I hope nobody is too offended by my posting this here.

See the whole press release here:

ResPower Announces Unlimited Blender 3D Rendering on their 700 node render farm

I contacted Ton asking about banners/marketing at blender.org; he mentioned that there is a new marketing wing for the Blender Foundation - hopefully we can coordinate something there...

Also, we have some minor bugfixes/patches that our lead blender developer, Cory King, should be signing on to the dev list to get integrated back into the trunk.

Best Regards,
Early Ehlinger
President, ResPower, Inc.

earlye wrote:

I hope nobody is too offended by my posting this here. See the whole press release here: ResPower Announces Unlimited Blender 3D Rendering on their 700 node render farm I contacted Ton asking about banners/marketing at blender.org; he mentioned that there is a new marketing wing for the Blender Foundation - hopefully we can coordinate something there... Also, we have some minor bugfixes/patches that our lead blender developer, Cory King, should be signing on to the dev list to get integrated back into the trunk. Best Regards, Early Ehlinger President, ResPower, Inc.

I saw that and it seems good, better then most of the other ones I saw in terms of pricing. But I haven't tested it, so cannot comment on it.

Perhaps it could be a good thing to give a one month account to a member appointed by the Blender Foundation to make an independent review on the Renderfarm and then post it at the main website news area, that could be an option, but Ton has the call regarding this.
It would be good to have a review with some more renderfarms also.

I think this could be more acceptable by Ton in regards of the Blender Foundation and their commitment.
As Ton said to me once, The Blender Foundation favors no one, it tries to give the same support and coverage to all.

Also, glad to see you have a Developer working on Blender, that does make a difference.
And expect some Marketing decisions on this, the Marketing Team has been notified about this, so something might come to life soon.


-- Rui --
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rcas wrote:

Perhaps it could be a good thing to give a one month account to a member appointed by the Blender Foundation to make an independent review on the Renderfarm and then post it at the main website news area, that could be an option, but Ton has the call regarding this. It would be good to have a review with some more renderfarms also.

We would be happy to give a free month to whomever the Blender Foundation nominates. I'm not sure who to contact about this as Ton has made it pretty clear his plate is full, and the Blender site doesn't seem to have anybody else's address posted. Unless I'm blind and looking right past it.

rcas wrote:

As Ton said to me once, The Blender Foundation favors no one, it tries to give the same support and coverage to all.

I can certainly understand the need to remain render-farm "agnostic." We'd love to be able to sponsor blender.org with e.g., a banner that rotates with the orange banner.

rcas wrote:

Also, glad to see you have a Developer working on Blender, that does make a difference.

We've actually got 2 - Cory and myself. But I'm letting Cory take the lead on it since I've got the lead on 3dsmax, LightWave, Maya and Vue.

rcas wrote:

And expect some Marketing decisions on this, the Marketing Team has been notified about this, so something might come to life soon.

I hope to hear from them soon.

-- Early Ehlinger
President, ResPower, Inc.

Tons plate is full

I'll look into it for you when I have time (which won't be till after 2.41 this coming week - too much todo...). Ton probably will not do the rotating banner ad idea - he seemed pretty firm on that. The rest we shall see...

Tom Musgrove
LetterRip

You could offer the Orange team some time on the renderfarm.

I think they have already secured all the time they need, but maybe they could render certain sequences using your farm?

Mal

malCanDo wrote:

You could offer the Orange team some time on the renderfarm.

You're right - they've already secured tons of render time. A while back, when I first heard of Orange, we were thinking of pricing Blender the same way we price the other packages (per GHz*Hr as opposed to unlimited-per-month) and I sent an email to them offering to donate $10k worth of render time. They turned that down back then , so I doubt they'd be interested at this time... Of course, we're available if their current situation doesn't work out

LetterRip wrote:

Ton probably will not do the rotating banner ad idea - he seemed pretty firm on that. The rest we shall see...

I look forward to hearing from you.

It's a shame that Ton is so opposed to rotating banner ads. I can't believe that there aren't others that would love to sponsor blender.org but don't see a feasible way to do it right now.

-- Early Ehlinger, President, ResPower, Inc.

I haven't asked, but I suspect that a condition of the sponsorship they have for the rendering is that the usage be exclusive. If I were the sponsor I'd certainly request such, at least barring extraordinary circumstances.

LetterRip

LetterRip wrote:

I haven't asked, but I suspect that a condition of the sponsorship they have for the rendering is that the usage be exclusive. If I were the sponsor I'd certainly request such, at least barring extraordinary circumstances.

That makes quite a bit of sense, although I believe they've gotten use of some University's grid. Not sure why a University would want to be an exclusive rendering sponsor, but stranger things have happened.

-- Early Ehlinger
President, ResPower, Inc.

The announcment I read is that the sponsor is planning to do commercial renderfarm work - alas I can't find it now . (I think you are correct that it is associated with a University - my guess would be that they would reserve a certain percentage of time slices for University research and basically have the rendering sales cover their costs).

LetterRip