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OSArch - Open Source in AEC

OSArch helps support a built environment created with free software, increased transparency, and a more ethical approach.

Estimated Annual Budget
$5,106
Today's Balance
$6,820.67
A solid foundation
$10,000
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Support the following initiatives from OSArch - Open Source in AEC.

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A thank you to Andrej (@Andrej730) for his work on IfcOpenShell and BlenderBIM.

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This project looks to develop a Inkscape plugin to convert a SVG, from BlenderBIM, to an intellig...

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To develop the ability to visualize the layers that make up a layered wall/slab/covering/etc in B...

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Roundtrip IFC annotation between FreeCAD and BlenderBIM, and hopefully others.

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Sailor

$2,300 USD since Aug 2023

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Daniel

$690 USD since Jan 2024

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Lukas Alberts

$630 USD since Jul 2022

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Nigel

$560 USD since Sep 2022

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Sven Amiet

$328 USD since Sep 2022

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Edwin Guerra

$304 USD since Jun 2023

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Dion Moult

$290 USD since Nov 2020

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Bruno Postle

$290 USD since Jun 2022

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$280 USD since Sep 2022

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Topologic

$280 USD since Sep 2022

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Michael Hund

$280 USD since Sep 2022

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Kai Zhu

$230 USD since Jul 2022

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Louis Trümpler

$185 USD since Nov 2022

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Hoss Zamani

$150 USD since Jul 2022

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Arun

$131 USD since Sep 2022

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Blender 3D Architect

$1,410 USD since Jun 2022

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OpeningDesign

$900 USD since Jun 2022

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Aether Engineering

$620 USD since Jul 2022

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BIMTECH/buildingSMART_Ro

$100 USD since Oct 2022

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Graph Technologies

$40 USD since May 2024

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Dion Moult

Admin

$290 USD

Bruno Postle

Admin

$290 USD

Sailor

$2,300 USD

Blender 3D Ar...

Supporting Member

$1,410 USD

OpeningDesign

Basic Corporate

$900 USD

Daniel

$690 USD

Lukas Alberts

Basic Corporate

$630 USD

to all new arrivals

Aether Engine...

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$620 USD

Nigel

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$560 USD

Sven Amiet

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$328 USD

About



How OSArch supports the AEC industry


We provide support in five ways: 
  1. We help provide marketing and awareness for free software in the AEC industry. We develop consistent branding, and a network of grassroots sharing on free software initiatives.
  2. We provide online community groups to ask questions and discuss with others in the community about free software in AEC across multiple disciplines and tools, unrestricted to a single software, through a variety of channels. These include live chat, online forums, email contact, and virtual meetups.
  3. We provide, collect, and organise knowledge sharing material about free software in AEC. This includes written documentation, academic articles, video tutorials, training material, and this wiki that you are reading right now.
  4. We build free software. Some members of OSArch are developers who write code and create tools in response to industry needs.
  5. We make connections between developers and users, to support developers and users. We explore ways for developers to help one another by integrating software, or ways for users to experiment with new technologies that aren't yet widely available in the commercial market, or bring attention to where resources are needed.
 
All this support is provided by volunteers who are also industry professionals, just like you.

Please visit our main osarch.org site, our forum and our wiki for more information on how we are working to change the AEC industry. If you have a project you would like us to consider supporting please post on our forum so we can discuss it.

Financial support

Our funding mission is to to help open source AEC projects consolidate their efforts into more integrated, common solutions.

 We prioritize funding projects that...
  • Avoid duplication of effort
    • Those projects that integrate their code base with existing projects instead of creating their own separate, but similar, solution.
  • Support interoperability
    • Those projects that support, extend and/or create open exchange standards between separate software.
  • Have a broad and distributed contributor base
  • Make a measurable contribution to the industry
 
On this Open Collective site we raise funds for the projects we support, and help you find projects to fund. The diagram below gives a good idea of the types of projects and priorities the steering committee have outlined for 2022/2023


You have three ways to support our mission
Donating directly to an external project you trust from the list on our wiki is the most cost effective way to support your favorite project.

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Today’s balance

$6,820.67 USD

Total raised

$9,268.14 USD

Total disbursed

$2,447.47 USD

Estimated annual budget

$5,106.00 USD

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Let’s get the discussion going! This is a space for the community to converse, ask questions, say thank you, and get things done together.

Come and talk to us on our forum at community.osarch.org

Published on June 27, 2022 by Duncan Lithgow

Come and talk to us on our forum at community.osarch.org