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Influencing what parts people work on
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As you know, The Guild of Bricksmiths,
http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=537
http://mrfws1.innovation.com/~larryp/guild/guild_blurb.html
is a big user of LDraw compatible tools, since Guild members are producing
instructions for almost all of their kits.
From time to time a Guildsman runs into a part he or she would really like to
use in a model, but for which no .dat file has yet been created.
Parts authors currently work on what they like to work on, as parts designing
is a very very hard thing to do. And that's as it should be. Who, properly,
should decide what to work on other than one's self, if there is no
compensation whatever and it's a labor of love?
However, I personally am wondering if, perhaps, some sort of arrangement with
parts authors might be arrived at to influence their decision. If you're an
author and you'd like to explore this further, drop me a note.
This is a vague idea at this point but my thinking is that if a part is done
for compensation, we might well want a mock up in a hurry to get some
instructions out or at least rough drafted, but the part would have to pass
muster in a parts vote (and thus become part of the community's library of
available parts, benefitting all of us) before all compensation would be "paid"
(the comp might be non monetary, depending on the author's interests...)
It is hard to put a price on something that takes tens or hundreds of hours to
do. Naturally we cannot afford to pay market rates for labor. Consider the
compensation as more of an influence on *what* to work on rather than as pay
for work for hire, notwithstanding what I just said about wanting to benefit
the community by ensuring the parts were high quality.
What do folks think?
Larry Pieniazek
Member, Guild of Bricksmiths
Member, Lugnet
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) Oops, I'm responding in public. Oh, well. I think my comments are fodder for the public, anyway. Jonathan Knudsen has already shown that it's possible to get parts drawn on request. I know he got at least three respondents, probably more. And (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Influencing what parts people work on
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| Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:FsEvqJ.1pI@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) designing (...) with (...) done (...) "paid" (...) to (...) pay (...) benefit (...) I see both plusses and minuses to such an arrangement: Plusses: 1. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Influencing what parts people work on
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| (...) This might be the encouragement I need to dive further into parts development. However, I would need to have a copy of the part, and I doubt I would be able to work on anything too complicated right away (ex, no (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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