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Re: "Whitepaper" Etiquette, 2015 Edition

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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
I agree with most of your points however one thing I'm not sure if you have thought about is the ability to archive information.

I'm very confident in the ability of CD to be around 10 years from now. I'm much less confident in every team's website. Uploading something to CD means that it's available for everyone in the place that people look first. There is probably a better way to achieve this same thing but it's an important part of uploading something to CD.
If you go looking around in threads I remember when I started ('04-'05) almost all of the non-CD links are broken and lots of good technical information has been lost. Team websites are especially vulnerable, but even a significant number of the external hosts no longer exist or are dead links...

CD is a sort of Library of Congress for FIRST.
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