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Originally Posted by jurassicjupiter
Very un-gracious in my mind.
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No.
Being un-gracious (whatever that means) would mean not providing an API for teams and individuals to make awesome apps/sites like ATC,
FRC Division Notifier, and
FRC Spyder.
Being un-gracious would mean not being open-source, allowing students to help fix and improve TBA, while also showing them how a well-run OSS project is organized, a valuable skill, IMHO. There are some very smart people working on TBA (excluding myself
), so one could almost liken it to having programming mentors remotely. How often do you get the opportunity to work with an engineer from Facebook?!
Alumni of the program give back in many ways. It's not to "take candy from kids", it's to provide something back to the program after we've gotten so much from it. If a student or team wants to make something, go right ahead. More power to them! And who knows? Maybe it'll be the next big thing.