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Re: LEGO Developer's Guild
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Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:10:13 GMT
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Hi Jake -
In lugnet.publish, Jake McKee writes:
> Wouldn't it be great if we had some sort of "network of knowledge"; a LEGO
> Developer's Guild, so to speak, of people who would be willing to help out
> on certain coding projects.
That would be great!
> The great thing about having a "Guild" is that you would have to pass
> certain requirements to join, which means that there would be some level of
> trust involved. This means that I wouldn't have to just pass, for instance,
> the codebase for the B.I. Portal and FTP info to somone I don't know and
> don't understand how good their coding is. Rather, I would work with a
> "certified" coder in ColdFusion.
Good plan.
> In theory, this would allow us to all help each other make bigger and better
> Web/software projects. I know that between work, life, LEGO building, and
> other stuff, I can sometimes get tired of working on the B.I. Portal. It
> worries me that the progress or stability of the site might be compromised
> because of this.
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> What do you all think about this concept? Do you have other ideas for ways
> to address this?
Although a coding guild is really outside my scope (until I start learning
PHP and MySQL, which I really hope is relatively soon), I think it would
benefit the community greatly. I've spent quite a bit of time talking to
friends about how to increase interactivity between resources in the
community. My thoughts in that area (which some of them you're familiar
with) have taken several different forms.
I think a coding guild would/could/should give way to a more open exchange
between people who maintain some of the key community resources. From there,
ideas can flow on how to make sites work with each other better, sharing
data and content, and thus resulting in a better online LEGO experience for
everyone.
So in essence, what about a guild not just for developing applications, but
for developing the community? I know until now, individual webmasters talk
to each other privately -- I know Steve in his LDraw parts library admin
role talks to Peeron, who talks to Bricklink, etc. There hasn't been a forum
that I know of where community sites are encouraged to talk openly about how
they would like to integrate with other resources. I think we could all
benefit from something like that.
Maybe these are two different ideas, maybe they're not. Your idea of a
developer guild got me thinking though. :-)
-Tim
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| (...) I can certainly see some value in what you are talking about. It's a very intriguing idea. I would see it as either: - A separate task from the Developer's Guild... gotta keep focused or - A natural side effect of the Developer's Guild Anyone (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| (I'm not sure if I have posted to the right group, or if I should have included other groups. Any ideas?) All, After a recent conversation over lunch with Sean Kenney, I started thinking... there is a lot of programming/coding talent in the LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.publish) !
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