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Subject:	Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:36:54 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > > Because learning more about what we can do with the > > LDraw format (IMO) is one of the aims of the contest. > > I looked here: > http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=142 > and here: > http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=189 > and I didn't see that as an explicitly stated goal. I may > have missed it somewhere else though. Well. We may have forgotten to write it down, but I remember it as one of the ideas, when we originally started MOTM (and I wrote the first two versions of the software for MOTM/SOTM). > Didn't mean to imply you were, but I thought we had > arrived at a consensus among those participating in the > discussion prior to Orion to going public. It is kind of hard to arrive at consensus during holidays (unless you only want consensus among those who happen to be able to join the discussion :-). > I guess I'd like to avoid what could easily become an open > source religious war from interfering in the adoption of > what seems like a simple and straightforward improvement > to the contest procedures. What »open source religious war«? Nobody has talked about open source. > So unless there is some overriding reason, other than > personal preference, for requiring source, I don't think > it's reasonable or necessary. I consider both learning from the source and the ability for people to view the model from any angle they want to be reasonable and sufficient arguments for requiring source. > Further, insisting on it could prevent this change from > being adopted. I don't think so. Play well, Jacob -- City X'ers delivery van (building instructions): http://jacob.sparre.dk/CityXers/Kassevogn/

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		Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
(...) OK, I'll accept that and agree that it's a goal of the contest. Going forward though, I think we're still suffering from not having formal organization in place, in an ideal world this proposal would have passed through the steering committee (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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		Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
(...) I looked here: (URL) and here: (URL) I didn't see that as an explicitly stated goal. I may have missed it somewhere else though. (...) I'm not sure I agree. Perhaps slightly less than if they are. I think there are lots of learning (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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