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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Siri,
I read your post and thought that you were indicating that First engineering had already made the attempt to connect to robots by the time Einstein occurred. then I read further and became more and more confused as to what point you were trying to make. So let me make a few statements..
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Ok, that was the exact opposite of what I meant/said, so I'm glad we cleared that up. Thank you and thanks for the statements, too. I know I can't understand what it's like working inside something so complex and critically-viewed, much less when it's a volunteer organization. At the same time, your point about FIRST constantly collecting information from teams even if they don't say so worries me somewhat. As may have been noticed on this thread and others, the lack of two-way communication before and at events is difficult to handle in some cases. Community members are left to feel they have little recourse, whether or not we actually do. Nothing good seems to happen when officials are overwhelmed with advice (or complaints) and members feel overwhelmed with things to advise about. (I've also been on both sides of this in FIRST and neither is easy or pleasant.)
I do argue with others on this thread that we need a more consistent/accepted/responsive/official/useful/publicized/whathaveyou reporting channel for these sorts of things. So I ask as nicely and respectfully as physically possible towards both parties: how do we do this?