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IFC website and documentation repo:
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What is the general aim of this repository? #60

Closed klacol closed 6 years ago

klacol commented 6 years ago

This is a...

First of all: Congrats to this approach!

Please explain the general plan with this repository and the page https://www.ifc-tech.org.

Is this a testing environment or will it stay on the long run? Which elements from http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org shall be migrated to https://www.ifc-tech.org? How is this repo related to the official repo at https://github.com/buildingsmart?

Thanks!

bigdoods commented 6 years ago

Hi Klaus,

Thank you for your message and sorry about the delay in getting back to you.

BuildingSMART commissioned the development of this as a pilot project for a centralised community knowledgebase for Open technologies in the organisation.

The idea was that we would migrate all of the content from buildingsmart-tech website to this site and appoint a buildingsmart member as an administrator that would act as a gatekeeper for the content submitted by the community. This way, incremental improvements could be made and everybody could contribute as long as they had a github account.

After three months of development, the project has stopped and the site serves no purpose anymore other than an example for the next version to use as a base ( conceptually ).

This repo remains a great project base to continue building on but it will be classed as an "unofficial" solution to the demand for a centralised community knowledgebase unless buildingSMART renew their interest.

Hopefully there will be some progress soon!

klacol commented 6 years ago

Hi John, thanks for the clarification.