The move to Apache2 for the Cycles render engine has stirred quiet some controversity. Yet, recent research is indicating that permissive licenses are becoming more and more popular among Open Source projects. This presentation will show latest research on license popularity, how project growth in OSS is different from closed source software, how popular OSS projects cope with more and more contributions and how companies use the GPL to control instead of sharing. Keeping the core of Blender GPL is still a good strategy, though.
About Gottfried Hofmann
Gottfried Hofmann is a PhD student at the Open Source Research Groupd at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research topic is empirical analysis of open source software projects. In the Blender community he is known for his website www.BlenderDiplom.com which provides tutorials on advanced Blender topics.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA5Sm50H0rQ
Trailer for the short animation film "Sintel", the Durian Open Movie project by the Blender Foundation. More information http://durian.blender.org
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfdboHvshg
"Keynote" by Ton Roosendaal
Blender Conference 2023
2023-10-26 11:00 at the Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, theater.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-hQNzDSk8
A meeting for German speaking Blender heads. Thomas Dinges will briefly talk about the blend.polis forum and the annual BlenderDay, both part of the newly founded Blender e.V.
About Thomas Dinges
Thomas Dinges was born in 1991 and currently studies Computer Science. He started using Blender and got into 3D at the age of 16. In 2009 he started working on Blender as a developer, helping create the new interface for the Blender 2.5x project. Today he is an all-round developer for Blender, working mainly on the Cycles render engine and the interface.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-5n3K0rio4
Blender 2.81a? Blender 2.82? 2.83? What year is it!
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