[Bf-education] 2.49 or 2.5 this academic year

Jessica Cortes lou.jessica.cortes at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 11:37:59 CEST 2011


Hi everyone !

I am following your discussion with great interest and I would like to ask a
question.
If you teach Blender in school, do you know company that can already take
this student to wook with Blender ? In France for exemple ?

Thank you and have a nice day !


2011/4/5 Doug Ollivier <doug at flipdesign.co.nz>

> I get a lot of confused people (students, management, teachers, IT
> department etc...) about the following:
>
> [*] sing the beta versions over the stable versions (although they were
> convinced after i just said i was doing it, and told them i can teach
> 30% more in the same time simply due to 2.5x being so much mroe logical)
>
> [*] When to write a new book. i.e. they were waiting for a new version
> before writing another book, not realizing that the blender naming
> scheme is totally $#*(%ed.  I managed to convince them it is an entirely
> new package now.
>
> [*] When to stop distributing the old book. i.e. they are still handing
> out 2.45 version books thinking it will be fine for the whole 2
> series..... Uh-Oh, wrong!
>
> This is a serious serious problem, and only gets me flack every time i
> have a new class etc.... I've simply stopped defending Blender on it,
> and say that it is great software with poor version numbering.
>
> I wish Ton would understand the headaches the current numbering system
> causes, It is a tangible issue that is holding Blender Back no-matter
> how much it improves technically.
>
>
> On 5/04/2011 11:41 a.m., Graham Hall wrote:
> > Hey I teach @ FE college in UK
> >
> > Getting some stick from management for using 2.5 beta rather than 2.49
> > - anyone else getting any?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> >
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