[FRC Blog] Event Results and API Data

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

I also agree with the idea of a greater open-source initiative on the part of FIRST.

Greater than the FRC event API? That's pretty darned open. Anyone can take the data from the events and massage it and display it anyway they want. I myself have plans to work with it but no time yet.

Open source for the FMS is pretty silly. You cannot test and validate it without all of the specialized hardware required for a field and you cannot do any coding on the part that changes yearly (the scoring) without knowing the details of a game that's kept secret.