FIRSTTube! - Are you tube enough?

[Pavan Dave]

How it all happened
The FIRST Tube project started the week after the build season ended after I posted a thread on CD asking if anybody would actually use it if it was there. Days later, the project set off with Forest Immel, Alex Kowald, and me, Pavan Dave, with a goal of making it possible for FIRST participants to share videos on a web site that is not blocked by school districts with a "ONLY ROBOTICS VIDEO" policy so schools have no reason to block it. The videos must be somehow related to Robotics, and you will see categories on the site where you can put your videos ranging from "Team Bonding" to "Regional Competitions".


Why Use it?
Because many students are complaining on CD because most of the time when they are on computers they are blocked from You Tube, and many teams rather than hosting on their own sites, refer to You Tube, so this way with FIRST Tube you can upload videos and be reassured that 99% of schools have not blocked it because they have never even heard of it.


Okay, okay, now where do I go to see this FIRST Tube?

You can go to FIRST Tube by typing in http://www.firsttube.org/ into your browser.

For any questions please feel free to contact me via Personal Message through CD or by using the Email feature through CD.

Please keep in mind FIRST Tube is in it's beta stage at moment and there is a bug that only enables us to view the first minute of your video so I apologize for that in advanced but we are working on it and you are not able to seek through videos. If you find any other bugs please feel free to let us know so that we can take the appropriate action.