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

Hi,
ok, late reply, sorry...

> Would also be great with a free wiki, so that the community can
> quickly add and change data.

I know, but the problem with an individual running a wiki is that I have
no clue who can make me responsible for things that (completely
anonymous) "users" would post there. All the legal problems, and spam,
and... require that wikis are maintained by a rather large group of
admins, checking them at least once a day. Also the information is
getting unstructured, and while great for dictionary-like uses, I am
targeting more like guides, drafts - collaborative writing, but more in
a chapter-like style.

> You should also mention that gimp is not really usable for high depth
> photo work, but rather use cinepaint.

I have been playing around with cinepaint, and should definitely add it
to the pixel-section. On the other hand, the site is for architects, and
you will hardly find an architect handling this type of data at all
(maybe some do, but than they print it on their 4c-printer or save it as
jpeg ;-). So I think for 99,99% of architectural work, gimp is very very
ok. imho Cinepaint is great for photo- / video-professionals and
engineers (e.g. lighting).

The big gap in the software portfolio of open source is competing
3d-cad, with accuracy, useability etc.

Lars.


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