Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders

1) Upcoming 2.72 release

- Project overview page in wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects

- All the planned targets have been merged, BF team works full time on the 
tracker! Open issues went down to 155 last week, and over 100 new reports came 
in the last week.

- Ton Roosendaal suggests that Blender Foundation will provide free Blender 
Conference tickets for all active developers* again, if the open total gets 
below 100 for this release! Would that work? :)
(Active dev = three or more commits to Blender release during last 12 months).

- Cycles switches to CUDA Toolkit 6.5, enables basic Volume support on GPU too.
Everyone who builds Blender, please update the dev environment. for users no 
action is required.

2) Google summer of code

- All students have passed the final term. However, as mentioned on our GSoC 
student mailing list before, most of the students didn't finish their project 
yet. But we're positive that things can turn out to give a result when people 
would stay around. 

- Please keep being involved here, also users to inspire the students to wrap 
it up:
http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-2014-dev

- The Viewport project will get priority to become official release target with 
help from the core team.

3) Other projects

- Tamito Kajiyama: next steps for Freestyle & Blender NPR development have been 
discussed in the NPR list, feedback and inputs are very welcome! 
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-npr/2014-August/000071.html

- No news on OpenSubdiv, it will come back after the release... also awaiting 
OSD 3.0 release later this year.

- Gooseberry crew thinks of adding a studio-branch, to use in periods during 
which Blender's sources are locked for new features (BCon3-4-5). Meeting agrees 
that's OK, provided things (can) go straight to master after a release. Lukas 
Toenne will oversee and coordinate that.

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  [email protected]   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands



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