Re: [cgmopen-members] resources/products on web site

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

Bruce,

Thanks for getting it underway.  Maybe you can coordinate informally w/ 
vendors next week in Charlotte.

About Ematek/Ulrich:  since he is an Individual Member, Ematek does not 
qualify for this member benefit.  He is considering upgrading to 
Contributor.  Until he does, it is okay to collect his information, but 
don't integrate it into the Web pages yet.

I'll forward to you what SDI just sent to me.

Have fun,
-Lofton

At 04:46 PM 3/7/02 -0800, Bruce L. Garner wrote:
>Resources/Products Listing on CGM Open Web Site
>
>As previously discussed, it is proposed that the CGM Open Web site list
>members' products with hyperlinks to members Web sites.  The following
>information would be presented
>
>1. product name
>2. hyperlink to web site (or specific pages)
>3. brief descriptive phrase (skip for now)
>4. classification (plug-in viewer, standalone viewer, print driver,
>editor, ...)
>
>Since I agreed to collect information for these listings, I now ask for
>real data to work with. I will put together a proposal from the data
>that I receive.
>
>For now, please submit items 1, 2 and 4. I will attempt to put the data
>in a trial format for posting. As a preliminary assumption, plan for a
>link from each product to your own Web page or site.  I envision two
>listings; an alphabetical listing by vendor and a second alphabetical
>listing by product category.  If it is decided that item 3, a
>descriptive phrase, be given for each product or service, I will request
>and add that later.
>
>For each product or service that you want listed, please give
>
>         Company Name
>         Product Name or Service (without version numbers)
>         Product or service category
>                 Note:  A product or service may have one or more 
> categories.
>         See list of suggested categories below.
>         Link to your Web site or to a specific product page on your Web 
> site.
>                 Note:   A hyperlink to a Vendor home page will require less
>maintenance than a link
>                         to pages for specific products.
>
>This information will support
>
>Lofton Henderson wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Bruce Garner has agreed to help collect and organize the
> > information.  Thanks Bruce!
> >
> > We have had some preliminary discussion about structure and layout, and
> > will come back later with more details. One comment we got raises a
> > preliminary issue.  Should product information be "generic" or "specific"?
> >
> > Generic:
> > ------
> > Company XYZ:
> >      WebCGM plugin,
> >      CGM filters,
> >      etc.
> > Company ABC
> >      CGM generator toolkit
> >      CGM printer driver
> >
> > Specific:
> > ------
> > Company XYZ
> >     ViewItGood (TM) -- WebCGM plugin viewer
> >     ConvertEverything (TM) -- bi-directional filters between CGM and DXF,
> > PDF, ...
> > Company ABC
> >      etc...
> >
> > The argument against "specific" was:  too hard to maintain.
> >
> > We're thinking of a "hybrid", along these lines:  first page is more
> > "generic"; it points off to per-vendor, more specific pages, which point
> > off to the real detailed information on vendor web site.  So something 
> like:
> >
> > cgmopen.org/Resources points to ../Resources/CGMproducts/, which contains:
> >
> > -- A tabular or bullet style organized by product type/classification;
> > -- and a tabular or bullet style organized by company/vendor.
> >
> > These are generic and point off to vendor-specific pages which can contain
> > product names, classification, brief description (one sentence max?), and
> > hyperlinks to vendor Web sites.  Furthermore,
> >
> > 1.) it would make sense to make the vendor-specific pages the
> > responsibility of the vendors to keep up to date, and we'd have something
> > like quarterly update opportunities (this controls the maintenance load
> > somewhat);
> >
> > 2.) we would enforce "good taste, non-compete" presentation rules for those
> > pages.  I think we should avoid any vendor-against-vendor marketing, or too
> > much product detail.  In fact, we might design and agree on a common
> > template for those pages.
> >
> > What do you think about this issue, and the conceptual design/organization?
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Lofton.
> >
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>a "specific" listing as discussed in Lofton's message of Feb. 8th.
>
>Company XYZ
>      ViewItGood (TM) -- WebCGM plug-in viewer
>      ConvertEverything (TM) -- bi-directional filters between CGM and
>DXF,  PDF, ...
>Company ABC
>      BigDraw (TM) - Graphics montage
>      RiteYurHartOut (TM) - Word processor with CGM import
>      etc...
>
>Bruce
>
>Suggested categories:   (Note: Additions and suggestions welcome)
>
>         CGM Generators
>         Mapping graphics
>                 Presentation graphics
>                 Technical illustration graphics
>                 Charting graphics
>                 Graphics montage
>         CGM generator libraries
>         CAD with CGM export
>
>         CGM Interpreters
>         CGM conversion/translation
>                 CGM viewer
>         CGM interpreter libraries
>         CGM printer driver
>         WebCGM plug-in viewer
>         Word processor with CGM import
>
>         CGM Editors (Both interpret and generate CGMs)
>         CGM graphic editor
>                 CAD with CGM import/export
>         Mapping graphics with CGM import/export
>                 Presentation graphics with CGM import/export
>                 Technical illustration graphics with CGM import/export
>                 Graphics montage with CGM import/export
>
>CGM Analysis
>         CGM analysis tool
>                 CGM test suite
>
>CGM Translation
>         Image scanner (Vector conversion: Raster to CGM)
>                 Image conversion (Raster to CGM with tiled raster)
>                 Format conversion (IGES > CGM; CGM > PDF; CGM <> DXF; ... .)
>
>         Services
>                 Consulting
>                 Custom CGM applications
>
>         Miscellaneous
>         Redliner
>                 CGM clip art