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I apologise for the lack of communication lately, especially the
past months, mainly because I have also been waiting for a
response after signing the NDA. Also the past weeks were very hot
weather so I admit I haven't been following the group that
closely.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Jan Albartus<br>
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On 2014-08-03 02:36, Jeremias Boos wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Oh that is nice to hear.<br>
I thought there where nothing official in Progress. That is the
only reason I got moving.<br>
No offense but couldn't you say something earlier when I asked
if there is still movement in that topic over a week ago. :-/<br>
<br>
best regards<br>
Jeremias Boos<br>
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Am 03.08.2014 02:27, schrieb Jan Albartus:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi guys,<br>
<br>
Blender will not need to go through greenlight to get on
Steam. I have signed an NDA with Valve a few months ago and
hopefully I have an update in the coming weeks about getting
Blender finally onto steam.<br>
<br>
Another thing that needs to be discussed with eachother is
add-ons licensing, to be able to connect both to Blender (Open
source) as well as to closed source.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Jan Albartus<br>
<br>
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On 2014-08-03 01:38, Jeremias Boos wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hmm Yeah I get your point there.<br>
I certainly have written more than this 7 e-mails.<br>
Nearly 2 Years ago I wrote on the Bf-Committers if it would
be nice to have Blender on greenlight, as greenlight was
fairly new. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2012-November/038007.html">http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2012-November/038007.html</a><br>
At that time Bf-Gamedev did not exists. <br>
Some time in between Blender Foundation got the Steam
funding/money.<br>
There was than some guy who wanted to bring blender to
Steam. But after some weeks no one ever heard of that guy
again. (I hope to be more successful)<br>
At the beginning of the Year I started a similar thread to
this one where I offered to take on that Task. But a bit
more humble than this one and I got pointed to the other guy
that wanted to bring Blender to Steam. So I thought that
there is still moving in this and sat back. <a
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6 Month later there were still no movement in that
department but this time I thought to me that I could
certainly do this.<br>
<br>
And Yes my E-mail address got on some Spammail lists but
there is nothing I can do about that.<br>
<br>
The only thing I can provide that I am real are my Social
network accounts:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/jeremias.boos">https://www.facebook.com/jeremias.boos</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/Wasabi_2007">https://twitter.com/Wasabi_2007</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/Wasabi_2007/status/495711589715443712">https://twitter.com/Wasabi_2007/status/495711589715443712</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/Wasabi2007/">https://github.com/Wasabi2007/</a><br>
<br>
If you still not convinced what would convince you?<br>
As far as the Technical knowledge goes, i have no idea what
is needed for steam. But what I read about it, it seems
fairly easy to publish anything on Steam.<br>
If there is something I can not figure out by my own I will
ask for help. Like every other person would do that never
published anything on Steam. <br>
There is a first time for anything :)<br>
If I screw up big I have no Problem to take responsibility.<br>
<br>
The money thing is I think something that nearly every
student has to face. I have not much money to play with in
the month.<br>
<br>
I hope I could convince you that I am not a scumbag that
want to abuse and betray the Blender or any other community.<br>
<br>
best regards<br>
Jeremias Boos<br>
<br>
<br>
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Am 03.08.2014 00:46, schrieb Dan McGrath:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,
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<div>Just out of curiosity, who are you and why should
everyone on Steam trust you to distribute binaries to
their computers?</div>
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<div>So far all I see is some guy that can't afford $100
that came out of nowhere, registered a "Blender
Foundation" account on Steam prior to getting official
permission from Ton and started asking the community to
trust him to do this. Does Ton know your home address,
phone number, and has seen your face before, or
otherwise can vouch that Jeremias Boos is even your real
name?</div>
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<div>A quick Google search shows dozens of *.<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:boos@gmx.de">boos@gmx.de</a>
email addresses, which does raise some red flags.
Another search of your email address history on <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.blender.org">lists.blender.org</a>
shows only 7 emails containing your email address, 6 of
which are this thread.</div>
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<div>Assuming you do get Ton's blessing, do you have the
technical skills necessary to do this? Do you have a
"trusted" computer from which to actually do the
publishing of the software from, or do you only have 1
computer that might have a history of virus infection
from pirated software downloads and surfing questionable
web sites? Have you even been infected by a virus
before?</div>
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<div>So far, I don't see any reason to support you on this
yet. Prove otherwise please :)</div>
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<div>Dan</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:36 PM,
Jeremias Boos <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>To give a little update.<br>
<br>
I created a Blender Foundation Steam account on a
E-mail address on my own Server with domain.<br>
So it should be no Problem to transfer the account
to someone else.<br>
<br>
I also wrote with Boudwejin Rempt from the Krita
Team. <br>
He said that probably the grates problem with
Krita on greenlight was the Exposition to get
enough up votes to get through greenlight. And it
would be maybe best if Blender could be sold as
extra steam version with special steam
integration. But I am not sure if that is
necessary. <br>
<br>
I will also write to Steam if there will be any
problems with open source program's that don't
generate Money over the steam store, but anything
i read about that seems to show no problem at all
in that direction.<br>
<br>
Last thing I am a little concerned about is the
greenlight starting fee. I don't have exactly that
much money to spend. I can give something like 40$
but not the full 100$. I thought about to setup a
little indigogo campaign to get the money
together. But the minimum campaign is 500$ and I
have nothing that I could give in return as pledge
reward. <br>
If I would setup a indigogo campaign everything
over the needed 100$ would go to the
Blenderfoundation.<br>
What are you thoughts about that?<br>
<br>
best regards<br>
Jeremias Boos<br>
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Am 25.07.2014 20:47, schrieb Jeremias Boos:<br>
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Am 25.07.2014 18:06, schrieb brita:<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">For my personal
clarification, what exactly does 'Blender on
Steam' involve?</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I did a small
research at the start of my gsoc to see if I
could help with this and what I understood
was:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- steam would act as
a 'publishing' platform for blender, where
you could actually just download blender. Is
this correct? (this can be done already)</div>
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Yep that would be the main target, at first. I see
Steam as a nice way to bring Blender to more
people and have an automated system for updating
Blender. <br>
Also you have the possibility to make Beta
branches. So maybe it would also a good way to
deliver nightlys and rcs to a broader audience. <br>
Also does Steam support synchronisation to some
degree. So it would be possible to have your
settings.blend synchronised on all Blenders that
are installed over Steam.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- the steam workshop
donations, are for *steam workshop* that is
basically an interface for users to share,
discover and install mods for their games.
meaning:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> - the goal is to
support tool integration aiming for game
modding (building assets for games is the
most common, but also levels and and
behaviour may be supported). There is
already the FBX work here, for tool
integration.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> - the games
implement a part of the steam workshop api,
specifying what can be modded, what they
accept, etc</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> - the tools
(blender!) also implement a part of the API
as a way of exporting. Somewhat like the
sketchfab addon, but instead of uploading to
their website, it get uploaded to steam via
their api, saying what it is and how it can
be used.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> - steam workshop
connects these too together making
everything nice for the user</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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That would be the next step, if someone wants to
do it. Maybe this is something that is a valid
target for GSOC.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">So what are we
talking about here? Making an official
account? Getting blender downloadable on
steam? Implementing the API to export
content from blender into steam workshop?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Also, please correct
me if I understood something wrong.</div>
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That is basically the plan. With only the
exception that I am not skilled enough with the
Blender Python API or Code base to make the
Exporter/Importer stuff. So that would be the Task
for an other volunteer.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">As to the first too
options, they are more of a marketing
decision, so I leave it to Ton. The
implementation of the api, as interesting as
it could be, is not really game engine
related and therefore out of the scope of my
gsoc, so I didn't look further.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">--</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Inês Almeida</div>
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