Organization
The Blender Foundation (2002) is an independent public benefit organization with the purpose to provide a complete, free and open source 3D creation pipeline, managed by public projects on blender.org.
The Development Fund is the Blender Foundation’s main source of income. This is mostly spent through Blender Institute (working company of Blender Foundation) to support activities around Blender such as documentation, maintain and host blender.org services, organizing events (SIGGRAPH, GDC, etc), and bookkeeping and administration expenses.
Blender remains a true community effort. Work on Blender itself, new projects or roadmaps are all managed via open channels on blender.org. You can learn more about them and get involved.
Goals
Blender Foundation facilitates a public project on blender.org with the mission to get the world’s best 3D CG technology in the hands of artists as free/open source software.
The Foundation’s goals are:
- Manage the facilities on blender.org for users and developers who want to contribute to Blender.
- Maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU General Public License.
- Establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation’s goals and cover the foundation’s expenses.
- Provide individual artists and small teams with a complete, free and open source 3D creation pipeline
Support the Future of Blender
You can help keep Blender going with a one-time donation or by becoming a member of the Blender Development Fund.
Reports
Since 2020, the Blender Foundation has been providing extensive reports on activities and financials for the Blender project to maximize transparency
Contact
Blender Foundation
Stichting Blender Foundation
Buikslotermeerplein 161
1025 ET Amsterdam
the Netherlands
Board
Chairman: Ton Roosendaal
Secretary: Francesco Siddi
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Email: foundation (at) blender (dot) org
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