In my last article on this site “What is Smartgeometry and where should it go? (part 1)” I promised to give some of my views what SmartGeometry has achieved so far, what we are currently exploring and where interesting fields for the future might lie. The first I’ll cover in this article, the last two will be covered in the next parts of this series.

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I have just returned from a visit to the US including spending a day at Bentley Systems and going to the ACADIA Conference.

As a practical guy I find the process of software development deeply intriguing. The kinds of things that seem totally obvious to us poor users appears somewhat through the looking glass when seen from the developer.

The GC developers have been fairly quiet but the message is that they have been digging foundations, deep foundations. As a result the new GC will not seem revolutionary, but we have all to acknowledge this is fairly early days.

Recently, I have been involved in various discussions with core members of SmartGeometry about what exactly SmartGeometry is, what it should be and where it should be going. In this blog article I’ll try to explain what my point of view currently is and hopefully this will contribute to discussion about where we should go and, concerning the contents, what the next step is for the architecture, engineering and everything which relates to it.

The road to Barcelona has been very long. SG has had telephone conference every week since September to organise this event and we are hugely relieved we are beginning to see the end of the road.

We have finally sorted all the applications and the acceptances are going out as we speak.

The event has all the hallmarks of another SG new approach. It is the first time we are getting the tutors to set the agenda in the clusters (as opposed to helping attendees with their own projects). This time we do hope very much that the attendees not only get to know each other online, but actively collaborate on-line prior to the event.

So please join in!