The Blender Foundation has published the initial outline of the Blender Network project in a discussion document. With the Blender community and it's users maturing rapidly, there's a huge demand for professional services like training, coding support and 3d design. The Blender Network aims to provide a marketplace for these activities.
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Really good concept to give Blender a boost in the industry :)
I'm very excited about this idea.
Cool! And BF-backed!
This is such great news. Excited!! :D
i like the idea
This is a great idea! We already hired one Blender artist to work with us on some projects because we started implementing Blender as our MAIN 3D Tool for Animation and Modelling. This will allow us to find more Blender Artists for hire in the Future.
Lovely news , good times ahead :)
Excellent idea, really looking forward to this!
this is great! love to see the day that blender would be considered as professional as max and maya
Awesome move. I'll fully support this. Good times indeed. Way to go! ^_^
-Reyn
I wrote about this two days ago: http://jaydez-tech.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-blender-support-network.html (along with a cool graphic!)