TBA 2013

Brainstorming what's important with TBA 2013

Action Items

In next two weeks:

• [@chrismarra] wireframe mobile live events
• [@chrismarra] wireframe mobile live team dashboard
• [@chrismarra] wireframe team / event page headers
• DONE [@gregmarra] FRC reachout
  • Didn't hear back after emailing marketing email :(
• DONE [@gregmarra] Hashtag initiative
  • DONE ChiefDelphi post soliciting feedback
  • DONE TBA page explaining hashtags
  • DONE Hashtags on pages
• [@gregmarra] YouTube upload explanation page

Also happening:

• [@fangeugene] Working on Twitter scraping
  • 2012-08-18 note: Twitter is changing how their API is accessed and limited. We'll see if/how this affects us when they release more information in a few weeks)
  • 2012-09-05 note: The new API only allows 15 requests per 15 minute window for any of the calls we would need to get tweets from @FRCFMS. GAE doesn't support persistent connections which is required for use with Twitter's streaming API. We need a way to get Tweets more frequently than once per minute. New API ref: ttps://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview

Brainstorm

Mobile

• Mobile growth up 130% y/y. Expect more growth.
• Mobile peaks during events
• How might we build amazing smartphone experiences at competitions?
  • My Team's dashboard
    • next match time, who's playing
    • results so far
    • hashtag search for #frc177
  • Peak in on other events, get a summary
  • Scouting at this competition, who's doing well, who do we pick?
  • Hashtag search - Instagram, Twitter, CD for events, encourage media posting -there_
• Rich bookmarks to home screens on Android, iOS

Live Desktop

• Ustream(preferred)/JustinTV(preferred)/NASA links for every event
• Multi-event viewing experience with live features (ex: score updates, notification for followed teams, etc)
  • Can build off of MadStream code, integrate into TBA.
• Social media hashtag search for every event
• Chatrooms? Usually peak at like 100 people, not huge opportunity

Swag

• tshirts, stickers for laptops, stickers for robots
• how would we get swag in every FRC kit?
• swag store?

Hashtags

• Why put "177" on bumper when could put "#frc177"?
• How do we make hashtags better?
• Can we work w FIRST marketing to get this announced @ kickoff?
• How can we get teams to put hashtags on their real shirts?
• Might we sell hashtag shirts just "#frc177"?

YouTube

• On-site YT video submitter
• Can have add a video for this on Match pages w prepopulated search on YT
• Better YT admin tools, including building a reviewer type login thing
• Encourage YT vid upload on mobile web pages
• Hashtags compound here
• "These are the matches we most need YT vids for" based on PVs, solicit community