Organization of online resources- needs work?

[Nancy O.]

Hi all,
I'm here to express some frustration with the plethora of resources online. Not the resources themselves, but the fact that they're scattered all over the place.

For instance, here are some great sites, each with tons of info and links to more info:
http://www.mentorsearch.us/training
http://first.wpi.edu/
http://firstdev.wpi.edu/
http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...nt.aspx?id=478
http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...t.aspx?id=7006
http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...t.aspx?id=7010
http://www.firstroboticscanada.org/site/resources
http://www.firstwiki.net/ (which is mirrored at http://wiki.chiefdelphi.com/ ?)
http://www.firstnemo.org/resources.htm

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/...s_Competition/
http://art.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ResourcesLinks
http://kevin.org/frc/
http://frcoder.sourceforge.net/

http://firstbasefrc.autodesk.com/?nd=home
http://decibel.ni.com/content/community/first
http://www.ptc.com/appserver/common/account/student.jsp

http://forums.usfirst.org/
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/
http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/
http://www.thebluealliance.net

http://www.fsrobotics.org/moe365//mo.../moementum.php
http://www.mvrt.com/2008/resources/trainings.php
http://www.team358.org/files/
http://www.simbotics.org/workshops
http://team341.com/tiabdocs/tiab_blue.html
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/?
http://wiki.robojackets.org/w/TE_Sessions

It's just really, really annoying to download six gazillion files to dig through, and then to not be able to trace back where I got it from. It just plain, gives me a headache X___x

Also, they're often stuck on individual team websites and it's not clear which ones can be reused or modified (apologies to MOE, but for me personally, it hurts to look at the site, and disabling styles isn't ideal) or updated. They're of varying quality. Many of them are stuck in pdf format which makes it difficult to reuse. Half the links on chiefdelphi's portal are dead. Some of them are just text on websites, which get lost since I tend to look at files which are in the majority.

Is there no way, instead of having resources on individual team websites, to instead have a central repository? Where the stuff from all the documents etc. is available online in the browser, and the downloading is only if you like it and want to print something off. And it's clear what type of I suppose license everything is under. Some sort of collaboration to improve existing resources or organize them instead of dumping files online. So the files are, like a wiki, open to everyone to update or create derivatives for their own uses. A distinction between print versions, which are static and can be outdated but were used at one point, and the online version, which should always be up-to-date.

Or at least some sort of social bookmarking, where users can submit, rate, take notes from, comment on the quality of, tag resources. E.g. comment on each individual file. Also, there are links and documents on the wide web not specific to FIRST but still completely applicable, that could be organized in reference to FIRST.

Can't we do better? There's so many great resources, I just feel like they're all buried in this massive pile of a combination of webpages and files.

What do you guys do to sort through all of this? Is there some other solution? Thoughts in general?

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Disclaimer: I believe this is the right subforum, don't kill me if it's not :) Also, feel free to take out the link pluggage, but these are all genuinely useful. And I likely left a lot of awesome sites out, sorry, I'm only human!