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Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL

ERV, NJ: 204.FIRST@gmail.com
Team Roboto, 447, IN 447.FIRST@gmail.com
1093.VA: 1093.First@gmail.com
Braughtswurtz Robotics : 1571.FIRST@gmail.com
(The next team copys the above list and then adds they contact information at end and then post).

Please follow this.
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Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL

Thats a great Idea! ill have Lisa make one ffor our team
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Wow. . . .Rufus this has really taken off. . ..
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Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL

well i was thinking, we may have a great format. But we don't have anyway of archiving them on one easy to use page. So I created....

First Gmail Network-A Google Group

Now any team that has one can join the group. When you feel like it you can browse the member list and you got a contact on a bunch of teams. The more teams we have, the easier it will be to find that team you've been trying to contact, so if you haven't yet, Make one!
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Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL

It's funny this comes up. Next season I am having all of my students create & use g-mail as their robotics team e-mail. Each student will have an e-mail of student340@gmail.com, maybe I will change it to student.340.FIRST@gmail.com. Many of the students have already gotten on board so I probably won't. Oddly I still need to create one like that myself. I have been using g-mail for the better part of 6 months & I have found it better than any other public e-mail system out there.
To continue on with this thread I will create 340.FIRST@gmail.com right now. This really is a great idea as long as somebody checks the team e-mail.

Nice thinking

... 340.FIRST@gmail.com is now created & so is jrees340@gmail.com. both are linked so there is no need to send to both.

Again great idea, now it's time to look into a google group account for the team. I will have to compare it to our team's yahoo group account.

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Team 1640 now has 1640.FIRST@gmail.com
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Team 114 is now on board, 114.first@gmail.com!
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Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL

WOW! I'm glad this is taking off!

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well i was thinking, we may have a great format. But we don't have anyway of archiving them on one easy to use page. So I created....

First Gmail Network-A Google Group

Now any team that has one can join the group. When you feel like it you can browse the member list and you got a contact on a bunch of teams. The more teams we have, the easier it will be to find that team you've been trying to contact, so if you haven't yet, Make one!
Great idea! I hope everyone will take the extra step and join this too.
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Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL

I'll have to talk to our student leader when she comes back before i make one of these, but it sounds like a really good idea if you want other teams to be able to get ahold of you. And i have noticed that Gmail is a good Email service, though i use msn the most personally.
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As much as we'd like to think it, every FIRST team doesn't read Chief Delphi. If the logic behind this Gmail system is sound (and I think it is), perhaps someone "in the know" could contact FIRST and ask them to send out an email blast to all teams suggesting they set up an address using this new format? As previously suggested by many, each team leader could then simply set up a mail forward to their preferred email address through the Gmail settings. Those who did not want to open themselves up to contact from other teams could simply choose not to participate, although I hope there wouldn't be too many people who picked this option.

I only suggest this because access to the Team Contact database through TIMS was removed this past season, I believe due to privacy reasons - some people didn't want their private emails shared with others. Instituting the Gmail solution provides a nice, safe buffer to protect their true email addys from any malicious evildoers, and it makes it much easier and faster for people to contact representatives on other teams (a very important aspect of organizing something like a pre-ship scrimmage, an event we stage every year in February).

Please FIRST, spread the word so inter-team communication can be improved.
In an era where FIRST is decentralizing their administrative duties and spreading them to a regional level, having a tool like this could only help the regional staffs improve communication to their local teams. Perhaps this will help improve awareness and attendance at events like the team forums, which many teams did not even know about?
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Please FIRST, spread the word so inter-team communication can be improved.
In an era where FIRST is decentralizing their administrative duties and spreading them to a regional level, having a tool like this could only help the regional staffs improve communication to their local teams. Perhaps this will help improve awareness and attendance at events like the team forums, which many teams did not even know about?
Reading this makes me think they could make some kind of contact system which automatically forwards to the TIMS team leader (ie: team47@email.usfirst.org ) and doesn't require an additional gmail account. Of course this would require initial work on FIRSTs part, but it would keep it centralized and auto-updated based on TIMS updates, and wouldn't depend on GMail.
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Reading this makes me think they could make some kind of contact system which automatically forwards to the TIMS team leader (ie: team47@email.usfirst.org ) and doesn't require an additional gmail account. Of course this would require initial work on FIRSTs part, but it would keep it centralized and auto-updated based on TIMS updates, and wouldn't depend on GMail.
Suits me, Brandon! As long as there's some form of "easy" team number based method of communicating with teams. Scouring through team websites (assuming they have them) and searching the yellow pages looking for school district phone numbers, all in an effort to locate a team's leader, is a major time-consuming chore!

Of course Google and FIRST are now good buddies so I'm sure a Gmail-based communications system would be a positive-PR bonanza for both.
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Reading this makes me think they could make some kind of contact system which automatically forwards to the TIMS team leader (ie: team47@email.usfirst.org ) and doesn't require an additional gmail account. Of course this would require initial work on FIRSTs part, but it would keep it centralized and auto-updated based on TIMS updates, and wouldn't depend on GMail.
Agreed, I've been thinking that while reading this thread as well, since it also poses less potential for violating Gmail's terms of use. When I first signed up they had a policy against having more than 1 account but I can't find it now. Even if they don't really enforce it, as a group we should try to respect their wishes (like I said though, I can't find anything forbidding it at this time, but they change policies like that regularly).

The other problem I see with this Gmail setup is that you don't really know who's on the other end. Is it the team admin and/or someone who can "speak" for the team? Nothing against any of you who have created the accounts here, but if I had something important to communicate to a team I don't think I'd trust this method to work. How do you even know that if you contact "2175.FIRST@gmail.com" and it goes through that it really is someone from team 2175, and not someone else trying to cause trouble (just because you wouldn't do this doesn't mean someone else won't).

Expanding on Brandon's idea, I think it'd be neat to have a URL redirector, so that http://team111.frc.usfirst.org would redirect to 111's web page. That would make it easy to find any team's website (as long as they registered it with FIRST), AND you could use it for the email forwarder (admin@team111.frc.usfirst.org). This way, the service could also "fail gracefully" when the information isn't available. Team 2175 hasn't registered their website? Then http://team2175.frc.usfirst.org displays a nice "We're sorry, but this team has not registered their website." message. Same thing for email: anything sent to admin@team2175.frc.usfirst.org would be returned, perhaps with any other relevant information "This team has not registered an admin email address, but they have provided a website available at http://team2175.frc.usfirst.org."
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