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Perspectives on a Lego Community Website
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:17:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Simon Bennett wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Eric Sophie wrote:
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We should form a commitee and make a web site.
A guiding place for Newbies, AND as a guide or to put a “Face” to the
resources, people, orgs, and knowlegde about building with Lego, etc...
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Is the web-presence of any other hobby better organised?
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I’d like to chime in here.
The issue of community websites really concerns issues of the community as a
whole. Is it democratic? Is it a despotism? A technocracy?
In my experience, the online lego community IS the example for other online
communities to follow (at least publicly). Despite agreements and arguments
behind-the-scenes (a property of any community) we DO present an exceptionally
unified front as the interactivity among lugnet, peeron, etc. amply
demonstrates.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t do better.
I have been architecting/building a website for the lego community for over a
year now based on principles of bottom-up organization. We, the community would
run the site, a site FOR us BY us. At BrickFest of 2002 I even spoke with TLC
about the scope of such a massive and diverse project. One goal of the site
would be to promote interoperability and interactivity among all lego fan sites.
(This is the same concept as the .space Moonbase standards created by the
.spacers at the 2002 Brickfest)
Why do it this way? Because no one maintains a Lego train site like Lego Train
enthusiasts, and no one gets into a .space site like .space enthusiasts. In the
quest for a generally useful site (like lugnet) the burdens falling on the
“managers” can be overwhelming and they don’t have the level of interest
required to produce really exciting content. This is one of the reasons that
specialized sites like FBTB or BZPower can become so interesting. As a
community we don’t need ONE central site that does everything, we just need to
create interoperability to facilitate all our sites working together to enhance
our online experience.
I would love for us to start a thread here on lugnet to discuss how we could all
work together to implement a community-run effort and a web-site organized
around that effort. Articles, Calendars, Newbie info, shared databases, etc.
can all go into the mix.
-paul
(custom sig image courtesy of CGidd)
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| (...) It seems to me that if areas of the website could be editted/updated by individuals who don't necessarily have permissions to the overall format, the website would have a lot more of a community feel, and the burden on any one particular (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| | Re: "get an orientation on the LEGO community"
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| (...) I've got a lot to say on this but I'll start with just one point no-one's raised yet... Is the web-presence of any other hobby better organised? There's no point in reinventing the wheel, let's look at how others have addressed this. The only (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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