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Like the new Yearbook Pages...
Posted by Joe Johnson at 2/4/2001 3:19 PM EST
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems. In Reply to: FIPN - FIRST Intellectual Property Network Posted by Robby on 2/4/2001 3:04 AM EST: When I was told to write up a "Delphi Award" proposal after Delphi became and official sponsor of FIRST, I proposed a written submission for a robot feature or "best practice" that teams would submit in a standard format that FIRST would publish on the web and in a book form. What I envisioned was something like what FIRST has done with the Yearboob Page submissions. Everyone has the same page format, font, picture sizes etc. At the time, FIRST was loath to deal with the hassles of collecting everyone's submissions and publishing them. Now that they have worked out the bugs by doing essentially the same thing for the Yearbook Page, maybe they would be interested in expanding it to allow teams to submit an added page for robot feature or best practice. If FIRST then published these pages it would be a HUGE leap forward in helping to get teams up to speed fast with robot design and build. Think about it. If an award was given for the best submissions (perhaps a winner and a number of finalists), teams would have a self interest in publishing their very best cool thing the have done. In the same way that Patents put ideas in the public domain, this process would "pay" teams (with the currency of the realm -- recognition) for revealing their best kept secrets. Then others would be able to use them and even improve upon them. What do you think? Joe J. |
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