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Unread 18-03-2010, 11:08
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Re: The Blue Alliance, What Happened?

Hi! I'm one of the folks who runs The Blue Alliance.

corpralchee is correct - All of us running The Blue Alliance are college students, and it is just something we do on the side. It's a labor of love, but it always comes second to our classes, job searches, and grad school applications. We do our best, particularly during competition season when fast turnaround is important, but we're not always as expedient as we'd like to be.

With regards to photos, we used to be able to get them from FIRST directly, but last year they asked us to discontinue this practice. We now rely 100% on volunteer submitted photos. If someone wants to make the TBA photo archive rock, please assemble a directory of photos named ###.jpg, and send it to me.

With regards to videos, we rely on community submitted videos. Converting the videos into a file format suitable for streaming on the site is sometimes very easy and sometimes takes some tricks. This year, it seems like less people are archiving the regionals, which means we have no video to post. If you have video of an event, please contact me.

I hope this helps make The Blue Alliance's process a little bit more transparent. The fact of the matter is that it is a lot of work, and we'd appreciate as much help from the community as we can get. If anyone has ideas for how we can better help the FIRST community, please post them or send them my way. We will look at any advice, particularly ideas that make it easier for us to help you.

Thanks,
Greg
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