Jason van Gumster

2391 points

Atlanta, GA

Jason van Gumster mostly makes stuff up. He writes, animates, and occasionally teaches, all using open source tools. He's run a small, independent animation studio, wrote Blender For Dummies and GIMP Bible, and continues to blurt out his experiences during a [sometimes] weekly podcast, the Open Source Creative Podcast. Adventures (and lies) at @monsterjavaguns.

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How open film project Cosmos Laundromat made Blender better

At the beginning of August—the 10th, to be exact—the Blender Institute released Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle, its seventh open project (and sixth open movie). Cosmos…

Eating our own dog food in open source

Last month, after nearly two decades of using free and open source software, I attended my first conference: SELF. I even gave a little talk there, a kind of high-level…

Project Goodeberry surprised sheep character

Cool new features coming to Blender 2.75

The release of Blender 2.75 is right around the corner. Granted, with a two[-ish]-month release cycle, that always seems to be the case. Of course, this particular release…

Be a responsible open source user

Too many of us who work with open source software in our daily lives think of ourselves as users, people who merely take advantage of open source tools without considering…

Authored Comments

Jason van Gumster

28 Jul 2017

Tilix brings powerful terminal emulation to Fedora

Very cool. I see a few features in here that parallel my own personal favorite terminal emulator, terminology. There are differences, of course (terminology exists in the Enlightenment ecosystem while Tilix has a focus on Gnome), but it's nice to see the flexibility I've come to expect being put to work in other term apps.

Jason van Gumster

20 Jul 2017

If you were on a desert island, which license would you take with you?

Out of curiosity, what is the specific issue that you take with the Creative Commons licenses? Is it all of the licenses, or one specific variety of CC license that you have a problem with?