[Bf-committers] NVidia support: free quadros!

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

I've met one of the Nvidia tech-support people on Siggraph, and  
discussed opportunities to support Blender development. Follow-ups on  
this have resulted in:

- we can get early access to driver releases, with developer login to  
give feedback and "certify" driver releases. (Todo: who likes to do  
this?)

- related to that, we'll get listed here:	
   http://www.nvidia.com/page/partner_certified_drivers.html

- best of all: we get a couple (I asked 5, unconfirmed) free Quadro  
cards. One of the cards will be for Macs, the others for PCs.

As for the ATIs we got two years ago, I'd like to make a shortlist of  
people who are in urgent need for a 3d card upgrade.

I've already added Andrea (PC, Windows) and Jean-Luc (Mac) on that  
list. I know Joe Eagar also really suffers a bad 3d card, but he's  
using a laptop still (get a PC man!).
Just mail me personal if you'd like to get a free quadro! But note that  
active developers really will get a preference...

Thanks,

-Ton-

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