[FRC Designs] Transition Period

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Originally Posted by Hallry

I'm not involved with any of these, but as a consumer, a combination of FRC Designs and The Blue Alliance sounds awesome. Being able to look up a team's record, awards, match scores, (hopefully) match videos, and being able to see and read up on their robot designs all in one place would be pretty sweet.

This is a really interesting proposition, and it actually fits in pretty well with some existing plans. We'd like to iterate on a lot of the media options for TBA team pages (more social integration, for example, so teams can shape how their TBA pages look), and this is might fit in pretty nicely. All we'd really need to add is whitepaper/attachment support, and there are already existing hosting options we can leverage (maybe use CD whitepapers as a backing for all of it). Plus, we already have a way to display all the robot images.

I'm not sure if I have enough free time to write all of this, but anybody who wants to help, get in touch - that's the magic of TBA being open source.

In the short term, Matt, are you comfortable with exporting some data and positing it on GitHub? If it's accessible, we can make a hackathon project out of incorporating some of the data. I know I can write a simple script to import robot images pretty easily. The rest might take some backend changes on the TBA side. I can check with Eugene and Greg and see if this is something they'd like to make it a priority.