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| In organizing my photos, I've been using descriptive identifiers such as "BricksWest-2003", "NWBrickCon-2002", and "BrickFestPDX-2004" in directory names and filenames. These get the job done, but they're becoming unweildy to deal with in long names (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Clubs/Events - Tips and Tricks
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| (...) Basically what Chris and Dave said. But here's some other things I think are core to any group, be it Lego, needlepoint or whatever.... 1. Leadership. Summary: "Just Do It!". Like a bunch of Linux nerds chatting about how they're going to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) I think this is important. Lego may be a common ground, but not everyone will fit into a group. And it isn't your goal to catch everyone. We know there are at least ten or more Lego fans in Toronto who don't come to our events--because they (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) Hi Jake, as you know from LW 2003 the dutch club 'De Bouwsteen' toke the initiative to build up a european platform under the name Eurobrick. I think this will be, for the european part of the community, the ideal platform for interaction of (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| hey Jake, Dave had some good ideas. to throw in my 2 cents..... the # 1 thing you need is leadership. PERIOD!!! you can have a great bunch of guys, but if you don't have that one (or two) person(s) to actually say, HEY the meeting is this friday, or (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) Well, the Aussie experience is probably different from the US, but here's mine anyway ;) We currently have a few groups of people in several major cities, who get together somewhere between "fairly regularly" and "once in a blue moon". These (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.au)
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| In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote: <snip> (...) First don't sweat the disenfranchisement. Seriously. I mean don't go out of your way to annoy people in the group, but if 99 club members want Mindstorms competitions and 1 guy wants to have an Aquazone (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| Here are some pointers on planning from the Brickish Association and NBLTC. Larry P was quite surprised by how the last NBLTC train display planning meeting went, so I thought I'd share it. Some clubs elect a 'Straw Boss' to draft the layout, (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| (...) Not that I'm trying to derail this thread, but our club has added one very cool addition to our drafting. Before we sort the sets out, we have a series of mini-building contests. In other words, everyone opens their own set (only one if (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
| | | | | 1000steine-Land 2004 is now oficially online!
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| Hi all, for those who are interested in, we are online with the 1000steine-Land 2004. You can find more under: (URL) For Christina its Brickfest DE :-))) Sorry it is all in german, because we had no time for translation yet. Maybe later.... Take (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.events)
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| (...) I'll write up something more complete this weekend, but on the topic of drafting, I wanted to note that MichLUG does it a little different, which I have docemented here: (URL) Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Dan for reminding me of an important point. I should have mentioned this originally. Assume I have zero info for this collection. If something has been stated elsewhere, assume I've not not seen it. Help me out and point me to that (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.org)
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| In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> This has probably already been mentioned elsewhere, but one activity that I truly enjoy at our local meetings is the set draft. In brief, we work it like this. All members who want to participate (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
| | | | | Clubs/Events - Tips and Tricks
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| As you can imagine, I get A LOT of questions from fans in my role as Community Liaison. Many are recurring themes, where fans are looking for answers to the same question. One such recurring series of questions has to do with running events and (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.events) !!
| | | | | Pictures and Video of COLTC at the Greenberg show
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| Last weekend, COLTC displayed at the Greenberg Toy, Train, and Hobby show, in Columbus, Ohio. We had one of our largest displays to date in our young life (we just turned 1 year old). We had an L-shaped, 30 x 30 foot display, with a total of 4 (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
| | | | | IDOL: International Day of LEGO
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| Greetings Earth Mortals! Looking forward two days hence A time for fun shall then commence For grown-up kids, no work, just play Some IDOL time will fill our day March 18 2004 International Day Of LEGO How will YOU celebrate? Peace and Long Life, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ne.oma)
| | | | | Re: GtwLUG to show at GATS on 20-21 March
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| (...) Cross Posting (22 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.events, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Australian Brickfest? 2005 - Survey
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| (...) Just thought I should chip in my 2 cents before I foget to reply. (...) Sydney (...) Network Tech, Optus (...) Oz Brick Gala or Lego OZ sounds good (...) I would love to visit Mexico(Melbourne) again, just couldnt get enough Tacos the last (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.events, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Australian Brickfest? 2005 - Survey
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| (...) Thought I should join in :) (...) Melbourne (...) I.T. trainer...contract (...) Lego down under...oh, wait a minute...Isn't there a shop on bricklink with that name? [though if it was to get the name I could always re-brand the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.events, lugnet.general)
| | | | | UIUC LEGO Event
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| Hi Everyone, This Friday and Saturday I held a building event at my college. I attend the University of Illinois. This weekend was the Architecture, Urban Planning, and Landscape Architecture Open House. Several hundred gradeschool students attended (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-04, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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