Blender Foundation

Introducing the new Blender Development Fund

Bart ·

The Blender Foundation has redesigned the Blender Development Fund, which aims to ensure a stable, dependable future for Blender by raising enough funds to hire full-time Blender developers. The new set up now has several ‘individual’ donation levels as well as several corporate sponsoring options.

From the announcement:

Allowing continuity is the primary goal of the Blender Development Fund. We have defined two funding milestones that will allow to achieve this goal.

  • 25K Euro/month: the main campaign target. With this budget the fund can support 5 full-timers, including a position for smaller projects.
  • 50K Euro/month: the stretch goal. While this might seem an ambitious goal, this was the monthly budget during the Code Quest. We supported 10 full-timers, including a position for docs/videos and a position for smaller projects.

If the stretch goal of 50K euro per month is reached, Blender development will effectively be at the level of the 2.8 Code Quest – PERMANENTLY. This would be an incredible boost for Blender’s future!

If you are already a supporter you’ll receive an email asking you to move your subscription to the new platform. Supporters will be awarded badges, similar to the ones introduced earlier this week.

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Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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