**FIRST EMAIL**/Invitation to Beta test the New Control System

[Kims Robot]

Originally Posted by Leav

Hi Kim (and anyone else who submitted for more than 3 teams)
just wondering: what your rational was in submitting for so many teams?
do you plan on moving the controller between those teams evenly?
or perhaps all those teams are the one's who are in your area and will benefit from your team having a controller and giving classes on it?

In Rochester, a lot of the teams work together on several different things, everything from Ruckus planning to local demos to helping the Rookie/younger teams. While our team probably has the strongest labview base, there are other teams that were very interested but just didnt feel they could handle running the whole Beta test themselves. We took the lead and asked them to join us because we feel they will have expertise and time that could help us as well, and want more than just our team to have hands on with this system.

We will likely be the center team, hosting the controller, but we had plans of having saturdays where other teams could bring their robot in, demos at Ruckus, webcast trainings and phone conferences to involve teams further out, and a lot of documentation on our wiki & forums. We will be inviting all of the teams that want to drive out here to be involved in any/all of the process, but these were just the teams that we have been interacting with for Ruckus planning and the teams that have been attending our Labview training all summer.

I think for us, it just made sense, we can run the Beta testing, but bring in expertise from all the other teams in the area to help out and assist in problems as welll as taking time to teach as many teams as we can.