[Radiance-general] Radiance documentation organization

[iebele]

Hi Greg,

I've checked plone. I am not convinced that this will encourage people 
to work on the documentation. I haven't seen convincing running examples 
yet - maybe others have ?

Concerning Wikipedia:

Please have a look at  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki.

This is a free software distribution which requires only MySQL, Apache 
and PHP to run.

When this wiki software is installed on a server, it /is/ a controlled 
environment. Most important feature imho is that only registered users 
can edit articles.

What kind of funding is required ? A webserver ?

-Iebele

> Hi Iebele,
>
> Good point about installation.  That definitely deserves its own  
> category, which I simply forgot.  I've also added a tutorials  
> section, which we may as well break into categories as well:
>
> I. Installation and Set-up
>     A. Standard (UNIX) distirbution
>     B. Radzilla
>     C. Windows alternatives
>     D. Other packages
>
> II. Tutorials
>     A. Basic
>     B. General, Advanced
>     B. Electric Lighting
>     C. Daylighting
>
> III. Input
>     A. CAD links and conversion tools
>     B. Photometry & Sky models
>     C. Generator programs
>     D. Scene processing (xform, replmarks, oconv, etc.)
>
> IV. Computation
>     A. Rendering (batch & interactive)
>     B. Illumination calculations
>     C. Executive programs (rad, rayfront, etc.)
>
> V. Output
>     A. Image processing
>     B. Image viewing
>     C. Image format conversion
>     D. Graphing & plotting
>
> Regarding Wikipedia, I think the discussion we had at the workshop  
> was leaning towards a more controlled environment, where people would  
> still be very free to contribute but responsible for particular parts  
> of the documentation tree.  This was the plone-based solution that  
> Peter Apian-Bennewitz proposed last year.  Much hints on getting some  
> seed (and hopefully ongoing) funding for that.
>
> -Greg
>
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