Designing Airships - bringing our collective knowledge together

Hello,
Many of us have started to collect information about designing
Airships, some are even professionally designing them. Some hobbyist
are building their own remote controlled airships, and some people are
interested and just starting out gathering knowledge. Some might
design airship by calculating on a sheet of paper or maybe excel, some
might use specific tools. I believe that there are many many bits and
pieces of knowledge spread around the community. The Building Industry
has it's tools and patterns on how to build cities, houses and other
thing. The Computer Industry has patterns on how do structure and
build software and also uses many different tools to make their work
easier and simpler. Even the Conventional Aerospace industry I would
assume has a large portfolio of patterns, tools and reference material
to refer to.
The Airshipindustry might also have it but I don't believe it is as
sophisticated and readily available. From personal experience I have
to say it's rather hard to find the appropriate information or even
the pointers to this information. To my information there is also no
integrated  development environment to develop an airship, that allows
modelling, calculations and simulations in one software product. So my
questions are:

Do you think we need a resource that collects the best practices and
patterns probably pointing to specific books for further reference?

Do we need an Airship Development Software tool that helps us design
airships in a computer aided design approach to have an integrated
development environment. The question is not who will build it but who
can see themself using it. And who would be willing to give the input
in technical and business expertise regarding mathematical formulars,
requirements aso.

I would love to start such a project and spearhead the Software
Development since I am a Computer Scientist but i would like to know
if you see a need for it and if you would be willing to contribute.
The Development model should be collaborative and the software or the
resources and artifacts produced should be available for free as
opensource so that everyone can use them enhance them and modify them.
Let me know what you think I could envision specialized versions for
designing remote controlled airships and passenger airships.

Regards

Andreas G
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Editor of Airshipworld
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