I’m on Vacation!

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240383824_1a03e1514c.jpgAfter working on BlenderNation every single day for the last year and a half, it’s time for me to take a break. My personal live is quite busy at the moment: I bought a new house that I’ll need to work on, my own company is doing very well and last but not least, I’m going to be a father in October! :) Sometimes it’s just too hard to also spend 1-2 hours a day on running BlenderNation so I decided I could use a ‘vacation’ from running this website.

Don’t worry though! We have a great team and they’ll be running the show from now on. As the entire process of receiving news leads and approving posts was far too dependent on me, we’ve made a few organizational changes. Every editor now has publishing rights, the contact form is sent directly to the editors mail list and the team has full control over what will be published.

Of course we can still need more help. Becoming a regular editor is still by invitation only, but the best way to get yourself noticed is to regularly submit news in a ready-to-use format.

When I have some energy left, I’ll continue writing posts for BN. Otherwise, you should see me back around the 15th of July!

Have fun!

Bart

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    • http://www.youtube.com/Galileus Galileus

      You have fun, Bart! Enjoy your vacations!

    • http://blender.blog.siol.net/ PiPi

      Have a nice vacation time. You definitely deserve it!

      .::PiPi::.

    • http://www.candointeractive.com/art Mal Duffin

      Enjoy your holiday Bart! The BlenderNation news is an invaluable source of knowledge for me, and is something I check practically ever day, so many thanks for setting it up!

      Mal

    • Kram1032

      A very merry funny nice relaxing creativity-gaining beautiful joyful colourful happy …. ok, slowly, I run out of words… imagine 1000 more wishworth things :P
      holydayvacation :D

    • http://drumsofwar.110mb.com/ Felix_Kütt

      *copy-paste kram’s message* :D

    • Nebular

      Congratulations and have a good rest!

    • Cubedude04

      Have a great time Bart. This is the only blog i check everyday and post on. It’s always full of great news and tutorials.

      Have a great time and relax =D

    • claws

      And a well-deserved one too! have a nice time :)

    • Lasphere

      Enjoy your vacation !

    • http://www.feeblemind.org olivS

      Congratulations for your fatherhood, as it appears to look the most important to me and that nobody mentioned it yet in the comments ;)
      I have a little article pending that I sent you by e-mail: should I submit it again via the form or our valliant editors have been forwarded it?

    • http://www.feeblemind.org olivS

      BTW (sorry, forgot to mention it) if you want more submited articles, it would be fine if the contact form (http://www.blendernation.com/contact/) showed a wider/higher message area… It would be easier for your wanabe-editors ;)

    • Sanne

      Have a nice vacation, Bart, and thank you very much for your great work here at BlenderNation.

      Sanne

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @olivS: I’ve forwarded your article to the editors, it will be taken care of. And your suggestion about the text box is a good one; I’ll see if I can easily fix that, thanks.

      @Everyone else: thanks for the nice comments :) By the way, I’m not really going away, just taking a break from the BlenderNation work! I’m hoping to come back full of energy and new ideas..

    • http://thebigdavec.googlepages.com Dave

      Congrats on the baby and you’ll love being a father :D Have a nice holiday, Bart. Will my book be winging it’s way to me soon?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Dave, thanks! I’ll make sure the order for the book will be in before the Blender Foundation starts shipping them.

    • Alden

      See ya later, Bart! Thanks for all the great articles. I don’t know what I would do without your website.

      ;-)
      -Alden

    • Ankit Pruthi

      happy vacations Bart!!!
      a break from work is always good once in a while..

    • Enrico Cerica

      Well deserved vacations Bart and all the best

    • alessio

      have a good time. oh! …and congratulation!

    • http://yorik.orgfree.com Yorik

      Happy holidays Bart, and congratulations! If it is a boy, how about calling him Blender?

    • epat

      Have fun!
      @Yorik: That must just be about the most ridiculous idea I’ve heard all year lol!!
      -epat. :)

    • http://membres.lycos.fr/bobois/index_anglais.html IamInnocent

      I wish you all the best for all you projects and the release of your first born.
      Just remember that sleepless night, diapers, rashes and belly cramps (yours ans his/hers) are features not bugs. ;)

      Jean

    • johnj

      1. once upon a time… there was no BN; now it seems like the sun that always rises up and shines; but it’s not a right, it’s a gift, a present of every day; like life, and the sun; if we stay without you for 2 or 3 monthes may be that in july we remember how beautiful this present is.
      2. if you don’t relax for a while you become crazy, and BN may become too strange; so i hope you’ll have all you need to enjoy yourself and to love all the good things of the real world; a house and a child are very good meshes to model in the best way; i’m waiting for images…
      sorry for my english

    • mike joslin

      Always good to wake up to Blender news each day but all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

    • http://www.slazinski.pl kxs

      Yeah, enjoy your vacation. You deserve it. Thanks for running this great website :-)

    • http://www.letwory.net Nathan Letwory

      Enjoy your vacation, b@rt. Also, enjoy the time you and your wife are pregnant. Do lots of fun stuff and remember to surprise her on a regular basis. Every special moment now will be worth double after you become Father.

      /Nathan

    • http://Kitchenkidz.com Dipingo aka David Hickson

      Bart,
      Congrads dad! Best wishes to you and your new family.

      Dave

    • http://vgspectra.net SephirothTBM

      Have a nice vacations Bart, you deserve it. And Congrats for your soon baby

    • Sergeant Oreo

      Have a good vacation Bart!

      I check BlenderNation everyday and am glad
      that it will still run.

    • Aligorith

      Enjoy your well-earned vacation Bart! Also, congratulations on your fatherhood.

    • http://www.eofw.org Jarod

      Have nice holidays Bart!
      Thanks a lot

    • LUIS

      always my first site to view, all days.
      Have a nice time. You deserve it, man!

    • http://4chron.home.comcast.net JimC

      A house that needs work… and most importantly… a father! Congrats! You’ll soon be so busy that you’ll forget what Blender is! (but being a father will be your most important job)

      Best wishes Bart!

    • Dooku

      Congratulations :) BlenderN rules!

    • pictorali

      Gratz Bart, and thanks for all the work you have done making BlenderNation such an excellent resource.