Global Formula Racing's 'Relentless' Documentary Premieres Online

[Samantha Egge]

Global Formula Racing's 'Relentless' documentary will finally be premiering online. Streaming live on Saturday April 21st 900 PST/1800 CET, this event will be available to everyone around the world. The documentary features GFR's 2011 season as they prepare for competition and travel to Europe.

The current schedule of events:
830 PST/1730 CEST - Livestream opens to the public
900 PST/1800 CEST - Introduction to the Documentary
915/1815 - 'Relentless' Shows
955/1855 - Question and Answer with GFR members
1015/1915 - Event Ends

Any further questions feel free to ask me. The streaming site will be announced later (hopefully this week) in this thread and through facebook.

We tried to pick a time that would work internationally, and this was our best solution. GFR hopes this time works for everyone.
After the public release 'Relentless' will be available online for anyone to watch.

OSU's Relentless Page (http://bit.ly/OSURelentless)
Official Facebook Event (http://www.facebook.com/events/213687575403157/)
Web Article about 'Relentless' Online Premiere (http://bit.ly/RelentlessArticle)
'Relentless' Trailer (http://bit.ly/HGLhCm)

[Samantha Egge]

Global Formula Racing's 'Relentless' documentary will finally be premiering online. Streaming live on Saturday April 21st 900 PST/1800 CET, this event will be available to everyone around the world. The documentary features GFR's 2011 season as they prepare for competition and travel to Europe.

The current schedule of events:
830 PST/1730 CEST - Livestream opens to the public
900 PST/1800 CEST - Introduction to the Documentary
915/1815 - 'Relentless' Shows
955/1855 - Question and Answer with GFR members
1015/1915 - Event Ends

Any further questions feel free to ask me. The streaming site will be announced later (hopefully this week) in this thread and through facebook.

We tried to pick a time that would work internationally, and this was our best solution. GFR hopes this time works for everyone.
After the public release 'Relentless' will be available online for anyone to watch.

OSU's Relentless Page (http://bit.ly/OSURelentless)
Official Facebook Event (http://www.facebook.com/events/213687575403157/)
Web Article about 'Relentless' Online Premiere (http://bit.ly/RelentlessArticle)
'Relentless' Trailer (http://bit.ly/HGLhCm)

[Fantomas]

Hi Samantha,
it is CEST in Europe currently, so it would be nice, if you could adjust the times accordingly for convenience.

Fantomas

[Samantha Egge]

Fantomas,

Thanks for that. I forgot about the change in name between CET to CEST.
It's still 9 hours of difference, so the time is the same.

Regards,
Samantha

[Canuck Racing]

Nothing like inspiring the next generation of young engineers how to export our manufacturing and design work overseas!

[Anthony Casson]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Canuck Racing:
Nothing like inspiring the next generation of young engineers how to export our manufacturing and design work overseas! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Canuck, I sincerely hope you're teasing. As someone who seems to have a wealth of knowledge in engineering, you probably understand the value of collaboration. You're welcome to your beliefs, but GFR members on both sides are involved with the design and manufacturing process the entire time -- they rely on stern checks and balances. They manufacture most of what they design, and they design a lot.

It's really not worth your time to take unwarranted jabs.

Anthony
Oregon State University Alum
OSU/GFR 2007-11

[bob.paasch]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Canuck Racing:
Nothing like inspiring the next generation of young engineers how to export our manufacturing and design work overseas! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Canuck, you mean like Ford, GM and Chrysler exporting their manufacturing across the river to low cost Canada? http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Are you referring to Germans exporting some of their manufacturing and design work to the US? Or the US exporting some design and manufacturing to Germany?

GFR is not about exporting anything, it's about collaboration, and teaching the next generation of young engineers how operate in a global economy where design and manufacturing is distributed across time zones.

Please read "The World is Flat" or "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman, or read some of his columns in the New York Times. Distributed design and worldwide supply chains are facts. The internet genie that enables them is not going to go back in the bottle. Multinational companies like Ford, Daimler, GM, Honda, John Deere, etc. distribute their design work around the world. Working with engineers from other countries and cultures is a fact of modern product design. My brother-in-law designs laser printers for Hewlett-Packard, he's in contact with design and manufacturing engineers at Canon in Japan every day. Our local automotive "industry" is Daimler Truck, their manufacturing supply chain stretches from Oregon to Mexico to Brazil to Japan to Australia to Germany, and more.

Thriving and leading in a global design and manufacturing environment requires skills not normally taught in engineering programs. That's is the motivation for the educational experiment that is Global Formula Racing.

[acedeuce802]

I'm pretty sure their situation demonstrates the real world. Considering I had a global meeting with Germany and Brazil today at my co-op..

[AxelRipper]

Lets see here, looking around the area I'm sitting right now at my co-op, there are 3 Italians about 100 ft to my left, a couple more down the hall to the right, pretty sure there's some Germans around somewhere, and last I knew they had some Chinese upstairs somewhere. I will also be in a meeting next week with some people from Germany.

[Claude Rouelle]

Canuck,

I am absolutely convinced that there would be less war in this world if young people would travel more often. It is not necessarily about accepting other people ideas or values but about accepting that other people have different ideas and values.

In that spirit,collaboration between universities (even better between universities of different countries) is a chance I wish every student could have.

In a global economy we always have more to gain by sharing knowledge, perspectives, experiences skills and goods than by building barricades around our little houses and cultures. That is one of the things FSAE / FS is about

What GFR does is an example. I would therefore refute any argument against such collaboration.

Opening our borders is opening our mind.


Claude

[Samantha Egge]

We appreciate everyone's support.

The online premiere will be hosted on 'formulastudent.tv'. We hope that everyone can make it tomorrow.