LILUG General Meeting - Tuesday, 12 November, 2002
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
Speaker
- Marco Scoffier - Blender
- Marco Scoffier gave a talk on Blender, a 3D drawing package recently released under the GPL license. Blender was written in C, C++, OpenGL, and Python, started by Todd Rosenthall. The business model of Blender was to distribute the binaries to make content for free, and charge for the professional version when selling content made with Blender. Blender can make movies, do ray tracing, rendering, and even has a plugin to render environments to allow making video games.
- Marco drew a deformed sphere, made an environment with lighting, and rendered a movie of this smooth deformed sphere moving.
- One important note: there is no undo in Blender!
Group Business
Nominations for December Government Elections
- President: Matt Newhall (incumbent)
- Vice-President: Chris Knadle (incumbent)
- Treasurer: John Palmieri
- Secretary: Matt Surico (incumbent)
Raffles
- Floppy Drive: Jim Browne
- Memory Sticks: won by unknown
- Set of 3 Muffin Fans in 3U rack mount: John Leita
- Box of CPU fans: LeftOnRed AtAnyCorner (he always wins something!)
- 10 Base-T hub: won by unknown
- HP print server: won by unknown
(Meeting summary taken from Minutes taken by Chris Knadle, transmitted to Matt Surico on 14 November, 2002, and published on original LILUG website on 11 January 2004)
Msurico 20:54, 7 August 2006 (EDT)
Contributed Notes on Meeting From Others
- none