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WorldLUG into public domain
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Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:59:49 GMT
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howD all,
a couple of things have precipitated this post:
1) my domain name of WorldLUG is expiring soon
2) due to my being in graduate school I will have no time to implement WorldLUG
3) I believe in cooperation over competition and open-access over proprietary
development
So, I’m putting WorldLUG into the public domain for anyone who wants to develop
it. I’d love to stay involved as a creative thinker if possible. What follows
here is our original scope document. The point of WorldLUG was not to implement
these features ourselves, but rather to establish some community protocols (XML,
SOAP, etc) by which all of our favorite sites (Lugnet, Bricklink, Brickshelf,
Peeron, etc.) could be interactive with each other, each adding their own
features to the community whole. WorldLUG would be the portal to unite the
community cooperatively. WorldLUG evolved out of some early talks with TLC at
BrickFest 2002, and we hoped to bring the community into the development once we
had the architecture up and running. I built most of these features on the
WorldLUG dev site, but had to abandon the launch once I got into grad school. I
could facilitate a launch if we could put together a team of developers. I’m
willing to give away all existing code or put it on sourceforge if anyone wants
to pick up the ball. Post or Email me if you are interested.
Home
News - announcements from WorldLUG, possibly others, assigned by Topic
Polls - data gathering for WorldLUG, TLC, LUGs, etc
Articles - neat stuff
to read, assigned by Topic
Community Feedback - obvious
Help -
context-sensitive Help from all over the site
Community
Newbie Help
- Getting into the lego community (for newbies)
Members - individual Member
pages
Calendar - somewhat open-access Calendar: Events, Contests, Auctions
(time-related items)
LUGs - LUG pages, LUGlobe, etc
Channels - Theme-based
pages handled by Content Rep’s (Partners)
Newsgroups - links to lugnet
newsgroups and/or other online forums like FBTB
MyWorldLUG
MyNews -
News that fits my criteria for tracking (topic, recent, etc)
MyArticles -
Articles that fit my criteria for tracking (topic, recent, etc)
MyFavorites -
links to wherever
MyLUGs - LUGs i’m tracking
MyProfile - various Member stuff (user, pass, etc)
MyPreferences - user settings (login settings, etc)
MyMessages - messages sent to me
MyCalendar - same as Community::Calendar, but customizable
MyStore - where I sell things, link to Bricklink, etc.
MyMall - where I shop (links to stores, etc)
MyAuctions - auctions I’m watching, ebay, Bricklink, etc.
MyGallery - links to galleries @ Brickshelf, MOCPages, etc
MySets - links to lugnet setlist (autologin)
MyWishList - public/private wishlist of sets and parts, possibly coordinated
w/ TLC’s wishlist
MyNewsgroups - links to lugnet newsgroups I frequent
MyPosts - links to posts on lugnet that I’m tracking (in coordination w/
lugnet)
Bazaar
Deals - Deals on Lego in stores online
Auctions - Auctions in progress, archived auction data (last paid price for
set X, etc)
Stores - links to stores online, Bricklink, etc.
Reference
Sets - links to set data online (lugnet, etc)
Parts - links to parts online (peeron, lugnet, etc)
Instructions - links to instructions online (brickshelf, etc)
Catalogs - links to catalogs online (brickshelf, etc)
SiteRegistry - open-access registry of lego sites added/maintained by the site
owners themselves
Hosting
LUG Websites - links to LUG websites
Personal Websites - links to places to host your personal lego page (MOCpages,
etc)
“use this knowledge well”
-paul
~  ~ Paul
Hartzog
Et In Arcadia Lego
(custom sig image courtesy of CGidd)
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| (...) (snip) Bearing in mind that I adore LUGNET, I think this post and this way of thinking is extremely important for the future of our community. All developers within ear shot should think about it. I'm barely a graphic designer but I would (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: WorldLUG into public domain
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| (...) This sounds pretty interesting. You mention that a lot of it is coded - do you have a description of what's already created, such as specifications, proof of concept code, features, programming language(s) used, etc.? I'd like to follow this, (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: WorldLUG into public domain
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| Hi Paul, thanks for sharing your ideas and thoughts about a future "umbrella" covering all the community ressources available on the web these days. Some times ago I had a similar discussion with Jake form LEGO Direct. I want to highlight two (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: WorldLUG into public domain
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| (...) Hi Paul - I think there's significant interest to warrant you releasing your code on Sourceforge. Regardless of whether these features are implemented on LUGNET or as a part of a separate project, programmers could benefit from having a look (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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