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Re: WorldLUG into public domain
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:28:27 GMT
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Hi Paul,
thanks for sharing your ideas and thoughts about a future “umbrella” covering
all the community ressources available on the web these days. Some times ago I
had a similar discussion with Jake form LEGO Direct.
I want to highlight two aspects of the whole idea:
1. easy access to all community web ressources for newbies
2. easy access to all community web ressources for non-english native speakers
Even if my English is fine to post on lugnet or read other discussions or
private LEGO websites, I still find it difficult to get into new things, e.g.
how to be able to post at lugnet? How to use bricklink? How can I transfer money
form Germany to the US? How to implement the whole LDraw things on my private
computer to make them run?
The WorldLUG might have - and should realise the chance to answer all these
questions. I am not a computer programmer, but I work as a technical writer and
I might offer my knowledge and work to achieve these ideas. Especially the
international aspect is a challenge. If the user hits WorldLUG (who found the
link on www.lego.com ???) he/she should be able to choose his/her language as
first step. So WorldLUG might give an understandable overview about all the
countless issues. And if the design is simple, it might be easy to ask AFOLs to
help to translate the core texts of WorldLUG.
Anyway, sounds all like lots of work. But please be aware of the non-english
native speaker who really would like to use the lugnet set-guide but only don’t
know how to type in the right search-words. Or another example: Parts ref - you
really need to know how the part is called in English. www.1000steine.de
provides a German based database to find out the parts. If I find the part
nummber there it’s easier for me to use www.peeron.com for further research.
Keep on sharing ideas!
Kind regards form Germany
Holger
http://www.holgermatthes.de/bricks
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| howD all, a couple of things have precipitated this post: 1) my domain name of WorldLUG is expiring soon 2) due to my being in graduate school I will have no time to implement WorldLUG 3) I believe in cooperation over competition and open-access (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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