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The following private correspondence took place today via email. It is posted
here in the spirit of openness and to further conversation about castle group
projects.
Subj: Castle World
Date: 8/13/2003 1:27:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: ikros@ozbricks.com
To: blueofnoon@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Hey Richard,
I figure it would probably be a good idea if I emailed you about this,
since there probably is good reason to keep some things private about
your important announcement and subsequent decision on the future of
Castle World.
Anyway, here is my post:
http://news.lugnet.com/castle/?n=17723
Now to be fair, I will have to say that if I were to become the CW
admin, I’d make some serious changes. Such as a total cosmetic make
over, revamping of the navigation set up, as well as an update to all
the links and the removal of broken links (and perhaps even CW members
who have been MIA for over a year). I’d also work on getting new blood,
and perhaps even more community mini-IOM-like events, some of which I’ve
been discussing with others like Leonard Hoffman. Castle World would
remain a place to showcase Balladeers and their works, but if it were
given to me, I would make it my own.
Anyway, that’s all I have to say. I hope whatever choice you make,
Castle World will benefit from it. Ben Medinets, Lenny and I all agree
that getting Castle World back in its feet is one of the core stepping
stones to getting Lugnet.castle back into the main stream.
--Anthony
Subj: Re: Castle World
Date: 8/13/2003 3:21:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: BlueOfNoon
To: ikros@ozbricks.com
Anthony writes:
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Such as a total cosmetic make over, revamping of the navigation set up, as
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well as an update to all the links and the removal of broken links (and
perhaps even CW members who have been MIA for over a year). ETC.
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Yeah, I knew you would say this. (edit: smiley emoticon here)
In the main, I think we may be discussing merely the name “Castle World,” the
available space on Ozbricks, and the email account. The CW site “as is,” and
which I have taken some time to archive, was originally entrusted to me as
something that should not be changed -- even in it’s appearance. Drag, I know.
The only change I insisted upon was to change the main page menu to reflect
existing artwork as already provided by Craig Hamilton -- which is the page you
see here:
http://www.ozbricks.net/castle/
I wanted to honor the past by properly archiving it. My CW link buttons are
based on the same artwork. And I’d like to keep that much going also -- in a
way, I have branded it already, so let’s not change the branding! Because I
think he contributed a lot of good things to the community I was even
considering an additional section of Craig’s old webpages. It is my observation
that much of his stuff was greatly admired and it is now offline. Absent his
own objection, I would archive it online also. I also have what may be the only
existing sketches of TIOM’s intended map beyond the hands of either Craig or
Pawel themselves -- those maps could also be archived online.
The existence of an archive does not disparage the possibility of an ongoing
project that could break out in a new way. We could absolutely have both the
Castle World “archive,” and a new Castle World besides. The new Castle World
would be the main page, and the archive would merely be a link from that page.
My concerns are not to compete with something else that may be in the works and
also not to diminish what has gone before. I was offering CW cooperation to
whatever was in development, I’m not at all sure we should work it to further
divide what’s left of us in Castle. Even if I did move forward with CW in some
way, I’d probably maintain at least some kind of advisory position, I think. As
it stands I am curator of the CW sub-newsgroup on lugnet also, and I would
probably keep that -- it being much simpler than the maintenance of the CW site
itself.
BTW, maintaining the CW site basically makes you everyone else’s (expletive
deleted): they send you pics and text and you have to pop it up as HTML. And
these people have innumerable difficulties understanding the simplest things
too! It’s quite the hassle and not nearly as rewarding as you’d think. I would
actually suggest that maybe we should just archive the site for now and see what
other’s have planned. Maybe CW has seen it’s day. I dunno...
FWIW, I have no problems having these discussions in public -- in fact, I prefer
that. When people have these private discussions, others are sure to feel left
out -- esp. when they learn of them later. I don’t feel that way about private
discussions myself, but others might. Plus, I’d very much like others to be
informed of what is under discussion and this stuff is absolutely on topic for
the CW sub-newsgroup. It would be my impulse to post these two emails to lugnet:
your email to me, and also this response. Do you agree?
-- Richard
I just thought you’d like to know. Everything’s in the open with CW as long as I
am in charge. Post your thoughts here, don’t write to me privately. That
policy subject to change upon someone else being in charge.
Please post followups accordingly.
-- Hop-Frog
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| Richard, First let me say that I'm glad you stepped into the CW admin role when you did, and am glad the site has been preserved. But I don't think we need to respect the wishes of people who haven't been apart of the community for 1 year +. Nothing (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, FTX)
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| | Re: Castle Builder's Guild
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| (...) Hey Hop-Frog, If you're looking for someone to pick up the reigns of Castle World, I'll be happy to take up the yolk of responsibility for it. I'm jobless right now, so I've got a lot of time on my hands, as well as a very dedicated and (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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