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What is openFIRST?

The openFIRST Portal System is an integrated set of modules which may be used together to create or enhance a web site. It is directed towards teams participating in the FIRST robotics competition. The openFIRST Portal System is a completely student-developed project that has had contributions from a wide variety of teams from Brasil, Canada and the United States.

Developers?

openFIRST is developed by a number of students from the FIRST Robotics competition teams #1006, #1049, #781, #1075, #1501, #1227, and #1257. You may read more about the developers here. To learn how to contribute to the project, and for a technical reference about writing modifications / patches / enhancements for the openFIRST system, read the openFIRST Contributor's HOWTO. New contributors are always welcome.

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USFIRST Robotics

USFIRST is the largest North American robotics competition that has over 800 teams and many competitions yearly. Read more.

openFIRST was developed with:

XHTML 1.0

Apache

Microsoft IIS

Sambar

PHP

MySQL

(Other databases are also supported)

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Opening up Requirements
Posted: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:36:13 GMT by astronouth7303	Previously, we've limited developers to be current high school students, to meet FIRST's requirements for the Website Award. We have realized that this is ridiculous. (0 comments)
Subversion Migration
Posted: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:26:39 GMT by astronouth7303	We have begun migrating to Subversion. We will lock CVS modules one by one and move them to the SVN repository, starting with http://www. There will also be some restructuring of the repository. You will be able to checkout the trunk or any tag and get the correct file layout. Not all of the modules will be moved, specifically the old, deprecated ones. (1 comments)
openFIRST 2.0a1released
Posted: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:35:05 GMT by astronouth7303	openFIRST v2.0 ("long haul") has now entered alpha! The modules released include: - openfirst.base (the openFIRST core) - openfirst.awards (award display & management) (1 comments)
Updates on development
Posted: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:22:20 GMT by astronouth7303	I thought I would update all you webmasters about the features I know you're salivating over. ;) Currently what is in CVS has a working module system (although not fully tested) that I was able to install from scratch. Many of the auxilary APIs are implemented: (0 comments)
Announcement: Pending Deadline for End of Support
Posted: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:38:03 GMT by xtimg	The openFIRST project will be ending support for old versions of the openFIRST Portal System as of November 1st, 2005. (0 comments)

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