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The 2006 LDraw.org Steering Committee election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the ballot page on LDraw.org here: (URL) LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to five (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw.org's February 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the February 2007 Model/Scene Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Yellow Sportspeeder by Joseph Durel> (URL) SOTM, The Forces of Isengard by Philip Heinrich> The voting for the March 2007 Model of the (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Nominations Closed was Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote: --snip-- (...) Hi all, The nomination process is now closed. Thanks to everyone involved. We will announce the voting elsewhere. Tim (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Reminder: 2007 Steering Committee Nominations closing in 24 hours
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(...) And once more for 24 hours from now. Tim (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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Willy Tschager schrieb: (...) I Michael Heidemann accept the nomination. mikeheide (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Willy Tschager, second this nomination. w. (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) My thanks to the nominators for the vote of confidence, but my life will be busier than normal over the next 6 months that I, Kevin Clague, am going to decline the nomination. Kevin (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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I, Tim Gould, nominate Michael Heidemann (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Tim Gould, second this nomination (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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I, Michael Heidemann, nominate Guy Vivan. mikeheide (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Reminder: 2007 Steering Committee Nominations closing in two days
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(...) Just serving further reminder that you have two days to go. Tim (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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(...) I also have not had problems accessing your site. I am using FF 2.0.0.2. Sounds like there may be a router issue somewhere between you & Willy. ROSCO (18 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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Willy Tschager schrieb: (...) I have really no idea what is going on there. I have still no problems to reach my sides. I send to you the new version by separate Email. But again, I can not see any fault on the server side. cu Michael Heidemann (18 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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(...) the direct link doesn't work neither :-( tried with firefox 2.1 and bill's "browser" (sic!) on three different machines, with two different providers. I get your pop-up add but the page is not reachable. w. (18 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Willy Tschager schrieb: (...) Just tried to connect and I have access. I have never heard before that there are problems. The pages are hostet at arcor, which is one of the biggest hoster. (URL) is the direct link to the download page. Michael (...) (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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(...) site is down :-( ... mike, it happens quiet frequently that www.michael-heidemann.de is not reachable. anything you can do on that? w. (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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mikeheide schrieb: (...) A new Version of DATHeader is now available at www.michael-heidemann.de. Any comments are welcome Michael Heidemann (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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Travis Cobbs schrieb: (...) Good News! I have to go to update DATHeader. There should be a new version available tomorrow. (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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Yeah! Thanks guys! Big encouragement to set my parts moving again and hopefully it will encourage the community by getting a lot more parts more readily available. -Matt :) (...) ---...--- www.auctionbrick.com - username mchiles Matt Chiles 1006 (...) (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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The LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) has officially sanctioned the use of " (needs work)" in part titles to allow parts to be certified with known problems. Note that this has been used for years now in the library, but many part authors and (...) (18 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions" - updated version
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(...) I think LDraw politics are a litle more tame than Italy's ;) I don't think that would be a problem. I would hope that for it to happen the situation would have to be so bad that it would be unanimous (apart from in this type of situation which (...) (18 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions" - updated version
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(...) hmm ... as you might know Italy is going through a new cabinet crises (again) and faces new elections and the risk to be governed by mr. conflict of interest himself (read: berlusconi). what about the conflict of interest if the key position (...) (18 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Reminder: 2007 Steering Committee Nominations closing in a week
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) will close in a week, at 11:59 PM GMT on 28 February 2007 and elections will start the 1st of March. Only those candidates that have been nominated, seconded, and have accepted as outlined, will be eligible for (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions" - updated version
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(...) to get pedantic (likewise not via SteerCo) I think this may be better (change is in bold or square brackets) Section 6.09: Removal of Key Positions Key Positions are accountable to the Steering Committee and might be removed if someone fails (...) (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions" - updated version
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Many thx for your input! Find below a revised version of the motion. Please note this has not gone through the SteerCo and is proposed solely by me in an attempt to move on from this issue as quickly as possible. w. ---...--- Beginning of motion (...) (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions": Call for Public Discussion and Consensus
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While it's implied in the current text, I think you should make it expicit that "firing" someone requires 3 of the 5 SteerCo members to vote in favor of "firing" that person. --Travis (18 years ago, 19-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions": Call for Public Discussion and Consensus
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(...) Hi Willy, I agree with these additions. Just some minor changes: 6.08: "about appointments of new ones" -> "about new appointments" 6.10: "otherwise unable to fulfill" -> "otherwise unable to fulfill his or her duties" (repetetive but I think (...) (18 years ago, 19-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions": Call for Public Discussion and Consensus
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Willy Tschager schrieb: (...) snip (...) snip (...) I agree overall to your thoughts. This is a good step for the future. We should bring this point in a fast way to go. Michael Heidemann (18 years ago, 18-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Accountability of "Key Positions": Call for Public Discussion and Consensus
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Hi folks, We know that you would prefer reading about new parts updates announcements instead of politics and bureaucratics, but unfortunately those things also have to be done and decided on in order to ensure the smooth running of LDraw.org. As (...) (18 years ago, 18-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details
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(...) Here is a newly revised and _proposed_ CAreadme attempting to deal with most of the issues brought up in this post. Please note this has not gone through the SteerCo and is proposed solely by me in an attempt to move on from this issue as (...) (18 years ago, 10-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) I'm not sure about the exact text but id state derived works as "containing the original file or visual representation/rendering of..." This happily excludes models (except where they include unofficial parts), but includes all renders of both (...) (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) There is one aspect that I am a little worried about and it deals with unofficial files... we can make it clear what a model file is (references to parts only) but then we have the problem that it is considered good practise to include (...) (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) Yeah, I think the meaning was there, but the language was still a bit unclear. Here's a nice place to look for ideas on how to rework the language. (URL) section on Software is probably the closest match, and I believe this is the key (...) (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) of course with the bit about rendered images still left in... sorry. It's late :) Tim (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) Probably... maybe "LDraw.org does not consider LDraw model files (defined as being MPDs or LDR files whose main purpose is creating a model, ultimate discretion lies with the current LDraw SteerCo) to be derivative works of the Parts Library." (...) (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) Wouldn't this include modifying/converting...publishing the dat files themselves (a true derivative work)? (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) I do think we should try to get it enshrined in the Constitution too. I really doubt it's ever going to be an issue but it should go some way to assuaging people's worries. Tim (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) I think that is more workable, since it limits the README to addressing the interpretation of terminology in the license, rather than elaborating/modifying the actual license. Steve (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) Anders, I'm sorry to say this but all your comments to me in this thread have been very negative without offering anything positive in return (by way of suggestions for improvements for example). Don made some good points and through debate (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Contributor Agreement License details - updated version
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(...) Perhaps people would prefer if we changed that paragraph to something like this in the README Tim ---- LDraw.org is the sole entity responsible for enforcement of the Parts Library copyrights. LDraw.org does not consider rendered images or (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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