OSArch - Open Source in AEC
OSArch helps support a built environment created with free software, increased transparency, and a more ethical approach.
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About
How OSArch supports the AEC industry
We provide support in five ways:
- We help provide marketing and awareness for free software in the AEC industry. We develop consistent branding, and a network of grassroots sharing on free software initiatives.
- We provide online community groups to ask questions and discuss with others in the community about free software in AEC across multiple disciplines and tools, unrestricted to a single software, through a variety of channels. These include live chat, online forums, email contact, and virtual meetups.
- We provide, collect, and organise knowledge sharing material about free software in AEC. This includes written documentation, academic articles, video tutorials, training material, and this wiki that you are reading right now.
- We build free software. Some members of OSArch are developers who write code and create tools in response to industry needs.
- We make connections between developers and users, to support developers and users. We explore ways for developers to help one another by integrating software, or ways for users to experiment with new technologies that aren't yet widely available in the commercial market, or bring attention to where resources are needed.
All this support is provided by volunteers who are also industry professionals, just like you.
Please visit our main osarch.org site, our forum and our wiki for more information on how we are working to change the AEC industry. If you have a project you would like us to consider supporting please post on our forum so we can discuss it.
Financial support
We prioritize funding projects that...
- Avoid duplication of effort
- Those projects that integrate their code base with existing projects instead of creating their own separate, but similar, solution.
- Support interoperability
- Those projects that support, extend and/or create open exchange standards between separate software.
- Have a broad and distributed contributor base
- Make a measurable contribution to the industry
You have three ways to support our mission
- Donate directly to this OSArch Open Collective and we'll make sure we put it to good use
- Donate to one of the projects supported by the OSArch Open Collective
- Donate directly to an external project from the list on our wiki
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Transparent and open finances.
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Come and talk to us on our forum at community.osarch.org
Published on June 27, 2022 by Duncan Lithgow
Come and talk to us on our forum at community.osarch.org