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| author | Haoran S. Diao (刁浩然) <0@hairydiode.xyz> | 2023-06-30 09:31:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Haoran S. Diao (刁浩然) <0@hairydiode.xyz> | 2023-06-30 09:31:51 -0700 |
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diff --git a/orion.html b/orion.html deleted file mode 100644 index 33eb220..0000000 --- a/orion.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<head> -<title>Leaving ORION</title> -<meta charset="utf-8"/> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://hairydiode.xyz/style.css"/> -<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="https://hairydiode.xyz/img/fav/logo.png"/> -</head> -<body> -<div class="content"> -<pre> -<!-- -123456789-223456789-323456789-423456789-523456789-623456789-723456789-8234567890 -一二三四 --->-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -<a href="https://hairydiode.xyz">>HairyDiode</a> - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -<!-- -123456789-223456789-323456789-423456789-523456789-623456789-723456789-8234567890 -一二三四-->Leaving ORION 2-9-2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -I'm stepping down as vice president of ORION, below is my reasoning for leaving. - -- - - - - - - - - - - - ---=[Why I'm Leaving ORION]=--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - --Preface: - - To start off, I'd like to say that I don't think there's anything -objectively wrong with ORION, and that I'm leaving mostly because it wasn't what -I expected it to be. I wish the remaining members of ORION good luck on their -mission. - --The Mandelbots: - - ORION was founded initally as a way for us to get funding for our -robotics team, The Mandelbots. This was the reason I joined ORION, but after the -last competition season I feel that that's no longer the case. ORION has moved -on to different goals, and I feel has distracted us from robotics. - Despite efforts by all of us to avoid them, we ran into the same issues -of bad time management that we did last year. In order to fund our team we had -to apply for grants through ORION, most of which only came in close to our -qualifier date. As a result the parts that we needed to build our robot came in -3 days before the qualifier, giving us only 3 days to build. However, the -late-coming grants don't explain why for the months before that, little or no -progress was made on the aspects of robotics that weren't so dependent on new -parts. For example, coding started only about a week before the competition, and -very few prototypes were built with the parts that we had from last season. - During those months without parts, we spent most of our meetings working -on other things. I admit, I too am guilty of this, but the one thing that has -taken up the most time in our robotics meetings was ORION. The thing with ORION -work is that the tasks it involves like applying for grants and planning for -future projects are all official business related to robotics, but nonetheless -are not robotics. So in my opinion they merely presented us with a more -acceptable way to procrastinate on the robot. We even had members of the team -who spent almost every meeting working on ORION projects that had nothing to do -with robotics. - There's nothing inherently wrong with focusing on ORION with our time, -but it's not what I signed up for and it's not why I agreed to host our robotics -meetings. - --The Future of ORION: - - "ORION is a stem nonprofit ..." is how we would always introduce -ourselves while doing outreach, but it doesn't say much about our goals and how -we aim to acheive them. What ORION currently has in the works is a python class -and a potential robotics camp in Ghana. Personally, I disagree with these -projects, but this is in no way some sort of indictment. - For one, a single member of ORION has been the only one working on the -python class, and has requested that they be the only one to teach it. In the -months they have been working on the curriculum they have never even shown it to -other members of ORION, as far as I am aware of. There's nothing objectively bad -about this but I personally feel that given the python class is one of our main -focuses, there should be more collaboration involving all of us. - Ghana on the otherhand, I disagree with on the basis that it's too -misdirected. Why is it that we are running these camps in far off places with a -vaguely humanitarian goal? Shouldn't we focus on our own communities, and don't -they deserve to be taught by people from their own communities? The implication -has always been that because of economic reasons those communities can not set -up camps of their own, but if this is true then there are deeper issues to be -solved. To do things like set up a camp for them is like giving a band-aid to -someone who's just lost an arm. - --Conclusion: - - It is because of all this that i'd like to leave ORION and will no -longer mention my previous association elsewhere. I wish the rest of ORION the -best of luck. This document will be hosted on my personal site, and any current -members of ORION are welcome to have any comments they have be hosted alongside -it if they email them to me at 1339802534.kk@gmail.com. -</pre> -</div> -<br> -<br> -</body> -<!-- -if you're digging in the src you might be interested in how this site works -here: https://hairydiode.xyz/meta2 ---> |