Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] GNU cad/cam

hello;

i thought more about this late last night and again this
morning. i have come to the conclusion that the reason it
is so difficult to find helpers particularly good helpers
is that cad/cam is perceived as not being 'glitzy' enough.
it has no 'sex appeal'. it is perceived as being an "old"
technology. when i explain it to potential helpers i would
be willing to bet that they have visions of a dimly lighted
dirty oily factory with people standing around battleship
gray machines churning out a non-descript part. they may also
have the image of that student in high school who took
industrial arts instead of other classes and was looked down
on. (industrial arts in high schools has a bad image.)

in their mind raytracing has glitz and sex appeal. they have
the perception of a graphic artist sitting in an art deco
office or cube designing these real cool looking movie posters.
they want to help on something that would produce a 'toy story'
or 'shreik' movie. they do not want to work on something so
someone somewhere may produce thousands of non-descript widgets.

so the question is:
how do you present cad/cam has having glitz and sex appeal?
that making thousands of non-descript widgets is actually fun
and not boring.

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Jon Elson wrote:

"Terry L. Ridder" wrote:
terrylr>
terrylr> hello;
terrylr>
terrylr> gnu cad/cam has not died, since i am still very much alive.
terrylr> there is only a single person working on it, me.
terrylr>

jon>
jon> Good to hear it (and you) are still alive. It might help if you can
jon> come up with a partner over the net. Sometimes it really helps
jon> to have somebody who is good at things that you are not so
jon> expert at.
jon>
jon> Jon
jon>

--
Terry L. Ridder
Blue Danube Software (Blaue Donau Software)
"We do not write software, we compose it."

digging deep, i feel my conscience burn
i need to know who and what i am
this hunger jolts me from complacency
rocks me, makes me meet myself
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