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Re: Individual Membership enrollment now open
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org
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Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:52:13 GMT
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All in all these hopes and aspirations sound great and I for one am keen to
see it work.
As a further point how do you intend to delineate between what happens on
Lugnet/trains say and what happens on ILTCO? After all Lugnet/trains is the
current “International” meeting point of L Gauge train heads!.
SteveH
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lugnet.trains is and will continue to be the discussion resource for world wide
communication for LEGO train heads! ILTCO has no aspirations to be that and we
have communicated our non-intensions to Todd specifically on this topic. The
ILTCO assembly will have a mail list but it will not be use to discuss general
train topics. Those discussions will be moved to lugnet if they arise.
Some of the things that we can offer is a repository for train related articles
etc, be a rallying point for train related activities at conventions, perhaps be
the organizers of a LEGO train convention in years to come. Being organized also
affords us credibility, which may lead to a presence in publications like Model
Railroader etc. For local clubs it adds depth to news coverage etc “The XYZLTC
is one of 30 clubs world wide, there’s over a thousand enthusiasts modeling
railroads with LEGO!” If the occasion arises ILTCO might even help set
standards; a recent example of a great community LEGO standard is the moon-base
module standard. Something so simple has created a huge ground swell in that
community! Note that if the NMRA hadn’t lent a hand in standardizing DCC it
would be still splintered with each manufacturer having it’s own spec. And the
DCC for the RCX would have never happened!
The ILTCO organizing committee is not trying to govern or dictate we are merely
trying to create a stronger organized community.
SteveB
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