[Bf-docboard] Blender Proceedings

[Willie Pierce]

Id pay a little for a subscription to a blender pod cast.  Built mainly around well planned out and excited tutorials.  If you had 3 people doing tutorials one putting out basics tutorials another doing intermediate and the last advanced tutorials.  Broad cast these 3 every week.  

The basics would be how to simple model this and that.

Intermediate rigging smoother models and animations a little scripting for some stuff.

Advances clean modeling tips for photo realistic modeling, complex rigging and animation.  Toss in advanced scripting.  How to develop your own plug ins  

With the subscription you get down loads of the tutorials typed out w screen shots.  Maybe free down loads on a few plug in special to this.  Also throw in a few things like interviews a few advanced screening of sintel scenes.  
Yeah I'd be willing to go as far as 10 a month on something like that

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Willie Pierce
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On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:08 PM, "Juan Dario Rodas M." <jdrodas at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Se me olvidaba! so sorry!!!
> 
> Record the Blender Conference and produce a DVD/BlueRay set; pack in pdf documents with the presentation notes of the conference or workshop. Call this "Blender Conference Proceedings" and sell it through te Blender Shop.
> 
> I think we're long overdue with this. We should have a memory of this events like Siggraph does.
> 
> Greetings again!
> 
> JuanD
> 
> --- On Thu, 10/21/10, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
>> Subject: [Bf-docboard] Blender Proceedings
>> To: bf-docboard at blender.org
>> Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 11:32 AM
>> Hi docboard,
>> 
>> This is on my agenda for a long time, but there's been too
>> many other  
>> things!
>> Luckily I am getting more free time now. :)
>> 
>> Here's an idea I have to get public funding via our
>> community to  
>> increase the quantity and quality of documentation
>> projects.
>> 
>> "Blender Proceedings"
>> 
>> - Magazine style and size, full color
>> - 80 pages, 130 grs paper, 200 grs cover
>> - Regular issues, like 4 x per year
>> - Contents available in wiki.blender.org compatible
>> formatting and  
>> license
>> - Printed versions being sold online, pdf freely
>> downloadable
>> 
>> Topics for a Proceedings issue can depend on anything we
>> consider  
>> worth investing time in. Especially it can become a means
>> for our  
>> active documenters (and new writers) to spend considerable
>> time on a  
>> documentation project while getting a fee paid for it. I
>> also consider  
>> to invite developers to participate in this, to get good
>> technical docs.
>> 
>> In many cases a Proceedings can be filled by multiple
>> authors, they  
>> then just share the fees. An editor (and reviewer) should
>> be found as  
>> well, who can get a mentoring fee.
>> 
>> The name "Proceedings" has been picked to not present this
>> as manual  
>> or tutorials, but to always strive for reflecting current
>> development,  
>> or important missing docs for Blender. Issues can also be a
>> report on  
>> activities such as the Sintel Open Movie project, or the
>> full report  
>> on all presentations at the Blender Conference.
>> To make issues somewhat attractive, artwork or galleries
>> can be  
>> included as well.
>> 
>> Bizzplan:
>> 
>> - printing costs 4000 euro (1000 copies)
>> - writer fixed fee: 3000 euro
>> - mentor fixed fee: 500 euro
>> - DTP design: 2400 euro
>> 
>> With a sales price of 19 euro, it will need to sell a
>> little over 500  
>> to get return of costs. My estimate is we can sell maybe a
>> 1000,  
>> provided it's well designed and attractive. Profits then
>> goes to  
>> financing the next issue. The better it works, the more
>> docs.
>> 
>> After doing a first issue, we can also evaluate it, and
>> offer a  
>> subscription model to pre-finance it all (4 issues for 60
>> euro).
>> 
>> Start shooting crits! :)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -Ton-
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>   www.blender.org
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>> 1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>> 
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