How does this fit in with FIRST’s Virtual Technical Advisor program?
Our understanding of the VTA program is that it is targeted at connecting adult mentors/advisors with teams that might not otherwise have adequate technical help. Technical advisors can communicate with teams in any of a variety of ways of their choice. The VTA program was announced after we had begun efforts to organize FRSee, but given the current rapid development of electronic communication means, it is not surprising to see these two programs emerge.
FRSee is designed to promote team-with-team collaboration, and takes place entirely via Skype video calls. FRSee also welcomes mentors, alumni, and advisors to join and monitor the network if they would like to visit with teams at their build sites. Just give us a Skype name that we can share with the network.
All signed up. I hope we can be of assistance to anyone during the season!
This is great guys! I’m sure the team would love to use this for numerous help. I will talk to my mentors as well about this incorporation.
Just a reminder that when you join FRSee, please also send us your email address to FRSee.mail@gmail.com so that we have another means of sending you team contact list updates. It appears contacts sent to you through Skype can sometimes experience long delays in reaching you. Not sure if this is normal behavior. The team contact list can also always be found at www.teamtitanium.org/FRSee
This is a great idea, and I can’t wait to hopefully convince the rest of 1071 to get onboard with it.
For those who have tried to sign up or otherwise access Skype today, it seems they have had a very rare outage. Here’s the story: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/12/skype-is-down/1
Evidently the first time since 2007. Must be all the traffic fom FRsee!
Skype appears to be back up now. We would be interested in knowing if anyone is still having trouble establishing an account, or if you have not received a message and contacts from FRSee since you sign-up.
This is an excellent idea! I’ve created a team account and added you to our contacts. I’m hoping this will be as useful as it can be, there’s definitely a lot of potential here.
We would like to encourage everyone to spread the word about FRSee at your local Kick-Off Events next Saturday. If you have input to the agenda at your event, please consider making your teams aware of this opportunity. If you are a team mentor or member that is aware of FRSee, please help spread the word to other teams in your region.
The FRSee website: www.teamtitanium.org/FRSee
Post or hand out this flyer at your Kick-Off Event.
Read or print the FRSee Getting Started Guide
For questions or comments drop us an email at FRSee.mail@gmail.com
Thanks for the flyer, I’ll make a whole bunch and hand them out next Saturday.
Just wanted to tickle this thread one more time before Saturday as a reminder for everyone to sign up as you get your students and computers together for your build season. Mentors, give a student that needs something to do the task of getting your FRSee account set up and monitored. They live for this stuff.
The Cheesy Poofs are signed up and ready to go!
Every team at the Newark, NJ (NJIT) kickoff got an FRSee flyer in their KoP. I emphasized this with the two rookie teams as a way to connect with many veterans right form the start.
Question - would it be “legitimate” (for lack of a better term) to register for FRSee but not use it during build hours? We do not have an internet connection at our build site (the school has blocked Skype on student computer accounts, and the wifi is limited to school-owned computers connected to the school network), but would be interested from helping with questions from home.
I regularly leave our account running when I’m at home, and even assisted a team earlier today. So to answer your question, I guess it could be “legitimate” to leave it running anytime.
Absolutely. FRSee is about team members helping team members. While it was envisioned that this would usually take place from your build site, there is certainly no rule about it. If you can seek or provide help at some other time and place, by all means do so.
Just a reminder that this great resource is here! Don’t forget to run the Skype program during your meetings. You never know when you or another team may need help.
Just poking this thread again for those that may not have seen it before build season began. Now is a great time to get signed in to the FRSee collaboration group, as you get into the nitty-gritty of build difficulties, or have great things to show off.
We have several dozen teams in the FRSee community and more joining all the time. FRSee teams, please make it a habit to sign in during all your team work hours, or even from home. We have lots of members, but not as many signed in during evening hours as we would like. Other teams cannot reach you unless you are signed in!
See you online.