Content (Was Re: [Openvrml-develop] Status update)

[Josip A. <jo...@vr...>]

Sylvain Carette wrote:
> 
> I hear this a lot...
... 
> I'm planning to release a 10 gig DVD of free vrml content but once released,
> the problem is to find a place where most people would be able to find and
> fetch it. I'll put on the repository if there is place.

Great!

I think 10G would be ok for my server (http://www.kvantni-skok.hr/), and
if I get a lot of hits wasting bandwidth, I'll have to add banners or
find some other way of sponsorship. So imho place is not a problem.

But:
Do we need another project for this? Imho this is not in scope of
openvrml. It might be part of vrspace project, but 10G is probably too
much for sourceforge... well I'm going to ask them.

clayton cottingham wrote:
> 
> the thing i think could make this shine is if it were able to be
> a) searchable
> b) borwsable
> c) categorized
> d) added too

(what means added too?)
How about making it available _only_ via vrml browser, with multiuser
capabilities included? I'm on my way to integrate vrspace with jxta (p2p
network), so users should be able to share files by giving them to each
other etc.

> things that worry me:
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/1443231&mode=thread
> about the rise and fall of sites that have valid data
> and what happens to all that hard work
> 
> also if you have time check out the star wars 3d repository or one of
> the 3ds repositories too
> 
> just to see how they've done it!

Good points.

Regards...