User:Duncan/SubFolder2/Open Letter

Dear

OSArch.org is the Open Source Architecture Project. We'd like your help in strengthening our organization by learning from your organizational experience. We are young and growing rapidly. After starting in February we now have 1,400 users on our forum with 300 discussion.

Here's a bit 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. See how to contribute to OSArch and get involved!