The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) are keen to develop a recurring CAD challenge/competition and are looking for a project co-ordinator.
Inspired by CAD challenges such as the “Too Tall Toby” program the co-ordinator will lead on designing and delivering a pilot activity, leading to a sustained event. Duties will include co-ordinating judging, designing challenges, engagement and promotion, as well as identifying potential challenge sponsors.
We are looking for applicants with a strong working knowledge of FreeCAD, proven experience in event co-ordinations and great communication skills. There is more information about the project, the role and the type of person we are seeking over on the FPA Job Offers page.
We look forward to seeing your application!
8 responses to “Job Offer: Competition Co-ordinator”
The contests organized by Too Tall Boy are ridiculous, it’s for little kids modeling simple prismatic bodies, it has nothing to do with engineering
Thanks for your feedback, I’m not familiar with Too Tall Boy stuff, but have already fed back that we should look at a wider range of these types of competitions as examples. /Jo
Thats great as a principles for a little competition as it opens dialogue.
There’s competition in all sorts of engineering at all levels not dissimilar to elementary school competitions.
Just a bit of fun and anything that promotes designing in freecad is good.
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If you judge TTT by Tier 1 practice models while there are more sophisticated ones on other tiers, that’s on you 🙂
TTB’s 3D models are not sophisticated. Its models (all levels) are simple rotary or prismatic parts whose modeling is taught in the first lesson of training for some commercial 3D CAD software. He has never heard that there are draft angles on 3D models that are made in a mold (plastic, pressed, cast parts…). His knowledge is more about how to go viral on the internet than 3D CAD.
I think you are not very fair regarding “first lesson”, it sounds a bit condescending to me. However, the point of the competition is exactly that: generate buzz and interest, and that’s exactly what FreeCAD could do with. Suggesting far more complex things may sound like a lot of work with little reward to people. It’s definitely possible to explore this avenue in the future, but maybe not as the first attempt?
Upd. Maybe we should set up something where people could contribute challenge ideas.
Hmmm, is the role of FreeCAD to reduce costs for small and medium-sized companies, or to train as many children and technology enthusiasts as possible, thereby increasing sales of commercial CAD software in the future?
I agree that his models are typically quite simple and have nothing to do with engineering, but that is not the point of his game. The idea to use a competition platform to teach basic use of a complex software type and try to use the compromised attention spans of the current generations to their advantage is a good one in my book. If you wanted an engineering challenge based take on the same idea, I am afraid you would have far fewer participants, as the population with the knowledge base to do this is much smaller, and to boot, it would be a hell of a lot harder to cram it into a video under a half-hour long.