Thanks for your encouragement Howard, Paulo & Piotr! I will wait one more day and if no one is complaining I'll add a section to our release logs.
Many greetings, Thomas 2014-02-23 22:10 GMT+01:00 Piotr Arłukowicz <pio...@inf.ug.edu.pl>: > Thomas, I've never seen your videos, they are VERY welcomed and valuable > help for many artists! Thank you! > > cheers! > Piotr > > > > Piotr Arłukowicz, PhD > University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics > Division of Artificial Intelligence, Wit Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, room 121 > phone: +48585232125, University home page: http://inf.ug.edu.pl/~piotao > Also: Polish Blender Course: http://polskikursblendera.pl/ [PL] > > > 2014-02-23 22:01 GMT+01:00 Paulo José Amaro <paul...@gmail.com>: > > > Thomas, your videos are very exciting! I'm always waiting for what's > next! > > :-D I think both the release notes and your videos are important, they > has > > different content and different approach. Both should be presented at > > blender.org. > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Howard Trickey < > howard.tric...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > I like your videos and think they would help people understand the > > features > > > of the new release as a supplement to the release log, and support > > linking > > > to them off of that page. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Beck < > > softw...@plasmasolutions.de > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Hi friends, > > > > > > > > In short > > > > ---------------------- > > > > Today I'd like to propose smth.: To add a section to our release logs > > > with > > > > the sneak peek videos for the 2.70 series that I released once a week > > for > > > > every Blender release. > > > > > > > > You can see the playlist for the current version here (every new > > version > > > > gets a new playlist) > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfceNesfWvLUCsnw1DR2Oup8hFw5z6SB2 > > > > > > > > The longer story > > > > ---------------------- > > > > My name is Thomas Beck, I'm the head of a small studio called > > > > Plasmasolutions (therefore the nick) here in Germany. Many of you > know > > me > > > > at least from the #bcon13, from IRC and as a #b3d dev. > > > > > > > > I'm teaching, using and hacking in Blender a lot and am pretty > frequent > > > in > > > > touch with the user base. While talking with users I often heard that > > > they > > > > don't know many of the new features of our releases and that they > feel > > > like > > > > they were taken by surprise when we changed something suddenly and > > > > important for them (but for us maybe not) - they are mostly not > reading > > > the > > > > ML or discussing with us on developer.blender.org. > > > > > > > > So I created a series of videos that show our current development > > > progress > > > > every week, give some insight into the development and create some > > > interest > > > > in new features - and I have to say: The comments are overwhelming > > > positive > > > > - users feel more as if they were "part of the development" (I know > > that > > > > they actually are, but they don't felt like that) now and that they > > could > > > > get a feeling for new features now early. > > > > Apart from that I'd like to give a bit of shine to the hardworking > devs > > > > that are often forgotten outside the dev universe - so I credit as > much > > > as > > > > I can ;) > > > > > > > > Reading through the comments on yt and blenderartists, many are > asking > > to > > > > make that the standard way of a release log and that we (devs) should > > put > > > > those sneak peek videos on the www.blender.org page and on the > release > > > > notes (maybe as a new features section in companion with cool Blend > > files > > > > that represent the features). > > > > > > > > I absolutely don't think that this should become the standard way of > > > > release logging - I for myself really enjoy reading (and writing) > > release > > > > logs and have a non-videoish way to look up key combinations and > ideas > > > that > > > > led to the development of a specific feature! But people are lazy > and I > > > > think we could help them by adding those vids to the logs and maybe > the > > > > website ;) > > > > > > > > Ton finds the videos cool and supposed I ask you guys here...so > what's > > > your > > > > opinion about this? Btw.: Bastien is already using a few to light up > > his > > > > dev work. > > > > > > > > Many greetings ... and go Blender go! > > > > Thomas > > > > > > > > ------ > > > > Plasmasolutions > > > > Design | Development | Training > > > > > > > > Website: Http://www.plasmasolutions.de < > http://www.plasmasolutions.de/ > > > > > > > Blog: Http://blog.plasmasolutions.de < > http://blog.plasmasolutions.de/> > > > > > > > > Telefon: 0176 2017 9565 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Paulo José O. 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