This is another follow-up to the thread "povray standard include files" to 
discuss the organisation and management of a proposed area on povray.org for 
storage and distribution of a collection of objects and other files, 
contributed by the POV-Ray community.

Because POV-Ray can be used to model anything that exists and quite a lot 
that doesn't, it could be difficult coming up with an intuitive way to 
organise such a collection.
We need some way of organising stuff that makes it easy to keep it up to 
date without requiring much administrative effort to keep it going.

My thought is that we could have a relatively small number of areas of 
interest - e.g. Landscapes, Buildings, Spacecraft, Sports, Automotive, 
Planets/Cosmology, Organic Forms etc. with a section (and maybe a section 
owner) for each. A file could be submitted into one or more areas. Possibly 
at regular intervals, each area could be automatically built into a 
compressed archive. Someone interested in a particular area could either 
browse the collection or download one of the compressed archives and explore 
its contents.

Each area of interest could include objects, textures, macros and anything 
else related to the subject.

Any ideas?

Regards
Chris B.

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