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At 10:17 PM 8/13/99 , Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Tim Courtney wrote:
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> > I'd say not. I'm looking more for things along the lines of gathering
> > links, making sure stuff works, making pages which are not
> > content-critical. LDrawing sets in large volume is nice, but its not
> > something considered 'giving someone an appreciation for the place' IMO.
>
> Why not? I think that Ldrawing sets is indeed useful. But then, my
> perspective is that of a consumer of instructions, not a creator of
> them, and I certainly know that I do not have the time nor the interest
> to get deep into part creation. I am grateful that there are those who
> do. It is a tough job and it takes a lot of skill.
LDrawing sets is useful, I'm not disagreeing. But the thing is Jonathan
has stockpiled bunches and bunches of these LDrawn sets and will just
submit a flood of them without editing out his own 'parts' first. I'm more
concerned with adhesion to the OMR standards.
> But I trust they will not tell me how to architect distributed systems,
> just as I would not presume to tell them how to do parts. I may vote on
> how the parts look to me, just as I welcome their input on how the
> systems I architect perform.
Correct.
> But anyway, if there is something that benefits the community as a whole
> (not specifically ldraw.org) that Jonathan is good at, and from which a
> more constructive interaction might result than if it were something
> Jonathan was NOT good at, it seems worth a try to this outsider.
I was just using ldraw.org as a suggestion. But yes, there are other
things that would benefit the community outside of doing stuff for ldraw.org.
> A few ground rules if I may be so bold:
> - no asking for parts. Do the sets you have the parts for only.
> - no using non standard parts. Not even as mockups.
> - if it doesn't display correctly on a system that has all, and only,
> the official released parts, it's wrong.
Good thoughts.
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