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Blender Wins Packt Open Source Graphics Software Award

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Packt Publishing have announced that Blender has won the first prize in the 'Open Source Graphics Software' category. The prize is $2500! Thanks for voting! :)

From the press release:

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that Blender has won the inaugural Open Source Graphics Software Award category in the 2010 Open Source Awards. The Open Source Graphics Software Award is a new category introduced to the Award this year, featuring various different types of Graphic Application Software.

“I'm very proud of getting the confidence from voters and winning the 2010 Open Source Graphics Software Award! This awards the hard work of hundreds of people who are working on blender.org for software development, documentation and support, not to forget the enthusiastic artist community supporting the project.” said Ton Roosendaal, the creator of Blender. “With an exciting forthcoming year, we will invest the prize fund in to a dedicated server for a wiki, a better design for blender.org itself, and upgrading our back-end for software projects and bug tracking.”

“Blender's easy to use and install while there is plenty of documentation in various written/spoken languages. Additionally, the learning curve when compared to other professional animation-grade applications is not as steep, which allows Blender to be more user-friendly than its commercial counterparts” added Jacob Gube, Chief Editor of Six Revisions and one of the judges for the 2010 Open Source Graphics Software category. “Blender will change some of the opinions of Open Source being uncompetitive and being user-unfriendly.”

While Blender occupied the top spot in the 2010 Open Source Graphics Software category, popular raster graphics editor GIMP came in at the first runners up position, while the second runners up position was secured by Open source SVG graphics editor Inkscape.

With this announcement, the 2010 Open Source Awards has three more categories left, including the Open Source JavaScript Libraries category, from November 18th through to November 19th.

On Twitter, Ton Roosendaal also comments:

Hooray! Blender wins #packtpub Open Source award! Reward will go to documentation project(s). :)

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About the Author

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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.

28 Comments

  1. Great News!!!

    And the bugs go to documentation project(s). Thats great, by all the improvements in dev. we need a push in the documentations.

  2. Wow - great news :-)
    Congratulations to BF, the comunity that voted for Blender , and namely Ton, who manages this Software in a way that atracts so many many artist, coders, and fans.

    Maybe i should be surprised you won this Award, but actally I'm not. Blender surpassed GIMP, although GIMP is a Software for much more general purposes. Much more people have needs for a full-featured raster-image manipulation Software than for a full-featured 3d application.
    But Gimp IMHO fails in atracting new people. It fails in comunicating what's going on. It fails in releasing their new stuff in reasonable Time.
    Is there anything like a Gimp Conference? Try google. It seems that a kind of Gimpcon happened three times jet, the last has been 2004 (!!) as part of a larger graphic-related Conference.
    Try google for blender conference, you find links to the newest 2010 Conference immediately.

    Is there something like graphicAll.org for gimp? Nope. The Gimp guys just managed pretty recently (september 30, see http://www.chromecode.com/ ) to set up a server for nightly snapshots. What you can find there is souce-tarballs. No binaries.
    Just a few weeks ago the only way to get an up to date snapshot of Gimp was checkout from git.

    Ton does an amazing job in managing Blender. Thus we have a real active comunity. Its easy to feel "in touch" here. I've never got this feeling with GIMP.

    So, at last, sorry for GIMP-bashing. It wasn't my first intention, but it went that way by writing.
    :-/

  3. @ madturtle
    hopefully, we wont get all the "bugs" in the documentation, they only should get the bucks.
    Sorry, couldn't resist.

  4. Excellent news!
    And Ton will put that amount to good use.

    I think the main difference between Gimp and Blender is that Blender
    - has a central person to coordinate everything
    - and that person does his job very well

    If only Gimp's development was as active as Blender's...

  5. YES!
    Ym so happy about this price and for GIMP and Inskape too :-).
    If I were a developer I would have liked to help me because I used Gimp a lot and it is also a wonderful software.

    Big Up for all developers ! And thanks for all and Sorry for my bad English :D

  6. Hi,
    i'v thought gimp win. I love gimp, and i wish them more achievments.. And Blender i love too. Not such as early -2.5 is not good yet. But anyway you really great gays. Congrat's :)

  7. If the winner was choosen as a result of a voting process, doesn't it shows that Blender is the CG FOSS application with the highest amount of fanboys?

  8. Sounds great congrats Ton! -I guess you must feel awesome watching your brain child go all this way-, congrats to Blender and everyone involved. I'm sure we all will be rewarded with the results of this . doucmentation is a place where we -the eternal newbies ehehe- will be most rewarded.

  9. srujanraghavendra on

    I loved this news. Its very heartening to know that my favorite Blender is the most favoured opensource 3D software allover the world. hail Blender!!

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