Topic: Community

The LDraw Steering Committee has agreed to update the LSC Charter - Membership with the following text:

Membership
Membership of the LSC shall have a minimum of 5 people. The LSC can vote to create additional vacancies for future elections. The LSC also defines a procedure for voting to eliminate seats added in the future. One seat is reserved for a current LDraw Library Administrator. If there is more than one LDraw Library Administrator then the LDraw Library Administrators will self select a member to represent them on the LSC.

Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw Steering Committee

The LDraw Steering Committee (SteerCo) has been questioned what their opinion is about the possibility of charging for a third party program. The following should be taken as guideline:

Should any person wish to charge money for a third party program using the LDraw Parts Library, the LDraw SteerCo strongly recommends that it is made clear that the charge is for the program itself and not for any derivative of the LDraw Parts Library. The intent of the CC license for the library should be made clear and it should include due credit to reward the efforts of all those who have contributed to the library. We would appreciate that the LDraw logo, as well as a link to the website are included and possibly featured prominently. It should also be made clear that the author is not representing himself as LDraw.org.

Furthermore, where possible, the SteerCo would also appreciate a donation be made to Peeron.com as hosts of LDraw.org (a Paypal Donation Button can be found in the top left-hand corner of LDraw's homepage). This is, however, not by any means a requirement.

Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw Steering Committee

It has passed another year since the last election of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) were held - and again the SteerCo missed the actual deadlines :-( Nominations are now open at the LDraw forum. All nominations must be received and recorded by November 14. Elections will be held from November 17 'til November 30.

The LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) is responsible for maintaining semi-regular internal discussions on pending file format issues, the overall progress of the LDraw file format and new or proposed developments made by different LDraw-based software authors. They adopt new official standards by voting on them, and publish documentation on LDraw.org following such a decision. The LSC has documented and will document past, current and future LDraw File Formats.

In sync with "Section 6.08: Appointed Key Positions" of the LDraw Bylaws the LDraw Steering Committee has appointed Scott Wardlaw as LDraw Colormaster.

Scott has maintained the LDraw color file LDConfig.ldr since 2009 and will be from now on officially responsible for corrections and additions.

Congratulations!

Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw SteerCo

In light of continuing problems at LUGNET, LDraw has opened its own forums for discussion.

The LDraw.org Steering Committee election is now open. To vote, you may log in to the web site with your user account, then visit the:

Steering Committee Ballot

Only LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to five 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 2359 GMT, July 31, 2011 and the winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

A quick reference to the candidates for the 2011/2012 LDraw.org Steering Committee (SteerCo) election. The information is drawn from posts on LUGNET and corrections are welcome, please email the webmasters.