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Re: Perspectives on a Lego Community Website
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lugnet.general, lugnet.org
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Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:19:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Hartzog wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney wrote:
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I have more on the whole concept coming up in a later post, but just want to
bounce off of this idea. Calendar links could be entered in a central spot -
that would be good. But, taking it a step further (and underscoring that the
central site is a foundation to build off of), web objects could be
developed so a club could stick their interactive events calendar on their
homepage.
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The whole concept of web objects rests on creating some community standards
for database interactivity and website interoperability, etc.
What is the Stud?
Lego is a perfect example. The stud is an interface standard. Each brick
has a way of connecting to it, the bricks agree on the standard, in geek
terms they implement the standard.
More importantly, as time when on Lego implemented more standards like the
width of a minifig hand or rod, axles, gears, trains, etc. These things all
rely on connectivity via interface standards.
Standards are not rules that you have to follow, they are techniques to
achieve interactivity across multiple domains. If you are a pessimist you
might see standards as limiting creativity, but if you are an optimits like
me you see them as fundamentally enabling creativity, and specifically new
kinds of creativity that you can’t achieve without standards.
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Ok, so if I am following what you are saying correctly then; If a standard for
event announcement was formalized, then as each webmaster updated their own page
using that standard the community calander would notice and update itself
accordingly?
Even if that isn’t exaclty what you were thinking, then is that the sort of
thing you are talking about? (Which if it is, is pretty cool.)
Jason Spears | BrickCentral | MichLUG
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| (...) Actually that's backwards. Administrators could update information through a central web-interface and then any information they wanted displayed on their own pages would be done using web objects that retrieve information from various (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) The whole concept of web objects rests on creating some community standards for database interactivity and website interoperability, etc. What is the Stud? Lego is a perfect example. The stud is an interface standard. Each brick has a way of (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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