Re: [openFIRST-devel] Team 357 Portal System

[David Di B. <dav...@gm...>]

Tim I agree, why have to separate projects going? I think your attempt to
bring them on board is a good idea, I haven't read your draft (heading out
in a hurry in a few seconds), if you haven't I'd suggest adding the
following comments/ideas:

   - openFIRST has been in the FIRST public eye for about 3 years now,
   people know the name. Instead of them starting from scratch they might a=
s
   well join forces and use the name we've established.
   - Team 357 wouldn't be offered "founding team" status but it will be
   considered as a strong contributing force behind the new architecture an=
d
   version.
   - You and I would remain project administrators, but the students will
   be brought on and trained with SourceForge, CVS etc. as I'm sure they
   probably don't have that experience.

Just some ideas.

Dave
On 4/30/06, Timothy Ginn <ti...@op...> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Team 357 ( http://www.team357.org ) is currently in the early stages of
> developing what is essentially identical to the openFIRST Portal System.
> I learned of this through a student Mr. Jonathan Knippschild who
> volunteered to enhance the FIRST Blogs APIs.  Their portal system is
> going to be based off the software they're currently using to run their
> website.  I talked with Mr. Knippschild for a while about the project
> and he thinks it would be a good idea for him to help with openFIRST
> instead; but, also says in the end it's not his call, it's the call of
> Mr. Troy ( http://team357.org/?page=3Dprofile&user=3D64 ).
>
> Mr. Knippschild said he'd talk to Mr. Troy and what I'd like to do to
> help is send a letter to Mr. Troy on behalf of the openFIRST project
> explaining who we are, what we do, the history of the project and
> inviting them to help us out rather than developing their own portal.
> Attached is a draft of the letter that I'd like to send to Team 357.  If
> you could proofread/comment on it before tomorrow that would be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Ginn
> Co-Founder / System Administrator
> openFIRST Project
> ti...@op...
> http://www.openfirst.org/
>
>
>


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