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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.
Published By timgould on Feb 10, 2007 - 06:56 PM
The LDraw Administration Team proudly presents 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. We also plan to run this challenge quarterly.
Read full article: 'RACHAL 1 - Atmosphobic' (3883 bytes more)
Published By timgould on Jan 24, 2007 - 07:04 PM
The LDraw Administration Team proudly presents the POTM – Part Of The Month contest for LDraw Part Authors. It is no news that programmers get most of the spotlight and little goes to "the unsung heroes of the LDraw CAD world" - this contest should give more visibility to the author's work. The POTM contest has two categories:
All entries will run in both categories. People can vote for parts that they are happy about due to their own desire to use the parts, and also vote for the parts that took the most apparent effort.
Read full article: 'New LDraw Contest: POTM – Part Of The Month' (539 bytes more)
Published By Holly-Wood on Jan 24, 2007 - 12:18 PM The James Jessiman Memorial Award was established by the Jessiman Family to honor an individual who has contributed to the furthering of LDraw, the DAT format, and James' memory. This year the LDraw.org Steering Committee is please to announce the award is presented to Orion Pobursky!
Read full article: 'James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2006' (816 bytes more)
Published By Holly-Wood on Dec 14, 2006 - 03:33 PM We are pleased to announce the relaunch of LDraw.org's MOTM/SOTM contest.
Moving the curatorship has caused some trouble, but now we are back on track and open submissions to MOTM/SOTM once again. Have a look at: http://www.ldraw.org/index.php?module=LdrawMOTM Read the rules and submit you model or scene. We are aware that there is little time left for the October contest, which exceptionally will close the 27th, but we seek some more entries in addition to the stuff which has been collected from the beginning of the year. The LDraw.org Webmasters Published By Holly-Wood on Oct 15, 2006 - 04:27 PM I'm pleased to announce the relaunch of LDraw.org's MOTM/SOTM contest. After writing a few thousand lines of code, the core functionality for the new contest and voting module finished. There's not a whole lot different visually but the archive functionality has been increased. I welcome any ideas regarding the user front end. Have a look here:
http://www.ldraw.org/index.php?module=LdrawMOTM I now hand the contest back to the fans of LDraw and open submissions to MOTM/SOTM once again. Read the rules and submit you model or scene. The December contest opens on Friday, December 2nd. -Orion P.S. Since I'm still flush with accomplishment, there might be a prize to the December winners. Published By OrionP on Nov 28, 2005 - 03:36 AM Peeron, LDraw.org's gracious hosts, have begun a fundraising drive to purchase a new server.
"We're looking to upgrade Peeron's server to ensure the service continues to be fast and useful. With over 80,000 visitors a month to Peeron.com, and another 40,000 to LDraw.org (which Peeron donates free space on the server for), the speed and stability of our services has slowed." --Dan and Jennifer Boger, Peeron.com To read more about the donation drive, see the LUGNET Announcement and the Peeron Donation Drive page.
Published By Tim on Sep 07, 2004 - 02:27 AM LDraw.org celebrates five years of being online today. The project began in early 1999 and launched to the public on July 7 of that year, almost two years after James Jessiman passed away. Since then, both the site and the community have grown leaps and bounds. Thanks to everyone who has contributed over the years!
Take a stroll down memory lane, see the original announcement here. Here's to another five years! Published By Tim on Jul 08, 2004 - 01:04 AM |
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