<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">Hi Ton </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">In regard to your request
for volunteers to update the Blender Education section I would like
to register my interest BUT! I have reservations.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">As you may recall from
earlier correspondence, I have written a basic Blender Manual and
have attempted to have a link placed on the Blender website. I have
also attempted placing a link on the Blender Wiki Page and have
submitted to Blendernation. All attempts have been to no avail and
constructive criticism has been minimal . This has not been
encouraging.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">I have a keen interest in
Blender Education since I believe Blender is a fantastic program and
should be used as an educational tool. The drawback to this is the
lack of current documentation especially basic instruction for new
Blender users. Your idea to update Blender Education is the way to
remedy this situation.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">I question whether I am
suitable to help. I would consider myself a beginner in Blender in
the sense that I realise there is a great deal to learn.
Understanding the Blender Interface is only a first step in realising
the potential of the program and , without documentation, is a
formidable task.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">I will review the links in
your email to determine what Blender Education has provided up to
date. Previous contributors to this must have formulated an agenda
which I assume would have met approval. That being the case, the
existing Blender Education section would constitute a template on
which to build a new section.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">At this stage I am
thinking that the existing Blender Education should be left in place
and perhaps a new 2.5/2.6 Education series should be created. There
is a huge amount of existing work which, although outdated, is
extremely useful. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">Having registered my
interest and before accepting any responsibility, I would wish to be
advised who is the authority for approval and criticism of a new
Blender Education section. If review is to be made by a nebulous body
of critics then the path forward could prove to be disastrous. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 May 2011 01:30, Ton Roosendaal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
I need help from volunteers to fix up our education section at<br>
<a href="http://blender.org" target="_blank">blender.org</a>.<br>
Most of the material there is very outdated... I'd even prefer to<br>
rather remove all 2.4x stuff and add back what's coming available later.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.blender.org/education-help/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/education-help/</a><br>
<br>
Same goes for the tutorial section;<br>
<a href="http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/</a><br>
<br>
Especially 'getting started' could use new material here...<br>
<br>
Preferably I'd like to see a couple of people to coordinate the entire<br>
education section here with the others. Anyone feeling like accepting<br>
some responsibility?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
-Ton-<br>
<br>
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