NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard

I think a few people in this thread need to be a bit nicer to the NI people, or they might stop communicating on chief (which is awesome that they do).

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with them in anyway, but let's not totally ruin the fact that they are willing to come on chief and interact directly with the community.

I agree whatever the basic concerns are here about what this is versus what it could have been.

There is no longer a choice in the matter.
Choices were offered and choices were made.

On the one hand I do not think it is realistic to expect NI to comply with some of the changes.

On the other hand I would be disappointed in NI if merely stating some concerns was enough to make them go silent in this forum.
However I do not think that is NI's style.
I admit to be often quite rough on them and they are still here.

Whoever won that RFQ needed to be prepared to face the public.
I even put that in the proposal.
What the community thinks does matter.
If what the community thinks does not matter then there's something wrong.
There are times when I think what the community thinks is ignored.
Let us all strive to deal with that responsibly.

I have been avoiding this topic specifically because the proposal I worked on not being accepted makes this sound like sour grapes.
The only reason I am posting in this topic now is because someone brought up the dual radios.
Give credit where it is due...be that to NI...or whoever else goes the mile to do the hard things.
Further know that there are other things that no other control system offered that I helped propose.
So there are ideas coming into focus now that were just in grasp during the process.

If someone wants to see the proposal from U.S. Cybernetical I will post it (I have approval from all parties).
If not oh well. I did what I felt was right with what I had. That is all anyone can do.

I even promised I would help Sasquatch out if their Kickstarter did not fund.
I've ordered the unit from them and patiently await it's arrival.
This was the arrangement they preferred I am happy to accommodate.

In the end what I got out of that proposal will end up being far more valuable than what it appears.