[Uni-verse] Plans for Wiki

[Lauri Savioja]

Hi Emil,

Your proposal looks very good!

I have only one suggestion. It seems that there are quite many
applications (as not all of them are listed here, yet). Therefore I
would like to have one more hierarchy level. For example in
Applications there could be:

  ...
  - Rendering
    - Quel Solaar
    ...
  - Audio
    - Acoustic geometry reduction (Samuel, do you have a name for this app?)
    - UVAS
    - Audio rendering
  ...

I noticed that at least the following applications were not listed yet:

- The slim rendering client (PDA client)
- Dynamic mesh generation
- Radiosity module

All the best,
	Lauri

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006, Emil Brink wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> As was discussed during last week's meeting, I've been looking into
> getting our documentations Wiki:ized, at blender.org.
> 
> So far, I've come up with a page structure plan outlined below. I intend
> that each section or page about an official Uni-Verse deliverable should be
> clearly marked as such, and that we of course also include a special page
> collecting them all, linking the documentation for the deliverables (when
> they are software) together.
> 
> I'm not sure if it's a good idea to include things that are *not* official
> Uni-Verse deliverables ... It helps, since it further collects things and
> makes them visible, but it's no good if it duplicates things that are al-
> ready documented elsewhere. On the other hand, *moving* docs into the Wiki
> is the plan, so guess we want other sources of documentation to go away,
> over time (when it makes sense).
> 
> The outline:
> 
> Uni-Verse Documentation Front Page
>  - Introduction, Partners, News (?), ...
>  - Subsections (the pages below)
>  - Links
> 
> Verse Core
>  - Overview
>  - Reference Server
>  - The API
>  - Links (homepage, spec, etc)
> 
> Applications
>  - Simple Renderer
>  - Connector
>  - Quel Solaar
>  - Loq Airou
>  - Layer Painter
>  - UV Editor
>  - VML loader/saver
>  - Purple
>  - Alternative Server
>  - UVAS
> 
> Tools
>  - pngload
> 
> Application Support
>  - 3ds max (is it named?)
>  - Maya ("Yaxche")
>  - The GIMP
>  - Blender (duh)
>  - Python Bindings
> 
> Bindings/Language Support
>  - C++: Ample
>  - Python: PyVerse
>  - Java: The Java/Verse project (perhaps not yet official?)
> 
> Here, there are four main categories or sections, with subsections as
> marked. Most subsections are likely going to be full pages of their own,
> of course, while some were mentioned just to show they're being included.
> 
> I do not volunteer to get all the existing documentation converted, although
> initial talks indicates it might be a task of interest to Blender community
> members. I will convert the simple renderer's docs into Wiki format, aiming
> to make it the single source of documentation for it. I do not intend to
> convert or more either the Verse spec(s), or the Purple user guide.
> 
> Any comments, or additions? If nobody objects too violently, I will try and
> go ahead and start creating the above, as soon as I can.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> /Emil
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