[vtkusers] Future of activiz .net?

julien de Siebenthal jdesiebenthal at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 03:52:32 EST 2013


+1 

On 07 Dec 2013, at 09:43, davide bacci <bacci.davide at gmail.com> wrote:

> + 1
> 
> Il 06/dic/2013 16:29 "David Cole" <dlrdave at aol.com> ha scritto:
> 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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