Monthly Meetup

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November 7, 2020 at 8pm/20:00 UTC

Keynote presentation by Maximilian Thumfart on the open-source Vi-Sense Project, a project that visualizes data of heating systems in a 3D model of the building they’re installed in.

• Announcement and agenda:
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Previous meetups

ViSense November 7th, 2020

Maximillian presented Vi-Sense for the first hour and we then had a rich discussion, mostly about the website, marketing and educational resources/courses.

Website We all agree that the website needs a better presentation. The sections/topics need to be visually distinct. The organisation needs to be clearer. User:Duncan has been looking at some alternatives to the current wiki skin, Chameleon looks interesting. Robert has offered to work on a new section for basic software relevant to running an office. Robert will post something on the forum and we can take it from there. Actions

- Make more use of for the guides and how to we have. (There's a bunch of Revit ones) (Duncan)
- Look more into visual identities of pages. Maybe just distinct banner and footers is a good start.
- Robert (@RWA108) will post a bit on the forum about regular FOSS software useful for an office environment which we can be developed further on the website

Education/courses Talked about different ways to create own content. Recording the short sessions that evolve out of questions in the forum and on the chat. Cyril has some content for teaching IFC, Dion has the content he made for buildingSMART.

Marketing / outreach We talked about how stronger ties to academic institutions is important. Dion knows of these initiatives in Germany: Aachen ... ################ Duncan also has contact with a technical college in Denmark and would love to present our project and some tools to them.

Actions

- Create new wiki redesign proposal with "themed" skin for different pages (@Moult can have a shot at this)
- Rename page names to use more "How to" terminology to better reflect user needs
- Assign wiki pages to 1) A software / tool category, 2) a workflow (e.g. how-to page) / information (e.g. directory page) category

- Register a new Twitter / Mastodon OSArch account to reserve the name, open for volunteers who would like to maintain (reach out to @duncan_nz), also bridge the accounts use https://moa.party/
- Start reaching out to Academia to see if there is potential collaboration (contacted so far: Bond, USyd, Aachen)

Meeting notes by Dion & Duncan

OpenSourceEcology October 3rd, 2020

Recording: Peertube YouTube

Keynote was from Marcin from Open Source Ecology. You can see Marcins slides from the presentation.

• Announcement and agenda: https://community.osarch.org/discussion/219/3rd-october-20-00-utc-monthly-meetup

There was no discussion after the presentation but lots of interesting questions for Marcin

September 5th, 2020

Recording: Peertube YouTube

The planned presentation didn't work out. So we made a quick agenda ourselves.

• We were shown some work Bruno was doing recently on a sculpture commission with Blender and Sverchok
• We talked a bit about the website, read about that in the OSArch website design discussion
• We also talked about organization and governance, but everything we said is already in the thread Organizational Structure and Governance of OSArch

Topologic August 1st, 2020

Recording: Peertube YouTube

The presentation before discussions was about Topologic

Homemaker July 4th, 2020

Recording: Peertube YouTube

Presentation: Homemaker, evolving houses with Perl, with Bruno Postle

Other points discussed:

1. A quick preview of new FreeCAD BIM WB experimental tools by Carlo

Salome Meca June 6th, 2020

Recording: Peertube YouTube

Presentation: Jesusbill gave an introduction to Salome Meca and other engineering goodness!

Notes

1. We talked about the Mission Statement Follow up: ([User:Duncan] will make a new draft with more attention to ethical consideration adn other small refinements from the discussion thread.
2. We talked briefly about the challenges and goals FreeMVD round-tripping (Ryan, Yorik, Moult). We also discussed whether this should be a future keynote topic. Follow up: up to the FreeMVD people
3. We discussed briefly starting a website with an attractive front page to give people a very quick idea of what we're trying to do. We talked about it maybe focusing on some examples workflows for different audiences. Maybe those workflows are not ready/documentet to present yet in an attractive way. Follow up: there is a general invitation for anyone to do a mock up of how a website front page might look.
4. There was a quick mention about possible collaboration with Measure-It-ARCH & Archipack Blender Add-on. Follow up: Moult, globalcitizen, kevancress, and stephen-l will discuss this.

FreeCAD BIM May 2nd, 2020

Recording: Peertube YouTube

Presentation: Yorik presented the current state of FreeCAD BIM

Notes, things we discussed

• a mission statement (see forum thread)
• finding a real world project to work on
• roundtripping data (BlenderBIM <> FreeCAD)
• sample content like Yoriks Barcelona Pavillion

BlenderBIM April 4th, 2020

Recording: Peertube YouTube

Presentation: Moult presented the current state of BlenderBIM