I look at the OpenAPS platform and the process of building an OpensAPS like taking an extension class at the local college...Building an Artificial Pancreas 101. You go in not knowing how to do it, you apply yourself and you progress through the system. In the end if you complete all the tasks, you will finish the course with an Open APS system. Even if it takes several long months, that time will come and go anyway, why not have an additional tool in your T1D toolbox in order to take back more of what was taken from you at diagnosis.
-Weston