New service: Community News
I’m happy to announce a new service: BlenderNation Community News. BNCS automatically collects news from the most important Blender community sites, and displays it as a regular news blog.
I’m still testing the waters with this feature; better integration with the rest of the site will follow later. For now, you can access it through the menu at the top of your screen. Feedback is more than welcome of course!
If you’d like us to consider adding your website here, please check our criteria and contact us.
sweet!
Blendersome!!!
@ iluvblender
– I love that superlative “Blendersome”
@Chucker
– :-) Thank you
so how is this different from the regular news?
@anon: the regular news is checked, filtered and edited by our editors. Community News just flows in via RSS. We check the sites, but we don’t check each news item.
sounds good. way to go
Sweet, thanks for adding our channel, http://vimeo.com/blenderanim
no RSS feed yet?
@moley: It seems like there is but the don’t show up (at least) in Firefox. I had to look at the page’s source to get them:
RSS 2.0: http://www.blendernation.com/stream/feed/
RSS .92: http://www.blendernation.com/stream/feed/rss/
Atom 0.3: http://www.blendernation.com/stream/feed/atom/
@Bart: Are you aware of http://www.planetblender.org ?
It is exactly the same.
Bart, Blendernation is where i already go for news. Blenderartists and Planetblender to see what’s happening in the community. These are my central spheres of news about Blender and the wider community, and they probably always will be.
It is good now to see that there are other online communites, perhaps specialising where Artists and Planet can’t cope with the volume and differing styles and differing project stages that are coming through at such high standards now.
I’m interested in joining a community to contribute and I feel Planet and Artists are a little too high in volume and varied on topics for me to get the initial attention that I need.
C’mon the communities who can specialise in ‘beginner’, c’mon the communities that can specialise in ‘rendering for print/tv/cctv etc’, and communities for assisting people in the various large areas as demonstrated by the specialists selected for Durian/Sintel – modelling, texture, rigging, physics, animating, directing, storyboarding and so on.
At the moment all of these communities are coming through onto Blendernation without grabbing cohesiveness or stickiness to much account. A trusted central repositry from Blendernation would be a great resource that I could dive into when needed and probaby often.
I think it’s a good idea. I also think you are letting yourself in for a lot of flak as to who does and does not get listed. So I guess a basic outline of standards and minimums could be posted to set expectations for the community ‘leaders’ to get approved. If you need help with that, just ask.
Great idea.
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@@Bart :D
It’s the same, but I think BN has a lot more visibility than PB. Anyway it’s also the kind of “official” Blender portal so I think this place is better than PlanetBlender, even though having them on both it’s not a bad thing. Moreover on PB most of the time there are things that don’t deal with Blender at all, this is because rss there are not filtered properly (check yourself to get what I’m trying to say :) )
@Bart (the real one):
great job, thank you very much :)
Hi, It’s excellent to see sites with google and thanks for the share that you’ve given. Commonly, I’m really amazed, but etc.