Welcome to the openFIRST Portal Development Website!
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.
USFIRST Robotics
USFIRST is the largest North American robotics competition that has
over 800 teams and many competitions yearly. Read
more.
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(Other databases are also supported)
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<div id="title"><h1><img alt="" src="http://www.openfirst.org/image/kthememgr.png">Which File Type Do I Choose?</h1></div>
<p>In general, the openFIRST project consistently releases packages in three different formats, Tar-Gzip, Tar-Bzip, and Zip.</p> <p>The Tar-Gzip and Tar-Bzip versions contain unix-style end-of-line characters, which means that Microsoft ® Windows ® users who download these versions may see odd-looking black boxes throughout the code which make it difficult to interpret. The Zip file version contains Windows-style end-of-line characters, which eliminates the odd-looking black-boxes for Windows ® users.</p> <p>The functionality of all software is equivalent in each of the three package types. Windows ® users should download the Zip version and may uncompress it using archive programs such as: Winzip or PK Zip. Users of other Operating Systems should download the file best-suited to their archive software of choice. In general, Bzip files provide the smallest download and the best compression, however some archive software may not support Bzip compression.</p>
<p><b>In summary:</b> <br>Microsoft ® Windows ® users should download the Zip version. <br>Other Operating System users should download the Tar-Bzip version, or the Tar-Gzip version.
