[freearchitecture] Presentation to the list and some ideas

[Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado]

El lun, 22-09-2003 a las 06:03, Steve Hall escribió:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:47, Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado wrote:
> > 
> > Personally, I'm interested in free knowledge about architecture (not
> > only free software about architecture). I poor example:
> > http://opendesigns.ourproject.org/article.php3?id_article=10 I don't
> > know the opinion of the rest of the list about Free Architectural
> > Knowledge.
> 
> Yes, I hope this list can remain as broad as possible. While I'm
> interested in software design and physical design such as the example
> you give, I'd also like to see us resolve the world's architectural
> problems related to intellectual property rights, project management,
> building codes, inspection criteria, detail sharing, scheduling,
> documentation, etc. Architects should be comfortable here, not just
> software developers.
> 

For me, it's nice to read this...

> > I'm also thinking about how we can make an archiforge, and I'll
> > write to the list in the future about a posible solution. 
> 
> I think this is where we took a detour some time ago. We couldn't
> decide what the best format to upload files would be, since basically
> .dwg and .dxf are proprietary AutoCAD formats. Although they've both
> been reverse engineered often enough to probably qualify as a
> standard, I don't think anybody is convinced they are optimal in any
> way. Plus we'll immediately get into a versioning crisis. So I guess
> we're on hold until Bruno convinces the other list to develop around
> his CAD format nirvana. ;)


Well, yes, the CAD format it's a important issue, but I'm thinking in a
web tool, to join the collaborative work of architects. Like
sourceforge.net, but focusing in architecture (of buildings not of
computers) , that is, archiforge...I'll do a proposal in this list ASAP.

Yours,

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