Tuesday, July 31, 2007

[papercreters] Code Expectations

I think it's important to establish our expectations for the
Papercrete Code Project.

What do we as a group hope to accomplish?

We don't have to get into the nitty gritty details of code
specifics. For this thing to work we all need a good understanding
where we're going and what our goals are. It will help us all pull
together in the same direction.


I'll toss out a few inital opinions of my own. Hopefully others will
chime in and add to the list. Just because I propose one of these
doesn't mean everyone will agree. Feel free to tell me I'm missing
the boat.

1. Create a draft document suitable for submission to the ICC.

2. Create a code that is do-it-yourself friendly. While I'm not
wanting to prevent commercial businesses from making, promoting, and
selling papercrete, it's important that individuals that choose to
make their own be able to do so. If a commercial entity were to
write the code, they might try to put hurdles too difficult for
individuals to jump to force people to buy their product.

3. Ideally we'd be able to include all uses of papercrete. We may
determine that a divide and conquer approach is more practical. If
we can, let's try to include blocks, slipforming, roof panels,
stucco, plaster, and whatever else.

Feel free to comment and/or add your own thoughts.


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