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FRC Blog - Openness and Vulnerability
Originally posted: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...-vulnerability
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I like how he went into a tangent about his phone. Great stuff. Frank is awesome.
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Thanks Frank for being so open and setting a good example for teams. |
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Love the sense of humor. Frank has done an amazing job this season, thank you.
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This community is much more receptive to things that go wrong when we know about plans beforehand, I don't think Frank needs to worry about making a bad call too much. If people complain about something, we just need to remind them that everyone makes mistakes. At least Frank, and now FIRST as a whole, owns up to mistakes and challenges.
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I don't think I like our Acting FRC Director anymore. -proud Apple fanboy
Also, spare batteries are for chumps. |
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When is Frank going to become Permanent FRC Director instead of Acting FRC Director?
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I love this man.
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As an iPhone user, I have been deeply hurt by Frank's words, and spent the past few hours crying. Once I got past the sidebar (I had to go read the Steve Jobs biography again in order to put myself back into the appropriate world view), the rest of the post is totally on the mark.
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As a lover of transparency, I'm dumbfounded. I mean, this is transparency about transparency. Frank really knows how to hit the sweet spot!
Sidenote: I admired Steve Jobs a lot until I read his biography. Now, not as much. |
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This feels like a prelude to a very big and scary blog...
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Frank is awesome. I really don't have much else to say. I agree with everyone else here so far, I can't wait until the word "acting" is dropped from his title.
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Frank has given this community exactly what it has asked for - more Transparency. Unfortunately there will still be plenty that are never happy with anything that isnt perfect, but I think a much much larger majority will stick up for FIRST when they know the reasons decisions were made, or more details on what happened. Even if FIRST doesn't make all the right decisions, I would hope that with this new transparency, people are more willing to forgive mistakes and are much slower to jump down their throats. Communication is a huge step in establishing trust. It means people aren't left guessing the why's or the how's. I'm eager for at least this level of transparency to continue. |
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Frank, we all know you read these, so you have my WORD that if you %#%#%# up in the future, you are forgiven. Completely, unequivocally, and immediately. Just keep doing what you're doing.
Speaking as an adult living in the real world, the best laid plans often go awry. It happens, you just have to roll with it. |
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I think the Blog title should be changed from 'FRC Blog' to ' To be Frank' amirite?
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"I'll be Frank if you'll be Earnest."
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I'd like to just vouch for Frank and his commitment to FRC. Granted, this the only time that I've directly spoken with him but it stood out to me. At one point during the championships this year, FRC Spyder went down and no one from Galileo was able to get score updates. I went searching around and found out that the FIRST website for the Galileo division was also down. After a period of me trying to figure out who to talk to, Dan Green got me over to Frank and I told him what was wrong.
(A bit of side info, but this is right next to the Galileo field while he was running around checking how the matches were going) He said he wasn't aware of any issues but tried to pull up the Galileo website. Sure enough, it was still down and Spyder wasn't working. Without missing a beat, he told me, "I'll get this fixed immediately" (or something close to those lines) and began making calls. After about 15 minutes (more or less as lack of sleep made times a bit fuzzy), the Galileo site came back online and Spyder picked up where it left off. Although some people could say that this is just a normal occurrence, I'm still very appreciative of how he dropped what he was doing to help fix a "non-critical" issue. So, two thumbs up there! The other thing I've noticed is just what he outlined in this post. The openness by FIRST is apparent compared to previous years. It's something I've wished there was more of and this championship it was a common theme. FTAs had no problem explaining various bits that go into the scoring process and how scores are eventually determined, put online, and corrected. I think that keeping things as open-source (on the software side of things) and publicly available, will ultimately help FIRST and avoid issues down the road. Kudos Frank for pushing this. |
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