TL;DR: Consider donating to The Blue Alliance, we’re an official non-profit, and community donations help cover our operating costs.
The Blue Alliance’s website (thebluealliance.com) helps teams scout for competitions, our apps send real-time notifications at competitions, and our Gameday webcast viewer lets you follow along when you’re not there in person. Our APIs make FRC data access easy, letting people build scouting dashboards in Google Sheets, or do complex data analysis with programming languages like R and Python.
TBA relies on the volunteer effort of people who contribute code, moderate data submissions, and upload match videos and robot photos. Thank you to everyone who has been involved since TBA was started in 2006.
The Blue Alliance is a non-profit organization. This enables us to get discounts on some services that keep the site running, and means that donations to The Blue Alliance are tax deductible. The community’s support helps sustain the sites’ approximately $4,300 per year operating costs (almost entirely Google Cloud Platform). AndyMark generously sponsors us, but not enough to cover all costs. If we get to a place where we are receiving much more in donations than our operating costs, we’ll explore hiring a summer intern.
The best donations are monthly recurring contributions, which help us budget for the future. Our EIN is 88-3600243.
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Thanks,
Greg Marra, Eugene Fang, Phil Lopreiato, and Zach Orr