Thank you Fred.

You are most welcome, of course :-)

I though a thread on the fsae forum....college formula car project forum full of guys with lots of time and talent, a lot of them looking for Sr or masters projects, a passion for car design but no money, just the guys I figured we were looking for. 4 hours and 60 views
http://fsae.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=7636 ... #402100613

Hopefully I can sign a few guys up to both projects.

Any chnace of someone checking in on the registration back log?

I'm not sure how many of the people who told me they send emails actually did, but I know at least 1 has for sure and he is ready to get rolling.

Thanks!

Mark

Yep, the back log doesn't just include "your" guys, it includes a guy I met in SD and others too. I'm keen to get them all done (not just one or some) but it will have to wait a little. Take the fact that I know one of them as a sign that it's nothing personal :-) Sorry again.

I'm new here, I'd like to contribute - but have no experience contributing to Open Source projects. According to this: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Fulfill_Your_Ambitions_with_Open_Source - It looks like a good opportunity for me. If there is anything I'm passionate about, it would be a project like this.

I know none of you, and I'm not sure how I may fit into your scheme. I'd like to contribute my firmware skills - but I am indeed a jack of all trades. I am highly meticulous and deliberate with my firmware. I usually end up asking more questions than people like to answer; 'it's always been done that way' does not settle with me in the least. I look forward everyday to getting and giving guidance. It's time to expand my horizions once more ...

I am working on my own design for an ECU and it's nothing like I've seen here, but it's painfully slow when you're a one man band. I'm leaning towards helping a group (you guys) achieve something if there is a place available. I'll be reading up an everything the site has chronicled - but I may have more questions further down the road (most likely about structure and pecking order).

I'm highly dependent on white boards and drawing 'circles and arrows' and high bandwidth face-to-face conversations - Online collaboration appears painful at first glance, is it ?

Welcome!

Online collaboration is great - for starters you have a record of everything said and the paths taken to make a decision.

Hope you don't get swamped too much by all the reading that's ahead of you

Cheers,
Aaron

Awesome, it certainly is satisfying and fulfilling, especially when you see your work paying off for others around you.


Excellent, I look forward to your harsh constructive criticism of my code :-) And perhaps a helping hand with the real time aspects.


LOL, tell me about it, Sean wrote some (very important) code (thanks!!), but the entire rest of the existing code was done by me. I was full time on it though, while working would slow things down by a factor of 5.


Great, there always is, but finding it may not be so easy. I'm kind of the bottle neck right now, but that will change in future once I knock out some essential core stuff.


This is a meritocracy ;-) Those who make the most useful contributions, either through forum posts, or code, or infrastructure, or board design, are at the top of the list :-)


I don't feel that it is, usually. The discussion of ideas is pretty good on the forum and the actual code collaboration works well with the odd short phone call and msn/aim/gmail chat etc. No issues so far. The MS team are James in Birmingham England and Ken near Chicago USA, they do OK :-)

If you want a face-to-face, hit me up on email with your address :-)

Fred.

Same here. I've been picking up the phone and calling the 5554 guys when I have questions.

Welcome along. I should pass you my voice number via PM. The down side is that I'm not typically reacable via this number. But it does e-mail me messages.\

Have you seen google voice, does a nice job trascribing your conversations.