Ton Roosendaal received an honorary doctorate in technology at the Leeds Metropolitan University yesterday. Here's a short first interview with him.
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Bart Veldhuizen
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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Hear, hear!! Well said! Blender is all of our "in-house software." Congrats!!
Maybe they should hire Andy as suit advisor.
Is there any other open source honor in this event?
A hearty congratulations to our great friend Ton, from the Aussie girls, Cathy & India! Well done!
Congrats to Ton. He really deserves it. I'm sure that the all community is happy for him.
Hear hear! Congrats Ton!
Te he....
Way to go Ton! :D You deserve it, and many other honorary degrees.
prost!
Ton, you talk the talk AND walk the walk.
Respect is due, nice one.
Ton:
Many people WANT to read what you wanna say. You should write many pages.
Very inspiring words, thanks!
Very nice words Dr. Ton.
I'm wondering whether there is a reason why he wears such a colourful dress.
excellent stuff.
love to see a bit of respect had.
Long time in the coming.
I think we have to refrain a little bit on the "Dr." title thing. I know the Dutch well enough to say that they think that titles are wayyyy old school. But hey, he does a really cool Dr. House impression LOL.
Congratulations Ton. Thank you again for your generosity. Blender really speaks for itself. It doesn't need a multi million euro marketing campaign for it to get noticed.
Congratulations Ton!
A much-deserved award for all devotion to the amazing project that is Blender, and an excellent job of "reprezenting" Open Source!
And if you wear that awesome hat to SIGGRAPH, watch out; I just may try to steal it! :) I look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
I really am a big fan of Ton's philosophy. congratulations, Ton. ^_^
-Reyn
next up, honorary doctorate in business and management!
never saw this coming, but it's well overdue
Congrats, Ton!
great guy!!
You´re awesome Ton! Long live Blender! and congrats man!
You're an insperation to us all! Congrats!
The whole place looks like Hogwart :)
And it's not Dr. House. It's Dr. In-House.
Ton: the creator of the best GUI ever, and the best 3d software.
Bravo! Well said Ton!
Congrats again man!!
Big Cheers and Congratulations for Ton!!!
You really deserve it!
THX to all the community and Devs!
Blender really is a kick-ass tool 4 multi purposes, I Love it :)
Party on!
What ? What Blender is that ?
I still wondering about the software ,not yet for better try but,,
to go for a learn to all that phyton programming now to the Open Software ,not so sure .
I may be better on do some interface code and interaction .
But so far ,none of the Phyton knowledge to start ,
what it backs to use and i keep on thought for do something about than only art .
You there still must to do it a better project ,
and dont forget about the software .
Its now looks i miss some part of the tv series,
i guess its just like to be like this anyway ,the marketing for the software .
To the community talk .
Iam Lucas da Costa Dantas and this was the newest post on Blender Community .
Thanks for watching .
Congratulations Ton and thank you for all the wonderful gifts you have given us.
Well done Ton !
Very cool, very appropriate, and absolutely well deserved
congratulazioni Ton!
it's cool that the robe os ORANGE just like blender's logo color scheme
Congrats Ton!
i see our Ton is still at the funny hat club, :P, Congrats for the recognition abroad and in the university world.
Well said. I will recommend your weblog