Comments on: Volunteering for LDraw

By: davee123

davee123 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:08:36 +0000

One other tidbit that I’ll point out, in reference to a “handy list”:

The one thing that’s very needed is an organizational utility. Something that says “part X is being worked on by person Y, and was claimed on date Z”. Something where users can easily claim parts automatically, submit them automatically, and have them accepted automatically into parts libraries.

I can’t say much about the specifics, but I can probably say that this is the sort of thing that really seemed to help on a certain aspect of LDraw before. People are happy to help, but if it’s too difficult to learn HOW to help, they won’t. Of course, I may be biased since I wrote the facilitating utility, but it seemed that it went either nowhere or very slowly until a utility existed for volunteers to help, and then in one fell swoop, contributions abounded.

DaveE

By: gambort

gambort — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:10 +0000

^^ Those are good questions and ones without easy answers but your Rhino skills are highly useful. Do you want to drop me an email (tgould(D.OT)lego(A@T)gmail(DO.T)com) and we can discuss things that way.

^ Go for it.

By: Eric Burdo

Eric Burdo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:22:03 +0000

How about a push to get a new 3D tool to replace some of the aging systems like MLCad?

By: jimmythefly

jimmythefly — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:51:27 +0000

OK, who/how do I contact someone about teaming up for parts authoring? I’ve never used LDraw, but I use Rhinoceros every day at work, and it exports 3ds. Now maybe I can do something Lego besides cruising Brothers brick and Eurobricks all day.

I’m not on Lugnet, and I’m unclear if I should just email an administrator from the LDraw contacts pager. Also, though I can find a list of parts that are being worked on , I don’t see a handy list of parts that have no one working on them yet.