Hello!
11 years ago, I made a little video to introduce the Blender Institute,
A place that I was so incredibly proud of to have
Today we have another milestone and that is the Blender Institute is going to a bigger office
Bigger studio and a place where we are going to do amazing things
Come! Look at it. This is it
See? It's the whole building
Well, almost the whole building except for the top floor with our neighbors
But we have the whole ground floor and on the side the top floor, so we're here in
Amsterdam, but...
If you look there
At there before the black building is where the metro station is
Within two stops from Central Station you are here
Every two stops you go back
So this is almost city center
The Metro will start running in July
The entrance!
I got the keys, this morning
So I have to mark it
This will be
Our
Office!
Sliding doors!
Look at this space
What we are going to do
This area here will be a little reception
We are going to make a wall here
Up to...
Here
And this will be a meeting room
We need a place to hang out
In this area we'll make a wall as well
And this will be...
Training room
We are going to have much space,
for permanent training sessions.
And all of this is our canteen
Or meeting room
Or workshops
And where of course the Blender people, the community and users can hang out
We are going to organize activities for that
There is a little budget for reconstruction,
we are going to make walls there, probably a wall here
And a new kitchen over there
And it's gigantic! Look at it.
There used to be a social service organization here
where people would get their
Government money when they are unemployed
So these are the old meeting rooms
They are actually sounds proof
[Inaudible dialogue]
If you talk you can't hear anything
So this is where people were screaming about...
"Give me the money, I want money, I want more money from the government..."
And there is another one
Here...
So we don't know what to do with it. I think this is perfect for developers, right?
We can lock them up, and they can scream and do things... whatever they like
But this is all system stuff
We can take it away, unscrew it, remove walls, add walls, we do what we like
More space.. really good!
This is flexible working space
Really, weird stuff
No idea what to do with these
We are going to demolish it
Bathrooms!
Offices for producers and stuff
And we go up!
For everyone who has ever been at the old Blender Institute, look at this
We have real, actual bathrooms!
Fantastic! They look like official bathrooms.
And the top floor.
Really nice!
The art team, the Blender Cloud team,
Animators, artists can work here
Nice rooms in the back
Plus... the old kitchen
And this floor is
Where we will start with the Code Quest
So on Tuesday we move in
10 people here, to start working on the Code Quest
Downstairs we are going to fix things with walls
And then one month later, we all move in
This is the introduction; see you later!