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Re: LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization
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Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:57:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Steve Bliss writes:
> There's been occasional discussion about formalizing the LEGO-style CAD fan
> organization. Although an informal organization usually serves us pretty
> well, there are some things an informal group can not do, such as deal well
> with keeping a treasury, or establishing license agreements.
Plus the fact an informal group would have difficulty enforcing such a
licence agrement... Even the FSF (ie GNU's managment group) is an
'organisation'.
> Also, an
> informal organization sometimes has a hard time establishing and reaching
> goals, because no one has the responsibility to reach those goals.
> Finally, a formal organization can receive a certain level of respect and
> recognition from other groups and organizations.
Yes. Agree
> In the last month or so, some of us have had more in-depth, offline
> discussions about forming a 'real' LCAD/LDraw group, and what would be the
> best approach to reach that goal.
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> What needs to happen is a small group -- an organizational committee --
> needs to accept the charge of getting the LEGO CAD fan group through the
> organizational process.
> "Getting through the process" means the committee
> would gather input from the members, research standard (and non-standard)
> methods of organization, write a charter (or adapt/adopt an existing
> standard group charter), and finally run a ratification process (probably
> by voting) to accept the charter and bylaws.
What model where you thinking of using?
> To start this process, an adhoc committee has tentatively formed,
> consisting of the adminstrators of the ldraw.org website and parts library.
> That's these people:
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> Tim Courtney
> Jacob Sparre Andersen
> Terry Keller
> Steve Bliss
Not Todd ?
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> Additionally, we've also asked Larry Pieniazek to 'sit in' on the
> committee's communication, to lend us his expertise in volunteer/fan
> organizations and general knowledge of group functioning.
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> Between the 4+1 members, we feel we have a fair representation of the LCAD
> community--developers, authors, evangelists, and users.
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> We've also established the following short-term goals. Each of these goals
> is very important for the group, and needs to be handled as soon as
> possible.
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> 1. Spearhead the establishment of a formal LEGO CAD fan group. • Agree
> 2. Implement a process to formally register members of the group. • Agree.
> 3. Finalize licensing agreement(s) for the LDraw parts library. • Agree defintly. It's needed...
> 4. Implement a permanent parts-submission process.
>
> There has been some discussion about what type of organizational
> 'government' would work best for our group. Since we don't often get
> everyone together for meetings, it would probably be best to follow a
> representative style -- the group elects officers to handle group business.
> Except for large questions of group direction, the officers handle
> descisions. Large decisions would be handled by group decision/voting. If
> the officers don't do a good job, the group would have to choose to evict
> the officer(s), and replace them.
>
> That's about all the ground we've covered so far. There is a lot more to
> be done, but right now, we need to hear what you think about this. All
> comments are welcome, but especially answer this question:
>
> Do you agree with the selection of the ad hoc committee, and the short-term
> goals for the ad hoc committee?
Yes! However 2 additonal aims should be :
The publication, and subsquent mantianence of a standards document detaling
the LCAD standard so that suitable LCAD software can be written or mantained
for currently supported (or in the future additonal) computing platforms.
The establishment of working groups to look into extensions to the current
de-facto LCAD standard. Such as texture mapping or curves. This group would
make represntations to the committe that would be considered in standards
revison.
Your viewpoint?
Alex
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| (...) We haven't gotten that specific, yet. We're thinking along the lines of a 'town council' approach, where the elected officers are equal peers (as opposed to having offices of president, vice president, etc). As I mentioned before, we're (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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