[vtkusers] Future of activiz .net?

[David E DeMarle]

+1
On Dec 6, 2013 10:30 AM, "David Cole" <dlrdave at aol.com> wrote:

> There has been an attempt to fund the development through crowd
>>
> funding on
>
>> kickstarter, but it was far from being successful.
>>
>
>  Reasons _might_ have been:
>> * Not that much interest in ActiViz.Net after all :(
>> * The plan was to realize 5.10 (last one I know of was 5.8) at a time
>>
> when 6.0
>
>> was (nearly) released
>> * The campaign did not reach a lot of people. There were quiet some
>>
> people
>
>> asking about the future of ActiViz.Net since the campaign failed, so
>>
> perhaps it
>
>> could have had a chance with more advertisement (no idea how and
>>
> where)
>
>
> There were exactly 20 backers of the proposed kickstarter project:
>
>     http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dlrdave/activiz-net-
> installers-featuring-vtk-510/backers
>
> Since then, there have been perhaps 10-20 inquiries about the future of
> ActiViz on the VTK mailing lists.
>
> If there is sufficient interest, I would be willing to try again, this
> time skipping VTK 5.10 and going directly to VTK 6 / master.
>
> Reply with a +1 or contact me directly if you'd like to discuss the future
> of ActiViz.
>
> (What I'd really like is a team of developers to learn how it works who
> really really want to carry it into the future..... It cannot succeed as a
> 1-man project. At least not if I'm supposed to be the 1-man.)
>
>
> Let me know,
> David C.
>
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