's intimidating talking to mentors for me :P

So, is anyone willing to help out? If we divvy it up between a few students for each division it'll go by much quicker. (Normally a few teams will be out, at matches etc., but together we can track them down faster :D)

Please reply here, pm me, or drop by 1261's pit tomorrow morning (we're in archimedes). Thanks a bunch!

If you get asked tomorrow, please really give an email that actually gets checked, and be considerate! Write in all caps if possible >_<;;

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Hey I can help out if needed, but what do I need to do?

I can collect emails while collecting pins in medes if you want, but I need specifics.

[AdamHeard]

What is the purpose for this list?

why only teams that are only at champs?

[vivek16]

TIMS can do the same thing for mentors I believe.

[Alex Dinsmoor]

What I'm thinking is that people can give their emails to someone and they can compile it and send it to the database.

[Nancy O.]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

What is the purpose for this list?
why only teams that are only at champs?

Just to make it easier for students from different teams to contact each other. I.e., if I wanted to ask a team how they made their cool claw-thingy work, but didn't get a chance too, I could send off an email w/o bothering same mentors with something that's not really important :O

No reason, the more teams the better! =) But this thread was just asking for volunteers to help at champs with pit-to-pit email collecting, in person, that's all.

Originally Posted by vivek16

TIMS can do the same thing for mentors I believe.

Really? I couldn't find any inter-team contact info. Am I missing something?

Originally Posted by Alex Dinsmoor

Hey I can help out if needed, but what do I need to do? I can collect emails while collecting pins in medes if you want, but I need specifics.

Uh... basically I've hand-written (i know, it took me a while XD) a list of team numbers that I don't have emails for, spaced out appropriately, and you just hand it off to appropriate people to write down their email adds. That's all :D
Uhm, it would be easiest for me to have people drop by 1261's pit and grab the papers/get details but I can go out and find you... doesn't seem like that many people will volunteer anyways >.<;;

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Well I can help in any way possible, I will go to your pit tomorrow morning and look for you. Then you can give me all of the details on what I need to do. That would be the simplest way.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by vivek16

TIMS can do the same thing for mentors I believe.

Originally Posted by Nancy O.

Really? I couldn't find any inter-team contact info. Am I missing something?

As I understand it, TIMS used to make contact information (including email addresses) available to other teams, but that feature was removed.

I'm not a TIMS user, so I can't say this from first-hand knowledge, and I might have it wrong.

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Hey I heard you came by the pits looking for me, and sadly I was not there. I would have came to you but I forgot your team number... I am online and you can give me a call (2four82onezerofour01four) if you want to start something early morning.