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I've attached a link to a good commentary about group dynamics, social behavior, technology, and group structure in online communities. (Article: "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy") (URL) It is long, but "Part One" and "Three Things to Accept" are IMO (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX) !!
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(...) Hey Todd, This sounds great! Along with all of the ideas being discussed in the other thread, it sounds like we are in for some real growth here. These will also address many of the issues raised in the legofan.net thread. (...) This is (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) Big honkin monster kudos to Todd le Man for starting this transition! Way to go, Todd! -Paul (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) Well played:) It takes a good person to realize when they need to open up a project that was theirs to start with. (...) As Communications Officer to SciBrick, I'm ready to help out in whatever way I can toward establishing a closer (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) Thank you so much Todd! In recent discussions about the LEGO Fan .net website, I defended the point that people not happy with the current state of LUGNET should work to improve it instead of replacing it. Now, with this transition, you give (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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Wow. The first thing that springs to my mind is "Nooo!! If it ain't broke don't fix it! LUGNET is functioning just fine!"...but with a committee like you've chosen I know everything will work out dandy. And I heartily echo Ralph's words (except the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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Chats with people at BrickFest PDX last weekend got me thinking a lot more about LUGNET and its role in the community. I've bounced some of my thoughts off of various people (including three people from LEGO) and responses varied from positive to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !!
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Does anyone care to answer Kelly's original post? I'm curious. (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 1 Question: assurances & limitations [Re: LEGOFan.net - central community... ]
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(...) To my understanding the laws that has to be obeyed are the ones in which the server stands. (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.lego)
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(...) one of the points made by Brad Justus in the original WorldLUG discussion was that kid-oriented information is mired in a morass of legal difficulties particularly in Europe. There are laws about what you can show them, what you can ask them, (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.lego)
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(...) OK, that makes sense, if that's how it'll work. @8^) -Brendan (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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In lugnet.org, Kelly McKiernan wrote: [snip the rest of what Kelly said] (...) As Jake explained LEGOfan (the concept, the reasons for it) to me, I think its a great idea. It coincides with much of what the WorldLUG concept posted, so I'm encouraged (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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In lugnet.org, Brendan Powell Smith wrote: <snip> (...) Brendan, In my experience, opensource projects are generally only successfully forked when the community of users has a deep problem with the original project. This problem can be as simple as (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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(...) I think one thing that's being missed here is that you wouldn't be forced to use ANY of the features. There would be a basic 'start-up' set of features from which each individual person could choose which features they want to use from a large (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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Firstly, thanks to Jacob for responding to my concerns (and those of others) and explaining things a bit more. (...) OK, I am relieved to hear that LEGOfan.net would not simply accept any new code without some sort of evaluation process. Still, that (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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(...) Well, if it comes down to it, there's a reason the Lugnet groups are all in a lugnet hierarchy. But as you may have gathered from my other posts, I'm strongly in favor of not duplicating discussion forums. (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yep. He also runs the International System Creativity Contest. And he was just at BrickFest. :) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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<snip> (...) system (...) central (...) to his (...) <snip> It sounds like anyone can take the entire contents of LEGOFan.net and create their own version. This doesn't sound right to me. I understand that the server side code to display the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
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(...) Which part of the community, specifically? General LEGO fans? Webmasters of other LEGO-related fan web sites? (...) Why? Although I have been vocal in my opinion that Lugnet is not the perfect LEGO hub site, since it deals with a subset of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Re: Community run (was Re: LEGOFan.net...)
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[ XFUT lugnet.org ] (...) What did you expect with nine people in the current working group and not much carved in stone yet? (...) That's not good. I would at least have hoped that each of us were consistent in our replies, even if the group as a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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