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Hi All,<BR>
At the 10th Amsterdam Blender Conference this week, we called an informal lunch-time meeting to discuss<BR> the Blender Manual wiki. <BR>
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Some discussion is going on in the wiki admin team, as important technical decisions <BR>have to be taken in order to keep the wiki up to date with less effort that it’s needed now. Hopefully within a<BR> couple of weeks the situation will be clearer. The changes that need to be operated in the backend will most <BR>probably have no direct impact on current frontend/content wiki work of course.<BR>
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It is recognised that the wiki is a valuable and widely-used resource, and that a huge amount of effort has been, and still is, <BR>being put into the major changes needed following the 2.4 to 2.5 system change. But it still needs a lot <BR>of work to get it to a fully-completed state, and until recently progress has been slow. We hope that <BR>upcoming changes (new Writer Guide, etc.) will increase the flow. A call was made for volunteers <BR>to help with this effort. Unfortunately this received very few replies; but F. Siddi offered to put a <BR>call out on Blender Nation (which reaches some 2500 readers rather than the 200 Conference delegates) when <BR>Kesten is ready to start the next sprint.<BR>
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I think our efforts were under-represented at this Conference. I would like to suggest that for the next Conference <BR>there should be a proper report on the state of the Blender Manual, with a discussion of its merits, demerits and problems, <BR>and thanks to all the volunteer writers/reviewers for their work.<BR>
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Jim Tucker (sculptorjim)<BR>
Francesco Siddi (fsiddi)<BR> </div></body>
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