"Blender may be one of the most successful and best run Artistic/Media projects in Open Source." I would go one further and say one of the most successful and

"Blender may be one of the most successful and best run Artistic/Media projects in Open Source." I would go one further and say one of the most successful and best run projects in Open Source. I have always been impressed with the Blender developers ability to just plain deliver. Features get built quicker than you can keep up with them, and they seem to have had the best success integrating GSoC projects & developers into the code & team I've seen. I don't know what their secret sauce is (Ton's enthusiasm?) but I think many projects could learn a lot from them.