[Bf-taskforce25] Wintercamp agenda

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

We've reviewed the topics on the wiki, and roughly divided all 
discussions and work in three categories, each for the days of the 
workshop;

1) Concepts and the big picture

First day we'll try to map out the basics and the big picture, and give 
everyone the time to communicate their issues well. We'll do a review 
of the current state of code and designs as well.
A good excercise would also to go over a couple of real bottlenecks in 
current Blender; like the complex amounts of steps you sometimes have 
to do for simple things (all the steps for how to get a UV texture 
mapped on a face!).

Result should be a list of design topics we will further go into the 
2nd day.

2) Design topics

This is still a too long list to get real structure for now; that'll be 
a nice topic for tomorrow to refine. At least three main issues have 
popped up;
- UI design level; communicating, navigation, modes, active/selection, 
etc
- Code issues; operators/rna, api access levels, future proof design 
for nodifying tools/operators.
- Python api design, also related to the above ones

This day we might also split in smaller groups or individual sessions 
to get design proposals done, to be presented later.

3) Proposals and focus

- get a good list of what the priorities for development should be, and 
which topics can be optional or postponed
- come up with as many design proposals we can find consensus for; and 
define how to present it
- roadmap / planning proposal, todo lists.

If there's time left (and we think so :) we'll also spend time on 
rendering topics; especially material/texture/shader stuff, shader 
languages, nodes, and structuring the render pipeline. Related to this 
is of course support for - or integration with - third party renderers.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands