Asset Replacement Reboot
Posted: 23 Sep 2019, 00:12
Rather than piling on top of the MOAR thread, I thought it worth starting a new thread. I think OpenMW and the modding landscape has changed enough in the last few years to warrant revisiting several of the old assumptions that seem to have been made. Additionally, the relatively quick (and very unfortunate) failure of that project implies we should look on things with fresh eyes.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, please see this thread and this thread.
The project goals would be largely unchanged, and I've been thinking a lot about many of the details, but before we even begin discussing most of that, I think we need to establish how the project is to be organized. I would LOVE to volunteer to fully administer the project, but I simply don't have the qualifications to justify that to anyone, or the time necessary to do so. Moreover, I don't think the project will survive with one or even two main admins. Deonsion put a bunch of time and effort into setting up what sounds like a very nice custom solution to help maintain the project, but then seems to have disappeared (I honestly don't know what the circumstances were) effectively crippling the project.
We need a system that doesn't depend on the benevolence and attention of a single person (i.e. increase our bus factor). In an attempt to try and solve this myself, I spent a couple days this week looking for digital asset management solutions. Most of what I found was not only not free, but exceptionally expensive. I am very willing to chip in several dollars to help pay for hosting etc. but $3,000/month is not anywhere within our collective realm of possibility. I also learned how very out of my depth I am, never having attempted to set up something like this before.
The only promising lead I turned up was something by Entermedia, which they say is open source. You can create a free account with 100 GB storage, but I really didn't understand many of the settings and suspect this isn't entirely what we're looking for.
From what I can tell, what we need is some hosted space with the ability to set up user permissions to allow contributors to easily upload and track completed assets. Ideally it would have a check in / check out system so we don't get double ups. As long as we have relatively good communication, it shouldn't really be much of a problem, so don't think check out is necessarily essential. We need something that can be administered by multiple people, with a master account that can be passed along like many of our accounts here (our PR accounts come to mind). It also needs to be able to lay dormant for a month or two without disappearing into the ether, so it can be picked back up and continued should people or motivations disappear. It does not necessarily have to be free, but relying on donations from users is probably not the most stable.
So I guess this is my plea for help! Rebooting MOAR would be great. I think we actually will have a fair amount of help in regards to actual asset creation, as there always seems to be one or two people a month looking to help in some kind of assets related way. But in order to capture that and flesh out the rest of the goals and guidelines, we really need some kind of digital solution to help track what's being worked on. As I said before, I am happy to help with administration and even some of the asset creation once the system is set up, I'm just out of my depth in getting the initial bits sorted out.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, please see this thread and this thread.
The project goals would be largely unchanged, and I've been thinking a lot about many of the details, but before we even begin discussing most of that, I think we need to establish how the project is to be organized. I would LOVE to volunteer to fully administer the project, but I simply don't have the qualifications to justify that to anyone, or the time necessary to do so. Moreover, I don't think the project will survive with one or even two main admins. Deonsion put a bunch of time and effort into setting up what sounds like a very nice custom solution to help maintain the project, but then seems to have disappeared (I honestly don't know what the circumstances were) effectively crippling the project.
We need a system that doesn't depend on the benevolence and attention of a single person (i.e. increase our bus factor). In an attempt to try and solve this myself, I spent a couple days this week looking for digital asset management solutions. Most of what I found was not only not free, but exceptionally expensive. I am very willing to chip in several dollars to help pay for hosting etc. but $3,000/month is not anywhere within our collective realm of possibility. I also learned how very out of my depth I am, never having attempted to set up something like this before.
The only promising lead I turned up was something by Entermedia, which they say is open source. You can create a free account with 100 GB storage, but I really didn't understand many of the settings and suspect this isn't entirely what we're looking for.
From what I can tell, what we need is some hosted space with the ability to set up user permissions to allow contributors to easily upload and track completed assets. Ideally it would have a check in / check out system so we don't get double ups. As long as we have relatively good communication, it shouldn't really be much of a problem, so don't think check out is necessarily essential. We need something that can be administered by multiple people, with a master account that can be passed along like many of our accounts here (our PR accounts come to mind). It also needs to be able to lay dormant for a month or two without disappearing into the ether, so it can be picked back up and continued should people or motivations disappear. It does not necessarily have to be free, but relying on donations from users is probably not the most stable.
So I guess this is my plea for help! Rebooting MOAR would be great. I think we actually will have a fair amount of help in regards to actual asset creation, as there always seems to be one or two people a month looking to help in some kind of assets related way. But in order to capture that and flesh out the rest of the goals and guidelines, we really need some kind of digital solution to help track what's being worked on. As I said before, I am happy to help with administration and even some of the asset creation once the system is set up, I'm just out of my depth in getting the initial bits sorted out.