Ton's closing remarks were very touching, he was clearly emotional about planning his succession. I admire him greatly for all he has offered over the years.
Loved this conference, and love the Blender community! I’m really hoping to be able to actually go to BCon Amsterdam next year
If you have never gone, and feel even the slightest connection to Blender, it is really recommended.
It truly is a warm and welcoming community, that of course combines deep technical/programming skills with artistic magic. Fun!
Also, Amsterdam is just amazingly great.
I went back when I was about 16 I think, though it seems weird to write that now. Really lovely community and was great to put faces to names on the old forum.
I am a bit confused. Is the conference only 1 hour 38 minutes long?
Yes. Instead of the typical 30 minute live presentations over three days they decided to have users and developers send in 2 minute video submissions. The live conference is always a highlight for the community, and they didn't feel like an attempted online recreation would be as successful, so they kept things smaller. There is an additional video [1] that was live streamed before the "conference" video was made public.
Seems like it yes. There are very many people in the video though according to the timestamps in the description of the video, but each of them only have a very short amount of time. I’m currently at the very start of the video. Will be interesting to see what the people in the video are going to say in such short time.