Open source helps housing effort
Open source software will serve at the heart of a project management system developed in a humanitarian effort to design housing for the needy.
Built on the drupal open source content management system, the Open Architecture Network Web-based system enables collaboration between building architects and designers.
"The primary focus is bringing [architectural] design services to communities who normally would not be able to afford it," said Cameron Sinclair, executive director of Architecture for Humanity, which is spearheading the project. Sinclair won a 2006 Technology Entertainment Design (TED) prize to develop the application, which will be formally launched at this year's TED conference, being held in Monterey, Calif. March 7-10.
With the system, building architects and designers can produce projects and comment on architectural drawings, for example. Copyright-free designs, building plans and blueprints can be downloaded and uploaded.
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