[Bf-docboard] Blender still a Project?

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I can't find official texts on blender.org that call Blender a "project"... not that I would care much though.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
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On 7 May, 2013, at 23:28, Jason van Gumster wrote:

> Where are you reading that Blender is a project? Can you provide a link?
> 
> That said, here's the way I look at it. Blender itself is a product. *However*
> Blender's development is indeed a project... a continual, on-going project. The
> same can be said for Blender's documentation.
> 
> So when someone talks about the Blender project, I read that as them discussing
> Blender development... not the software.
> 
>  -Jason
> 
> Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> But what software is finished until it is painted with the EOL banner?
>> 
>> Even Microsoft windows even isn't finished as more and more new features
>> are released year after year. But they don't call it a project.
>> 
>> Linux is open source and worked on by a strong community similar to blender
>> but they don't call it project. It might have been a project in the first 2
>> or 3 years but after ten years if one still calls it a project then it
>> appears it isnt functioning as stable enough and cant be counted on for
>> very professional work, so to speak.
>> 
>> Who will wanna use a software widely known still as a project? The
>> expression project carries with it a kind of mentality of instability, non
>> reliable piece of software that the developers are working on to make it
>> useful. Meanwhile blender is already useful and used to create at least 3
>> international standard short animation movies. So what's left?
>> 
>> So why a project still for blender? Blender is passed 10 years of
>> development and its still a project?
>> 
>> If sintel and tears of steel were projects and they were created by a
>> project software, how ridiculous that might sound.
>> 
>> I'm glad Ton is around to help explain
>> 
>> Thanks
>> On May 7, 2013 5:50 PM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Nkansah Rexford
>>> <nkansahrexford at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> As per the definition of the word project it reads:
>>>> 
>>>> "An individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned and
>>>> designed to achieve a particular aim"
>>>> 
>>>> Is Blender software not past the project stages? Blender is stable,
>>>> efficient and effective, simple to use, with details and very
>>> functioning,
>>>> and for me, better than many so-called industry standards suites out
>>> there.
>>>> 
>>>> However, Blender is still called a project, and I wonder why the word,
>>>> project
>>>> 
>>>> I know its worked on by many around the globe, but that's same for even
>>>> proprietary suites, though they make money out of it.
>>>> 
>>>> Any reasons?
>>>> 
>>>> thanks
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> +Rexford | +Blender Academy | +233 266 811 165 l BFCT
>>> 
>>> Maybe it is called that because it is not finished yet?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Douglas E Knapp
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