[Bf-docboard] Blender Proceedings

[Mike Belanger]

Mindrones, TerryWallWork, and especially Roger W., and more have done
an excellent job maintaining documentation.

So I think an improved wiki/cms engine would really help.  Even if it
shaves off just 5 minutes per doc-person, per week, that collectively
saves us loads of time, and might even encourage more people to
contribute.


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Willie Pierce <knightwalkr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll be honest I would like to see very basic tutorials for blender ie how to make a 6 sided dice, how to make a cup, How to make a realistic pool cue ball.  (modeling and texturing.)
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> Going from that a person could then give me a video of how to animate the dice moving around in the cup as the cups shaken, then a video about dropping the dice on a plane and it realistically bouncing.  Or the cue ball on a table with 14 other balls the one cue ball Impacts another and they ricochet around on The plane.
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> The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation
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> Starship troopers
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> Willie Pierce
> Pls excuse spelling errors Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 12, 2010, at 4:23 AM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You can already start workin on wiki
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide#Editing_workflow
>>
>> - if you plan a chapter rewrite, post a proposal first to avoid wasting
>> your time
>> - if it's a new page, use your user page or sandbox and ask for review
>> in the channel or here
>> - if it's a port of a 2.4 page to 2.5 (without changing much, just
>> screenshots and phrases) just do it, the 2.5 section will go under
>> review anyway later
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/12/2010 10:56 AM, Raindrops From Sky wrote:
>>
>>> In my post, I emphasized "visible", because we do not get to see any
>>> periodic updates on what's happening (such updates should reach the
>>> public through *docboard *and *Blender website*; but I don't see any
>>> updates there.).
>>
>> have a better look at this mailing list archives
>> http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/
>> and you'll find mails about what's going on and about things being done,
>> I'm pretty sure :)
>>
>>
>>> While we have the weekly Developers' MoM, we don't have a similar
>>> updates for documentation. Then how will the potential documenters know
>>> what's going on and how they will get a cue to rush for a documentation
>>> sprint?
>>
>> So I don't agree about people not communicating well.
>> When you will start documenting you'll see why a weekly doc meeting is
>> not happening: documentation has times far slower than coding IMO.
>>
>>
>>> Just five people for the entire wiki project, who are unable to spare
>>> any time?
>>> What about re-enlisting those past volunteers who prepared the wiki for
>>> 2.4x?
>>
>> Take Roger, he did a beautiful work on 2.4 docs, but if he is not here
>> doing 2.5 docs that means he hasn't time, you can't force people doing work.
>>
>>
>>> I do appreciate your hard work in the face of difficulties.
>>> But I was not focusing on those admin aspects at all.
>>
>> but still, you propose to install extensions and change structure   and
>> our templates rely on that structure to exist to work well. And also you
>> talk about managing and leadership. These is all admin stuff IMO.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I am focusing on the content-writing, uploading screenshots, preparing
>>> charts to explain certain concept, etc.; because that is how I can
>>> contribute here.
>>
>> The sandbox is there for that very reason :)
>>
>>
>>
>>> BTW Andrew has already posted his video and the slides at BlenderGuru site.
>>
>> I was referring to the documentation roundtable:
>>
>> http://download.blender.org/documentation/bc2010/blender_documentation_roundtable.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Luca
>>
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