A Possible Future for Blender Today LIVE
Imagine Blender Today LIVE as a 30-minute Q&A/feedback time enabled by the Blender Studio website. Pablo could put in less prep time while advertising the courses and training Blender Studio provides.
If questions were collected weekly on Blender Studio, the number of questions would be limited, bots would be largely weeded out by the paywall, and people with questions about Blender could submit them any time during the week rather than during or just before the live session. If Blender Studio courses were given capstone projects or prompts for future projects, and project submissions were allowed, feedback on choice pieces could be given.
Bits of progress on the Blender Studio Film could still be shared along with big changes in Blender, like the new Modifiers Menu or Bone Groups.
In this way, Pablo could wing the show, giving an overview of big developments while advertising the Blender Studio.
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the important part is that there is no paywall. Why should there a paywall to interact with the devs of an open source project making a free program? opening the questions only as long as the stream, and going through them after makes sure the people asking questions are present and engaged with the stream
it may have been sorta accidental, but the separate sites ensured there was just enough resistance to getting on the forum, that it reduced questions- usually to about 10 or 20 a week.
In any case, they ARE figuring out a new Q&A system anyway.
Could the paywall issue be addressed by answering the Blender Studio questions before transitioning to the open chat? I'm just trying to throw out some ideas that could allow Pablo to keep everyone up to date on a weekly basis without spending too much of his time.