First Tube??

[Pavan Dave]

I am wondering about how much bandwidth I would need if I wanted to make a FIRST-Tube or something since YouTube is banned at most schools. I am also wondering how much space I would need for about 10,000 1-5 minute videos with more FIRST friendly browsing like AVI, ADI, Safety Video, Teasers, Videos, Team Events etc.

The biggest thing would be that in the agreement when you register you must acknowledge that you understand that every video uploaded MUST be related to FIRST, FIRST Robotics, or the team of the person uploading the file. This is the "KEY" to getting it allowed at schools.

What do you guys think about the idea?



EDIT 1: Due to the question of funding I will add this little segment of a later post.

Originally Posted by nuggetsyl

I am totaly with you on this. I was talking to some friends the other day about how bad you tube is for finding videos. If i had the money i would build a first tube site in a min.

The way I am seeing it now is that we can propose this to Google, if they are still our sponsor seeing as they have been so supportive of FIRST and they own YouTube. Of course this would not be hard and fast and would take some time, but it would overall be great for the FIRST community.

Even if we can not get Google to sponsor it I bet that we could raise money to start it because $1-2 from every person interested and that can spare it would be enough to get it going at least for the rest of this current season and it is a great opportunity to get corporate sponsors who want to advertise to robotic consumers the next season kind of like CD has the sponsors at the top and how many people have Google ADs on their websites.



Pavan.