Official Google Wave Kickoff Thread

[Rion Atkinson]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Ok guys, we have some decisions to make. Simply put, our web browsers will not be able to handle the amount of traffic that will occur on kickoff day with 100+ people on the wave. With 3 people typing at once yesterday firefox was hitting 500MB of memory and 100% cpu time. It'd also be practically inefficient to try to read what 100+ people are typing all at once anyways. So I'd like to propose working groups. These would be groups of people on a waves of whom are attending different regionals, work on different subsystems, etc.

If we want to start a MWR wave, for example, then we'd go to the "Regional Competitions" forum and start a thread just for those attending that regional. We can discuss strategies, robots, CA, how to help teams through inspections (especially those who don't think they need any help...), etc. As a more public and permanent place to put those types of things, we can start a CD thread with the results.

What do you guys & gals think?

That's a wonderful idea. I just see one problem... The Oklahoma City Regional have 55 team. Yes I know that is a lot, but we still have a problem. Being a young regional; all the teams tend to keep to themselves. I don't know of anyone that goes to our regional that is even on Chief Delphi. (Now this isn't saying much. I do tend to be the uninformed one.) But I don't think many of the teams check here enough to benefit from the waves anymore than they would from CD.

That being said. Where would someone like myself go? I am pretty sure I am not the only one in this situation. I could stick with CD only seeing as I have no wave to join. Or would I find a Wave about drivetrains, end effectors, or chassis that was meant for another regional? What would you suggest?