[cad-linux] Re: www.free-architecture.org

Hi James (or Jim?)!

I am really bad in replying in time at the moment, too much work these 
days even to read my mail.

Of course I cannot control a product that I cannot develop ;-) I have my 
own interest that something useable is getting developed, and I started 
to think how I, as a non-coder, could contribute something that might 
accelerate development. And for the beginning, I found that some 
platform to develop a concept of what is needed, how it should fit 
together and into a bigger environment, and finally how to implement, 
would be as useful as to give access to potential users. Actually, open 
source means nothing to most architects, it is not only a lack of 
"products", but also of understanding. Funny enough, many architects 
seam to be far from recent technological developments. So having 
something google'able, helpful right now for users, and the beginning of 
developing work together, bundling potential users and developers, was 
the intention of the software-part of the site.

There is another idea, about how to transfer open-source concepts to 
architectural work, behind the project, as well. But that is an entire 
different topic.

As it comes to wiki, I think that wikis are just one more underlying 
system of community-based content management. The problem is that they 
offer less pre-structuring, get hard to navigate sometimes and usually 
are not made for anything like user rights management. Of course, all 
the lack of structure in wikis can be their strength in some cases. As I 
did not set up the website only for development coordination (see 
above), I was concerned about keeping the site navigable, even for users 
just stepping over it.

To make it clear, if someone says that a wiki is needed for this kind of 
development work, I will set it up.

Than, for the current site, I am also very open for proposals how to 
make it more community-like. E.g. it is silly if there is only one admin 
able to approve content, new users etc. If anyone wants to contribute...?

Ah, if you have been her 40 years ago, it might be both astonishing and 
some kind of shock if you saw this city today ;-) There are few more 
dynamic places on world I guess, and dynamic is effective, both positive 
and negative.

CU Lars.

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