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Re: Influencing what parts people work on
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Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:56:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 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.
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 he got his parts made.
> 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...)
I'm not sure it's possible/desireable to push very hard in this
direction. It can take months for files to be included in an update.
I've got files that are over 6 months old, and they haven't been put
through an update. Because of the backlog and my inexperience, some of
them probably won't go up in the 2000-01 vote.
> 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.
"Will model parts for ABS"?
Hey, anything to expand the LDraw library.
Steve
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