Generally, any IP generated would be yours to keep. But ASP, Ruby, ColdFusion etc is all on the table, right now we just want a specification. Personally I'd be betting on PHP with a SQL backend. Take your pick, but obviously if it needs a $10,000 server to run it won't happen. But the 2012 FSAE-A event starts in the first week of December, we'd like to deploy a system to this event. I'm a projects engineer by trade, I'm realistic about deadlines. But there are a number of reasons why someone might you want a challenge, promoting your business, generating some work for your portfolio, networking with the industry, etc.Īdditionally there is a future commercial opportunity that we can discuss. Well, admittedly, this opportunity is not for everyone.

At this point we have exactly $0 allocated in budget for this project. I donate all my time to the event as do countless others. In an ideal world we would, but this is a not for profit event, and generally run at a loss from the SAE-A. Why don't you pay for a development company to do this? Now I am an event volunteer, in co-ordination, judging and results. I am a former competitor, for 5 years, at various different universities in Australia and overseas. This is where you come in we have no web developers in the volunteer pool (we are all mostly mechanical engineers) and we need the help off someone to help flesh out a specification for we want and best case scenario help write it. Improve The Overall Quality of the Event.Provide Live Updates Worldwide During the Event.Reduce/Remove Human Error from Results Collation.

The current discussions from the organisation team revolve around the development of a new Web App to manage the scoring and collating of results (from the 30 or so scoring judges and marshals distributed over the site over the 4 days). Collating the results to present the winner is proving more and more difficult each year with often hand counting errors resulting in post-event revisions and worse still trophies having to be re-presented in extreme cases. The competition is growing in Australia as is the number of events and the complexity of scoring them. The competition itself (FSAE-A) runs for four days over which each team must compete numerous tests on the vehicle, the results from these events (times, scores, penalties etc) generate huge amounts of data which is recorded by hand, on paper and then collated by one person into an excel spreadsheet which generates a number of results and ultimately the final scoring and the winner of the event. However the event itself Formula SAE Australasia (FSAE-A) is almost run entirely by volunteers from automotive manufacturers, alumni and other people that volunteer their time to the running of the event.įor more general information about the competition see here: In Australia it is coordinated by the Society of Automotive Engineers Australia. If you went to university in Australia, it's more likely than not that your university had a team competing here or overseas in fact Australia continues to produce some of the most competitive teams worldwide.įormula SAE events are extremely hard to organise and run. There are 13 international races, with one (soon to be two) held in Australia and something like 700 teams worldwide. Please read the project brief below and contact me if you are interested.įormula SAE is an international (motorsport) racing series for university students, where essentially the challenge is to design, build and race a small style race-car.

I am looking for a talented individual to help with a project that we are trying to get off the ground.

Racecar timing app