[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes: 12-03-2017

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's 15 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.


1) Targets for Blender 2.79

- Planning and targets list:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.7

- Sergey Sharybin: Cycles OpenCL updates (GPU, AMD) updates have been merged in master.
https://wiki.blender.org/uploads/2/29/Blender_278_opencl.png
Kudos to Mai Lavelle for the good job.

- OpenHMD: a test build will become available, but waits for a small fix.

2) Blender 2.8 projects

- Campbell Barton sent a first '101' doc to the UI list:
Doc:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ideasman42/Blender101Design

Please join UI developer list to feedback:
the https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-interface

- Dalai Felinto reports good progress on the 'upgrade opengl' project:
http://stats.dalaifelinto.com/

- Campbell works on a replacement of OpenGL 'picking' for selecting, an approach that
allows Z-sorted arrays of all elements under the mouse pointer or any border.
This is in master now, User Preferences toggle under GL Select.

3) Other projects and GSoC

- Call for mentors! If you are available to mentor students and review applications,
contact Bastien Montagne, Sergey or Ton Roosendaal.

- Tom Musgrove coordinates the promotion of Blender GSoC everywhere. 
For example: make gifs to share on Twitter or Facebook.
"Best 3D coding summer job for students, go to blender.org". Or something funnier :)

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands