[Alan Anderson]

It occurred to me this morning that FIRST already seems to be trying to give us more advance warning of things, in the form of Bill's Blog. For example, there was the mention that crate requirements might change. But the informal tone of the blog and its occasional misstatements of fact tend to keep me from taking it too seriously, and the interesting but irrelevant tidbits about such things as the GDC's dietary habits makes it hard to sift out the important information.

The day-to-day details don't have to be published in order for teams and mentor groups to be more effective. It's the medium- to long-term plans that are needed in order to give us direction. We have the tools, and we'd like to think we have the skills, but we don't have the blueprints, or even the design sketches.