The high schools local to Corvallis and Eugene are competing in FIRST Robotics. The regional competition is in Portland next weekend and I assume all local teams are going to that competition. The dates are Feb 28, 29 and March 1. It is at the Memorial Coliseum (next to the Rose Garden).
This event is open to the public. It is pretty cool and I encourage you all to attend. The robots are designed and programmed by the students. (mostly) Adult mentors, such as myself, contribute. What does this have to do with Linux and Open Source? Today, not a whole lot. I open source my team's software. (CVHS team 955) http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/first/simulator/ In general the FIRST organization is not friendly to open source. They require us to use specific products, locking us in to single vendors with proprietary products of low quality. I am trying to break that hold in a small way. My simulator is specifically designed to run on Linux, altho it can be run anywhere. A bigger step would be to be able to compile, download and debug from a Linux host. We know how to compile. But without the download step, that is not very useful. I plan to attempt to reverse engineer the protocol of the loader product soon. And also the protocols of a couple of debug tools. Anyway, the point of this posting is to invite you all to attend if you can. And if you can afford time, you can volunteer as mentors for a team near you. Maybe we can all inject a little more open source into the world. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. --- Dean Martin _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
