User: two_can

Canada? Toronto has Alias, Montreal has Softimage

On: Visual Effects Companies in NY and Elsewhere

Toronto is a nice place (IMHO), and it does have Alias Wavefront.
Montreal has Softimage.

Both of these "near" New York...

GPL Software Citation Index?

On: Open-Source Component Repository?

Excellent Thread.

I've been thinking along the same lines for a while.

I think the key will be the "citation index", to use the scientific research term. Just like research papers.

Usually well documented code points back to where it came from, just like the web.
But more useful are forward pointing links.

ex:
"I see this really neat "pattern" from 6 months ago,
but it is not quite right,
let's look forward to see what someone had done with it, and perhaps they are closer to what I need."

This is exactly what scientific papers and such already have: citation indexes. I used the paper version (age showing) of "current contents" when doing research in a University environment. A version is now online here ISI: Online Current Contents .


A standardized set of XML-ish tags or commands to let the web spiders like Altavista or google find these sites would also be very useful...

text only Altavista

On: Altavista Redesign is more 'Portal-Like'

http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?opt=on&en c=iso88591&text=on
Above is the Link I use, this removes almost everything except the search function.
there are various settings you can set if you hunt for them.