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Re: Elections and Membership in ldraw.org
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:14:27 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jake McKee writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, John Riley writes:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Dan Boger writes:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:41:35PM +0000, Jake McKee wrote:
> > > > > Which brings up an interesting point... a single sign-in/membership system
> > > > > for the community at large, similar to Passport or similar. Something that
> > > > > provides a single solution for all organizations/sites that might need to do
> > > > > something similar. Interesting.
> > > >
> > > > I thought of implementing something like that a while ago - except that
> > > > it seems that it would require more cooperation between the different
> > > > sites involved than is currently available to draw upon.
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> Well, I would agree, I meant to mention I was thinking of that as a
> medium/long term solution. Sorry about that.
That's okay. I recognized that pretty quickly. Organizations need long
term visions as well as short term. Hopefully the short term solution
easily transitions into the long term stable solution. Otherwise, we may be
seeing this same sort of thread next year, discussing the best way to
determine membership, voting status, etc.
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> If you use the Passport (or really any other similar system, I just can't
> think of names off the top of my head) concept, all that the "membership"
> system does is verify users. There doesn't necessarily need to be anything
> associated with the system profile other than the
> username/password/verification. Permissions and whatnot happen on the site
> itself. If one site wants to charge a few but another doesn't, then there's
> no problem with that.
Ah. I'm glad to hear a quasi-technical explanation that Passport is merely
a verification method (which occasionally stores credit cards, something
privacy advocates don't like). Clears up some of my confusion and
reservations from my prior post. Something like Passport (just no credit
cards) is perfectly acceptable; I'd actually enjoy this, since I frequently
forget my Bricklink password (assuming Bricklink comes aboard). We could
call the service FOLUN (Fan of Lego User Name), or FOLOS (Fan of Lego Online
Subscription/Service). Or even better: FUN (FOL User Name). Or ELF (Every
Lego Fansite). I could do this for the rest of the afternoon. Alas, I need
to earn a paycheck.
Anywho, it certainly looks like the online community could go this way. I
remember recently that Peeron is allowing people to use their LUGNET set
lists to find their current parts inventory. I have yet to try it (my set
list has changed twice this past month), but this kind of cooperation is
what's needed to take this idea and make it work.
I like the idea, Jake. All from a small footnote about the confederation of
states before the US.
John
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