[wplug-board] Blender event follow-up

[Joseph Prostko]

Everything sounds good to me.  Basically anything that isn't 5/13 or
5/20 works for me, since I have an event I want to attend on the 13th,
and we have our next board meeting on the 20th.

With respect to the fallback (which hopefully simply becomes a future
meeting, not a "fallback"), yes, a Git talk would be it, unless Justin
meant having a social networking event like we had previously
discussed.  In any case, do you guys think it would be good to just
single out Git?  I suppose I'm biased, but maybe a talk about DVCSs in
general would be cool.  Then again, I almost think just saying there's
going to be a talk on Git might actually attract more people than a
general DVCS talk since it's such a hot topic and it has kind of
already won the DVCS crown for better or worse.

- joe


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com> wrote:
> The proposed program looks excellent to me.  I'm on-call for the week
> that includes the 28th, but as long as there is WiFi connectivity
> available at the meeting location, I should be able to work around it (I
> don't usually get off-hours calls during any hours we'd be likely to be
> holding an event, lately the calls have typically been during the
> overnight hours).
>
> Is the fallback plan the proposed Git presentation?  Should I be
> preparing a presentation on that in case it's necessary?  (If that's the
> fallback, and we don't need it, we can always use it later - Git isn't
> changing enough at this point that the info would go stale anytime soon....)
>
> --Pat.
>
> On 4/23/2014 9:13 AM, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
>> Roland Hess wrote:
>> } - Very brief intro about Blender adoption worldwide
>> } - Screen two shorts: Big Buck Bunny (which shows the cinema quality
>> } character animation tools), and Tears of Steel (whose special effects
>> } were all done with Blender). These two really show off what the
>> } software can do, plus they are fun.
>> } - live demo of the software
>> } - Brief notes on history/how it can be no-cost
>> } - talk about possible Open Source concerns (and benefits!) within a
>> } creative pipeline
>> } - Q&A
>>
>> If we plan to show the two shorts, we may need to plan for a 90-
>> minute presentation session instead of an hour.  It depends on how
>> much time Roland plans to spend on the other topics.  Justin, if
>> you can give him a typical project that Filmmakers students would
>> work on to use for his demo, I think that would be ideal.
>>
>> } 5/10, 5/12, 5/19, 5/20, 5/23, 5/27-5/30. That's it for May.
>> }
>> } What about 5/28?
>>
>> I think the only one of these dates that can't work for me is the
>> 19th.  The 28th is soon after Memorial Day, but I can make it
>> then.
>>
>> This sounds like a great opportunity to reach a new audience.
>>
>> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
>> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
>>
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