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Re: The future of GLUG
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Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:44:17 GMT
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In lugnet.org.glug, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> It's not much, but there is http://www.bricktopia.com/GLUG which I guess I
> never mentioned here. My bad. I'm currently using webspace at a company
> that only hosts on unix boxes so I can do cgi-bin with perl or php (which I
> prefer) but I'm doing ASP.NET stuff at work and it's getting to the point
> where I may seek the ability to host my stuff on an MS platform. At that
> point, implementing many of your good ideas (some of which we've discussed)
> would be easier for _me_.
So are you volunteering to take charge of the web site? I'm asking because
I'd love to start the tinkering process (thinking up logos, working on site
layouts, etc.) but I don't know what the current plans are or how interested
you are in getting help, or involving the community in general.
> > - game-specific news and discussion boards
>
> What for? How is that valuable to the community? I guess I'd personally
> prefer to keep news-style discussion on LUGNET as a central resource. News,
> or an advertising forum or something might be valuable, but I don't see it
> for discussion.
I don't know if it's valuable to the community, but it'd be valuable to me
and my overwhelmingly BrikWars-centric worldview. Every now and then I used
to see BrikWars rules clarification questions over in fun.gaming, which may
have been vaguely appropriate when broader issues were being addressed, but
I felt that it wasn't necessarily appropriate when people were asking about
some really obscure point that had no interest for anyone besides them, me,
and Shaun Sullivan. So I've always encouraged people to send me those
questions in private e-mail rather than eating Lugnet bandwidth.
On the other hand, those e-mail questions often turn into wide-ranging
discussions that I think would be really interesting in a public forum, as
long as that forum was better suited for people who were interested in
discussions on gaming philosophy, systems analysis, to which games you bring
doughnuts as opposed to pizza, and so forth.
So I've been thinking something like that would be cool for awhile, and
looked at implementing discussion boards on the BrikWars site (several
workable plans were abandoned due to time constraints). And I was thinking,
there are a bunch of other Lego-game authors around, maybe they'd have some
interest in that kind of thing as well. On the other hand, maybe I'm the
only one.
> Sure. That's in the planning, I just have other stuff to do too. (BTW,
> when'll we see the 2001 BW HTMLized?) :-)
lol
I've actually given up on doing the HTMLing myself and have outsourced it.
I thought I'd finally get some free time once I got out of college, but
wouldn't you know, I got a job where they pay me to play with Lego, and then
they didn't put any limit on how many hours I can work per week...
> That could be. I guess I'm not as eager for this to happen as I might be
> until someone is actually doing it. I have a few other personal projects
> going on too.
So, are you inviting someone else to volunteer to do the website then?
> How much do experiences like Castle World fit under the umbrella
> of LEGO games?
Something like the Starship RPG is definitely more of a LEGO game, Castle
World doesn't seem to have a big 'playing' component.
> Along the lines of formalizing GLUG, we've talked a little about membership,
> money, etc. Could GLUG support a for-pay membership option? What could the
> organization offer? Some ideas: expanded presense in the member directory,
> priority participation at official events, vote on organizational issues,
> etc. Anything else? How much does the org need?
Are there enough monetary costs involved that there'd be reason to start
charging? Website hosting fees aren't enough of a hit to justify putting up
with all the overhead of setting up a paid-membership system; I'll go pick
up the hosting myself if it's an issue. Whatever event fees come up are
probably best split between the people who are actually doing the event.
I'm sure there are other potential costs that just aren't occurring to me,
but are they going to be that significant?
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| (...) [snip] (...) I'm the sort of de facto web guy, only because I was trying to push GenCon organization through. You would be welcome to register the domain and work on a web page, as long as there's not a GLUG/BW conflict of interests. Please (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.glug)
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| (...) As far as I'm concerned, until we formalize things more, anyone who organizes something under the banner of GLUG is in charge of that event and no one is in charge of the group. I just pushed to make it happen. (...) It's not much, but there (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.glug)
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