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Following the establishment of the LDraw Contributor Agreement in 2004 many authors have helped to re-develop the LDraw Parts that we did not have agreement to redistribute. Of the 90 original "Non-CA" files only 24 now remain and all except three have been re-developed, and are sitting in the Parts Tracker awaiting review.
I would like to get these into the next Parts Update to remove the need for this complication in the LDraw library. To help prioritize their review I have added a "Review Summary" page to the LDraw Parts Tracker. This includes the re-worked files and any dependents. It would be good if reviewers could take a look at this and prioritize their activities on these files.
Thanks in anticipation, Chris
Read full article: 'The final hurdle for Non-CA parts' (199 bytes more)
 Published By cwdee on Aug 26, 2011 - 09:21 PM Note: Edited by timgould 2 Sep 2011
Edited by cwdee 29 Dec 2011 In light of continuing problems at LUGNET, LDraw has opened its own forums for discussion.
Read full article: 'LDraw moves to own discussion forums' (476 bytes more)
Published By timgould on Jul 26, 2011 - 12:03 AM LDConfig.ldr has been updated with four new colors:
Dark_Azure
Light_Aqua
Metallic_Black
Metallic_Dark_Gray
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Published By timgould on Jun 14, 2011 - 10:04 AM The LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) has just unanimously ratified changes to official colour restrictions and specifications.
This means, that: * Direct colours, i.e. 0x02RRGGBB colour values, are now officially recognized. * Blended colours, i.e. the 256-512 range, are now officially recognized, albeit obsolete. The following spec pages have been updated accordingly: * LDraw 1.0.0 specs: http://www.ldraw.org/Article218.html * Official part restrictions specs: http://www.ldraw.org/Article512.html Michael Heidemann On behalf of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Published By mikeheide on Apr 02, 2010 - 01:25 PM The LSC has just ratified the LDraw.org Parts numbering scheme for parts with unknown numbers.
It should allow to add parts to the library where the part number is not known. As the systematic that is used up to now has reached its limits this change is necessary. Please read also the FAQ for LDraw Part Numbers Michael Heidemann On behalf of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Published By mikeheide on Feb 05, 2010 - 10:10 PM The LSC has just ratified the LDraw.org Localisation Guideline.
It should be a guideline for implementing localisations for the LDraw System of Tools. Michael Heidemann On behalf of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Published By mikeheide on Jan 06, 2010 - 10:11 PM
The LDraw Administration Team proudly presents the third RACHAL – The RAytraching CHALlenge to spur people's creativity and show different interpretations of the same source material. Please note that this is not a contest! All entries will be added immediately to a gallery at LDraw.org to be shown but not voted.
Read full article: 'RACHAL 3 - Polar' (3341 bytes more)
Published By timgould on Jun 30, 2007 - 05:00 AM
The LDraw Administration Team proudly presents the second RACHAL – The RAytraching CHALlenge to spur people's creativity and show different interpretations of the same source material. Please note that this is not a contest! All entries will be added immediately to a gallery at LDraw.org to be shown but not voted.
Read full article: 'RACHAL 2 - RACHAL Impossible' (3275 bytes more)
Published By timgould on Mar 28, 2007 - 12:34 PM We know that you would prefer reading about new parts updates announcements instead of politics and bureaucratics, but unfortunately those things also have to be done and decided on in order to ensure the smooth running of LDraw.org. As you know we have two elected bodies, the Steering Committee (SteerCo) as the overall governing structure and the LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) as the technical standards board charged with discussing, ratifying, and publishing LDraw.org file format specifications. Beside those two groups LDraw is run by other boards like the Content Management, the Helpdesk, the System Administration and last but certainly not least the Parts Tracker Administration. Since they each require specific skills and knowledge and also because they existed long before LDraw was turned into a democratic organization the volunteers occupying those positions never underwent an election and it has been tradition that outgoing members pass over the sceptre of their little kingdom to someone they thought could fill their boots. The SteerCo has been questioned about the accountability of the "chairs" at LDraw. Are they appointed, elected, etc.? Are those positions sandboxes to play with "until I‘m bored with it?; a job for life", or is the site the community‘s window to the world? If these volunteers, the PT admins or the helpdesker do a bad job, is there a way for the community to "fire" them? A highly delicate issue as you can imagine.
Read full article: 'Accountability of "Key Positions": Call for Public Discussion and Consensus' (4415 bytes more)
Published By Holly-Wood on Feb 18, 2007 - 05:44 PM
As we move forward on the Contributor Agreement for the Parts Library it is important that we have community input. This LUGNET thread has been created in order to discuss some of these issues and it would be appreciated if people took the time to read it and to comment if they feel the need.
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