In reference to this post the 2008/2009 LDraw LEGO Ambassador election is now open. To vote, you may log in to the web site with your user account, then visit the:

LDraw LEGO Ambassador Ballot

Only LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to three (3) candidates only. This is a secret ballot. Our PostNuke ballot module does not allow to match the votes casted to an user account.

The poll will conclude at 23:59 EDT (GMT -0500), May 19, 2008 and the winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

Congratulations to the winners of the April 2008 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month contests:

POTM - Best Part, Technic Bionicle Claw with Axle by Philippe Hurbain [Philo]
POTM – Most Desired Part, Wedge 4 x 4 Triple with Stud Notches by Willy Tschager [Holly-Wood] and LEGO Universe Team

The voting for the May 2008 contests is now open.

Visit the voting page to cast your vote. Sorry, no MOTM or SOTM this month. So far we have only 2 MOTM entry.

LDraw's history hasn't been updated for a long time. With permission from BrickJournal publisher Joe Meno we are going to mirror an article published in BrickJournal, Spring 2006, Volume #1, Issue 4, which covers also the missing years 'til 2004. This leaves us with 2005, 2006 and 2007. Browsing the various newsgroups a Lugnet I compiled a chart of the highlights, but the list is far from being complete. Feel free to add the missing pieces to this post at Lugnet.

LDraw.org has been granted all the permissions for the new All-In-One-Installer it has sought and based on these permissions a new license scheme for the installer has been chosen.

The winners of the 2007/2008 LDraw Standard Committee (LSC) election are (in alphabetical order by last name):

Travis Cobbs
Mike Heidemann
William Howard
Philippe Hurbain
Orion Pobursky

Congratulations to the new LDraw Standard Committee (LSC) members!

When the Lego Universe Team has started to share rough data of 80 parts http://www.ldraw.org/Article489.html and soon after I've got feedback from part authors that because of their excellent quality those parts were heavyweights and would give us a hard time reducing the file size I was curious to what extend I could strip them down. After approx. 10 working hours my part was cut by 92%.

The chart lists brick shapes we've got from the LEGO Universe Team. They need some clean-up to be suitable for the LDraw Parts Tracker. If you wanna contribute just download the file you want work on, but don't forget to email the LDraw Administration Team telling the part number your working on - your name will be associated with the part in order to avoid overlap.

As announced in this article members of the Steering Committee (SteerCo) have been in contact with LEGO to look at ways of working together to ease the conversion between the LEGO Digital Designer and the LDraw System Of Tools. This relationship has led the LDraw Steering Committee to the Lego Universe project in regards to it's building tools and such. So to help the process along, The Lego Universe team has started to share information regarding the brick shapes to further the relationship.