Nathan Letwory

I was delighted to notice that the Blender Foundation put up the rest of the presentations from the 9th Annual Blender Conference this week. I personally think that the conference was not only of the hiqhest possible level presentation wise, but also had the most amazing atmosphere and fun bunch of people I've had the chance to meet in one place. I thoroughly recommend that anybody who's interested in Blender take part in next years 10th Annual Blender Conference.

Sunday's presentations included a presentation of Renderfarm.fi and BURP by me and Nathan Letwory. From our part I think we did a good job of representing the service and the technology to very knowledgeable audience. As stated in the presentation, the next big step in the evolution of the service will include setting up a confidential rendering service (important: we will not use any of your volunteer computing resources, but  will have dedicated resources available to us) that will be based on an almost identical open source architecture as the current service. With this we aim to keep Renderfarm.fi free forever and still maintain the possibility to develop the technology making up the service.

Finally, we're also still looking for one or two universities willing to parcitipate in a pilot that aims at providing lecturers education in both using Blender (priority number one, for obvious reasons) and Renderfarm.fi (priority number two) in full courses. This is a good opportunity for any university lecturers out there (almost regardless of where you come from) to get using Blender in your courses. That said, I hope you guys enjoy the presentation - any feedback and discussion is very much valued!