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More info on James Jessiman
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Wed, 8 Dec 1999 02:47:53 GMT
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A while back I received an email asking for more information on James
Jessiman. I thought about what this person wrote, and it would be nice to
get some more info on James for the site, so people can have a better idea
of who he was. Below is the letter I received and my reply to it. Please
reply with thoughts on how we can improve the memorial on ldraw.org.
-Tim Courtney
ldraw.org Project Coordinator
http://www.ldraw.org
http://www.zacktron.com
AIM: timcourtne
ICQ: 23951114
At 11:35 PM 11/17/1999 , I wrote:
> At 11:11 PM 11/17/1999 , Jerry Rutherford wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Until 20 minutes ago I had never heard of LDraw, nor of James
> > Jessiman. Having seen your site, and downloading the software (still
> > need to install it...) I was wondering about the creator... what he was
> > like... education, etc.
> >
> > I went to the memorial page and could only ascertain that he was no
> > longer with us, had died of an unknown cause in 1997, and was born in
> > 1971. It would be nice to have a face to go with the name... some
> > background information... something to give myself, and others like me,
> > a feel for who this person was. (And in a spiritual way... still is.)
>
> I understand your desire to know more about James. His legacy lives on
> for those who knew him, like myself, and I hope the site provides all we
> can to keep him alive in the hearts of all LDraw users. Unfortunately,
> none of us have a picture of James. As far as I know, no one from the
> online Lego community has met him in person. He lived in Australia and
> died of flu complications at the age of 25. We don't have a whole lot of
> background information either.
>
> Certain members of the community [1] do have his parents' email address
> and keep limited contact with them. They have approved of our continued
> use of his work and the community works to respect their rights with the
> software. None of us have real solid background information about James,
> besides those who knew him well. I unfortunately only had a small amount
> of contact while he was still alive.
>
> > These are just my thoughts... as someone who jumped into the middle
> > of something with no idea of it's history. Why was it written? How long
> > did he spend on it? What other works may exist? See my point? It would
> > have been nice to say, "Thank you" to James... but my feeling is that
> > there should be something on the memorial page that tells more about
> > "the man" and what he was like.
>
> I don't know the answers to all of those questions. I know that it had to
> be written before summer 1996, because that's when I first encountered the
> online Lego community and models designed in LDraw. I did not become an
> LDraw user until mid-97, about the time when James passed away. He was
> helping me a little on grasping the program when he died. He wrote it to
> be able to share Lego model designs with others through a simple file
> format. The parts library is expandable and continues to expand today
> with the LDraw development group at lugnet.cad.dev. It is an extremely
> versatile file format and parts library which has served as a base for
> other cad programs such as MLCad and LeoCad.
>
> I'm not disagreeing with you on the memorial page. For the most part,
> when creating ldraw.org, I took the original memorial site and copied it
> as well as cleaned up a bit. No new information was added. Its been a
> couple years, and for the most part the community has moved on. He is
> still missed, but now his memory lives with us in the program he wrote and
> the impact it has had on us.
>
> > Take care,
> > Jerry
>
> I'm sorry I couldn't fulfill the answers to your questions. You bring up
> an interesting point and something that I probably should look into. I
> wouldn't mind getting more information on who James was. I don't believe
> we can get a picture, though.
>
> Thanks for writing, enjoy LDraw!
>
> [1] in this case, the original L-CAD members (now lugnet.cad.dev)
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