ArBIM - a new space for BIM open source in Spanish
Next Thursday we will meet by jitsi a group of BIM users and programmers from Argentina, interested in supporting the development of a BIM modeling software that allows us, within a reasonable time, not to have to use Revit, Archicad, etc.
Several of us are state public functionaries or Universities, and there are also professionals who practice the profession privately. The new space is called ArBIM and we have created a web space at http://arbim.org/ .
The reason for putting together a space of your own is fundamentally to debate in Spanish and more closely with local issues. But this new space makes sense only if it articulates with existing spaces that are also bringing together people working towards the same goal. And that is why I wrote this post: to see how on Thursday I proposed an articulation in ArBIM with this space (OSArach Community) to work together and shorten the time to obtain a competitive BIM modeler.
Best regards,
José
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@joselaks fantastic initiative! Feel free to add a section on the wiki (https://wiki.osarch.org/) which links to regional / country specific free software initiatives! That way people who speak a certain language can be directed appropriately. Hope it all goes well!
Great to hear that José. I hope we all succeed in finding a good way to avoid duplicate efforts. It would be so great to add more stable contributors to the many projects on our lists.
@joselaks out of curiosity, which free software projects is ArBIM involved with? It would be great to collaborate further and share code and developer resources.
@Moult On Thursday we will meet architects, engineers and programmers who want to contribute to the existence of open source BIM modeling software. I think that none of us is collaborating with specific projects. So it would be nice if you suggest me projects so that I can offer participation. Some of the programmers use python and others .net. The architects in engineers work in the public and private function.
@duncan , As I mentioned to @Moult , it would be good if the meeting tomorrow Thursday already presents a list of projects in which people can participate. It should be borne in mind that there will be programmers at the meeting but also many architects who do not know how to program.
@joselaks this page might help - it's incomplete, though, but you'll get the idea: https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=How_to_contribute_to_OSArch
In short, the best way to contribute:
Here's a list of projects: https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=AEC_Free_Software_directory
In OSArch, we have developers of some of those projects in the list above, and power-users of many more of those projects in the list above, and are able to direct you to the developers if need be.
FreeCAD is a strong promise for BIM industry at the moment. And you can program scripts, with python, too.
For those who are interested, I give you the link of the recording of the first ArBIM meeting:
Next Thursday we will have the second ArBIM meeting. In this challenge we will give a short introduction to Blender. I give you the text of the invitation (in Spanish): " El próximo jueves a las 18:00 hs se realizará la segunda reunión de ArBIM, el grupo de usuarios BIM que impulsamos el desarrollo de software de uso libre y código abierto. En esta ocasión tendremos una breve introducción al uso de Blender ( https://www.blender.org/) y luego debate. El link para ingresar a la reunión es https://meet.jit.si/SegundaReunionArbim . Para mas información se puede visitar nuestra web: http://arbim.org/ . Te esperamos el jueves !!"
@Moult Can we invite volunteers to contribute to Blender BIM to contact you?
@joselaks absolutely! Everybody can contribute and build anything they wish to!
in their first video, they mentioned than all south America, Centro America, and Mexico use software pirate, this is too true, ironically the piracy affects open source negatively because keeping users using proprietary software when they should use open source.
... maybe this should be political, force the governments to use open source instant pirate privative... just an idea.
El próximo jueves se va realizar la tercera reunión de ArBIM. en esta ocasión el Arq. Rafael Moya nos va a mostrar la potencialidad de FreeCAD para modelar arquitectura. FreeCAD es un software de código abierto y uso libre. La reunión será entonces el jueves 1/10 a las 18 hs y podés buscar el link de acceso en http://arbim.org/reunion-mensual/
I'm portuguese, so I can understand spanish. I'd like to see that one.
This kind of demoing is a great way of showcasing opensource sofware. And it should be reproduced by OSArch more intensively if we would find the people for it.
I see the power of freeCAD but I haven't seen anything about freeCAD that convinces me yet on it's easy usability. I struggled with/against FreeCAD for a while until I decided I would be better off modelling with Blender at some point. Seeing live examples of FreeCAD and it's potential could drive me again into it.
excellent initiative, I would really like there to be spaces like this one here in Brazil
I went on and tried it again. I tried using sketches as parametric geometry base and I have to take back what I said before. It looks like it has incredible potential, which I'm going to explore more.
@Moult In yesterday's ArBIM meeting an initiative was proposed: To have a section in Spanish within osarch.org. It's possible ? how can we implement it?
Hi @joselaks , good morning
The yesterday's meeting of Arbim was recorded? Will be upload to the youtube page?
Yes @Darth_Blender. Tomorrow we will upload the recording to youtube page.
Hey @joselaks ! It is possible to have a Spanish section in OSArch. I've just created a new category, just to see what happens - and see what people think :)
You can visit it here: https://community.osarch.org/categories/español-spanish to filter only for the Spanish category. When creating a new discussion, simply categorise your discussion under the Espanol category. Let me know if you'd like any names changed.
If you're happy with this setup, I can make you an admin so you have the power to moderate the Spanish category.
Perfect @Moult ! I will be happy to moderate this category.
I would just change the name to simply "Spanish" so that it appears after the "General"
The list doesn't have to be alphabetical - I've reordered it. How's that?
He's perfect @Moult ! I begin to spread the existence of this chapter in Spanish so we are generating Spanish-speaking debate! We are surely going to get people to join that otherwise would not.