Hi everyone,
I offer an open chat on Google Meet for people who like to get involved or are new to Blender development. The day / time is changing everytime, to give everyone a chance to join.
As Development coordinator, I help with docs, on-boarding, planning, communication, recruitment, project coordination and so on.
The open chat is for you when
you want to get involved with Blender development and have questions on how to get started…
you are new to Blender development and need help submitting a patch, finding a reviewer or a project to work on…
you are a contributor already and want to discuss something, have questions, concerns…
The open chat is not for you when
you are a Blender user and need help with the software or ask for a tutorial
you have a feature request or want to know when GPU rendering will work on your XY GPU
The next open chat is scheduled for:
Thursday, 29. February, 10:00-11:00 CET (Central European Time), (Your local time: 2024-02-29T09:00:00Z → 2024-02-29T10:00:00Z)
This is an open and public video chat and everyone is welcome to join. If you prefer to have a private 1:1 chat with me, please contact me via blender.chat and we can figure something out.
This is amazing! Love the initiative. Will make sure to at least drop by.
Small unimportant sugestion:you could use some tool so the timezone conversion is more comfortable, I think devtalk’s “Insert date / time” changes accordingly with timezones.
I’ll test it here: 2021-11-29T15:00:00Z(in my computer it says 12pm, if it doesn’t in yours, it might be working! it should say whatever your equivalent to 16hs CET is)
Otherwise, there’s always the option of using something like this.
Anyways, great to see this! Hopefully it can helps make blender more welcoming to new developers
Had a wonderful chat! Patiently answered all of my questions and made me feel super welcome! Would advise anyone interested in a more direct and human response to questions on how to get on the blender developement train to go to the next one!
The next open chat will be next week, on Tuesday. (Exact times in the first post). I will rotate the days and times a bit to give everyone a chance to join!
I was so lost with Blender code until I had a meeting with @ThomasDinges . He’s very kind, patient, and willing to answer beginner questions. I recently submitted my first patch to Blender and I couldn’t have done it without Thomas’ help. He also helped me afterwards via chat, going above and beyond. Blender is blessed to have you, Thomas! Thank you!
Oh I don’t have any questions at the moment, I just find Q+A sessions to be enlightening since many questions come up that I wouldn’t have thought to ask
Ah, just found out this happens more or less 4am local time, which is around the American continent time, quite early morning. Maybe pushing another meeting or the time to the evening in Europe will help onboard and get a large user base from this side of the world also.
@ThomasDinges thank you for hosting today. I lost internet half way through, unfortunately - had to talk to the phone company! Impeccable timing. But you clarified a lot of doubts I couldn’t find in the documentation - thanks again, love the initiative.
and made me feel super welcome! Would advise anyone interested in a more direct and human response to questions on how to get on the blender developement train to go to the next one! 