Just writing that I appreciate the post. Definitely agree with the ick feeling toward videoing interactions, and with how an overwhelming situation can feel bad for a while afterward even if your actions did help.
Back in college I was such an easy panhandling target that eventually my parents helped me assemble canned meals and toiletry kits to keep in my trunk. Rarely did anyone accept one, maybe one out of ten people once I stopped handing out money. Did that mean the other 9 people were faking their situation? I know a couple of them were, which is what prompted me to change to the kits, but the others likely needed more help than a broke college student could give.
My current understanding: Collabora devs say their removal was capricious. And now TDF is saying it was preventative /just in case/ continued membership led to selfish decision making.
It's all so vague currently. I hate seeing these kind of scuffles that can hamstring good projects.
LEGO is releasing a new robot kit, Computer Science and AI, later this year. It isn't able to run autonomously so it is essentially incompatible with the way FIRST LEGO League has worked for the last 28 years.
Earlier this year, FIRST and LEGO announced that FIRST LEGO League would split into two editions--Founders Edition and Future Edition. Both editions would run concurrently for the next two seasons. Founders Edition would continue the current autonomous format and teams could use any of the previous robot kits (RCX, NXT, EV3, SPIKE). Future Edition would be a new remote control format using the new robot kit. After the two transition seasons, Founders Edition would be discontinued and Future Edition would become the one and only format and ending the use of all previous robot kits.
Now that LEGO has announced they are ending their relationship with FIRST after next season, a lot of that is up in the air. Next season will proceed as previously announced, with both Founders Edition and Future Edition. After that, both FIRST and LEGO are each continuing on with their own, separate K-8 robotics programs.
Future Edition requires teams have two of the $530 Computer Science and AI kits. One for their robot and one for the interactive mission models. That's a huge investment for a lot of teams.
LEGO has said they will support SPIKE through the next three seasons but they have not said how that will work or if older robot kits (RCX, NTX, EV3) will also be supported.
FIRST has not announced anything about how their program will work after next season.
The robot kit can be kept and used again each season. Only the challenge kit (mat and mission models) change each season. The current robot kit is $540 vs just $95 for the challenge kit.
A few months ago he popped up in my Instagram feed. It looks like Trevor has been seeing a lot of success on that platform rebranding himself as a jilted genius who's on the comeback. Seeing his posts about how he'd been wronged by the system and comment sections full of people who are taking it at face value really highlights the shortcomings of social media to me.
Back in college I was such an easy panhandling target that eventually my parents helped me assemble canned meals and toiletry kits to keep in my trunk. Rarely did anyone accept one, maybe one out of ten people once I stopped handing out money. Did that mean the other 9 people were faking their situation? I know a couple of them were, which is what prompted me to change to the kits, but the others likely needed more help than a broke college student could give.