[Bf-committers] Invitation to the Blender Sprint Innsbruck + possible future Blender project in Innsbruck

[Samo Korosec|Blender Sprint Innsbruck]

Hello everyone,

the Blender Sprint date has been set (21.-25.9.2006) – you can now  
definitely decide whether to apply for the sprint on not. We are  
especially interested in participants with experience with:

- Using Blender in a VR/CAVE environment
- Blender Game Engine
- Blender Python Scripting
- Blender/Verse integration
- Blender core code-base

It’s also possible to only attend for a few days out of the whole  
sprint, please read http://blog.blendersprint.org/articles/2006/08/21/ 
appying-for-the-sprint for more information.

Feel free to contact me directly, should there be any questions.



Now to something different. The Department of Architecture in  
Innsbruck has shown interest in switching to Blender for their design  
needs. What makes Blender somewhat useless for Architects right now  
is the lack of numerical input like they're used from CAD  
applications and the lack of proper NURBS support (and some more  
minor details like file format support). They know that these are not  
trivial to add, so the following idea is being worked on at the moment:

Bring together a group of students and professors from the Department  
of Architecture, Department of Mathematics, Department of Geometry  
and Department of Computer Science, invite a group of (core) Blender  
developers and organize a project where all the "missing" features  
are added. This wouldn't be a Sprint but more along the lines of  
Project: Orange, lasting two or more months and having a CAD- 
development focus instead of an animation one.

The whole thing could be sponsored through the Tyrolean Research  
Funds and the relevant department leads have already signaled an  
interest and one of the assistants working at the Department of  
Architecture is working on a proposal now. The whole thing would  
happen around spring 2007 and is somewhat dependent on the shiny-es  
of the results we achieve with the Sprint. I was asked to ask the bf- 
commiters on whether there is enough interest from the Blender  
developer community to actually participate in such a longer project  
on-site in Innsbruck.


Thanks for listening and have a nice day!
Samo Korosec