This list is and has always been a massive and interesting place for discussions and help when we we’re on Soft. Even tought we switched early to ramp up fast, I still enjoy to read this place everyday. Crazy talented and technical knowledge we got.. just having to search our mailbox for anwsers when we we’re hitting a wall. And peoples always there to help on a starting thread.
I understand both worlds in this discussion. But personnaly, and even more with the EOL of Soft, I am very interested in the sharing of where peoples are going to for the futur and their new ventures. Commercial or freeware softwares I dont really care. Lot’s of nice things have been done in Blender afaik. And its so easy to filter out what I want to read and search for in my mail application. Even delete threads I dont feel interesting to keep it optimized. Just like putting my headphones in the library and go get the books I want to read. sly Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://www.shedmtl.com/> <http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://www.shedmtl.com/>> > On May 14, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]> wrote: > > I side with Sven on the matter. > > People seem to have confused the concept of forum with mailing list. If you > want to discuss anything and everything, go to a forum as it's designed for > that sort of thing. people can view only what they desire to view and easily > ignore what they don't care about. Migration, plugins, tutorials for product > X, and whatever will surely be welcomed there. > > A mailing list is intended for narrow on-topic discussion and not much else > because any content submitted is distributed to the entire community intended > or not. Having a lot of non-topic discussion on a mailing list is synonymous > to being loud and rude in a library while people are trying to read and > study. While some tangents are OK to keep things interesting, let's try to > keep the balance in favor of on topic discussion. Lately the noise has been > higher than the signal. > > Softimage may be EOL, but some of us must continue using it for an indefinite > period of time. When trying to find solutions to problems in a timely manner > using the archives or direct help from the user base, we don't need our few > remaining channels of support clogged with noise causing a potential solution > to be missed in sea of false positives. > > > Matt > > > > > > Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 00:17:30 +0200 > From: "Sven Constable" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible? > > Then I'd like change "we"with "me" in my statement if you feel more > comfortable with it. I do respect you the same way as I respect the list. > This list is the most proficient source of information in a same way a > platform for professionals is meant to discuss even everything else. That?s > my point. This is the softimage mailing list. I read maya topics all the > time. 3Dsmax, for gods sake and will tolerate it. And Houdini? Well, it's > very welcome and Modo for sure. But discusing freeware? C'mon! > > Well the problem I had was not actually arguing with specific modeling in > Blender but the promotion of it in this list. I do not think this is the > right place to promote software. > > > > sven > > > > From: <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected] [ > <mailto:[email protected]> > mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Thivierge > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 11:19 PM > To: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible? > > > > Hey Sven, > > I'm not sure you have the right to police this list like that. I don't mind > if this kind of stuff is posted here. So when you use the word "we" I'm not > sure who you're speaking for but it certainly isn't the whole of this list. > > Anyone wanting to share new ways of working and tools should be able to. This > wasn't forbidden before the EOL for Softimage so it shouldn't be now. > Especially since the EOL. > > Eric T. > > On 5/14/2015 5:10 PM, Sven Constable wrote: > > Hey Chris, we have some problem if people want to promote their software in a > inappropriate way. ADSK did this this on the list. Newtek an SideFX did it as > well. It's alright. But please keep in mind, this is the softimage mailing > list. > > If I want to model with hobbyist software, controlled by hobbyists I will > choose Blender. If you want to promote a software for hobbyists, you should > use the appropiate forums. > > > > sven
