Re: [Threedsia-dev] Hi all: IRC Meeting? Any takers?

[xandi <xa...@bl...>]

Am Don, 20 Jan 2000 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
>3Dsia is possibly cooler than the Synapse Project (http://www.oreality.com/)
>'cause it's design follows the principle of "think outside of the box" (or
>window) and aims to create a more intuitive interface to Computing without
>Windoze!
I personally don't like the Synapse Project. This is actually the one project
I meant in the introduction on the 3Dsia-Homepage when I said "trying to
rebuild a windowing system in 3D". It is just a completely different philosopy. 

>3Dsia is much cooler than NetSpace (http://ns.weblink.org/) because you
>dudes have actually got working code and 
i don't know enough about NetSpace to give an answere there, but I looked
through their specs and found it quite interesting. Gerald, Marc and I think its
not usable for 3Dsia though as there are some major drawbacks (such as the lack
of beeing able to transmit raw Ogl-Data (or are we wrong?) ) . 

>a v.good development environment setup
>too (although I'm not so sure about this "/root/3Dsia/" stuff in recent CVS
>source code... - Marc???).
well.. yes. :) 
thats a bit ugly and i already have had it in my .plan to change that. (bad
bad marc, go into the corner for half an hour! :)


>Joining the 3Dsia Project gives me all 3, therefore I intend to "sign up" on
>Sourceforge as an active developer and I am keen to hear about how other people
>think I can help out.
just drop me a mail when you have an account, i will add you to the group.

>IRC MEETING (who?/when?/where?):
thats something we should really do. I would say saturday. As most of the
people live in europe and USA i guess something like GMT 22:00 would be good.
That would be ok for USA (I guess thats about 2-4 pm depending on which coast)
and in Australia 8 am - as it is sunday in australia i guess thats no problem
either (except if you sleep all day :).
but tell me what you think, but i can't participate in the time of 2am-6am
(sleeping) and 6am-3am (school) at workdays. 

> I have got in touch with the developers who have started the
> "Synapse Project" and Max Harris is organising an IRC meeting sometime soon
> (hopefully within the week). 
Honestly i am not sure what this would be good for as we do have a complete
different point of view.
They are aiming to create a toolkit for 3D-buttons and 3D-popupboxes and
windows and all that things. they are heading to make a GTK-like api in 3D.

We want to build Gibsons Matrix (the server) and an intutive to use User
Interface (the client).

> I am sure that everyone would benifit from a sharing ideas on IRC and I for
> one would be happy to be responsible for organising/running weekly/daily
> meetings. 
yes, i do agree

bye
Xandi
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