Thursday, May 21, 2009
The Blender Foundation and The Blender Institute
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
The BLENDER FOUNDATION:
“The Blender Foundation is an independent organisation (a Dutch “stichting”), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals:
- To establish services for active users and developers of Blender
- To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license
- To establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation's goals and cover the foundation's expenses
- To give the worldwide Internet community access to 3D technology in general, with Blender as a core
The Blender Foundation has offices in the Amsterdam Blender Institute. Revenues from e-shop and publishing enable Ton Roosendaal and a small staff to work full-time on Blender, organize activities like for Siggraph or the Blender Conference, support development and documention projects, and pay for bookkeeping and administration expenses.” Learn more about the Foundation.
The BLENDER INSTITUTE:
“Because of the overwhelming success of the first open movie project, Ton Roosendaal, the Blender Foundation’s chairman, has established the “Blender Institute”. This now is the permanent office and studio to more efficiently organize the Blender Foundation goals, but especially to coordinate and facilitate Open Projects related to 3D movies, games or visual effects. An Open Project means that the end result will be published under an open license, free for everyone to re-distribute, re-use or publish.” Learn more about the Institute.
Watch “A new and updated tour through the Blender Institute studio in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hosted by the incredible Nathan “Cessen” Vegdahl. Filming and edit by Andy Goralczyk.”: