"difficult to harness the drone community for free/open-source work"
Yes it's "difficult to harness the drone community for free/open-source work" - because the drone community is sick to death of idiots giving them a bad name.
"Will you help me crash and steal drones" is not going to get you a good response, not even if you are doing it for free/open-source.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
