Blender Foundation

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.

Our vision is that everyone should be free to create 3D CG content, with free technical and creative production means and free access to markets.

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

Part of the industry

Blender Foundation is a recognized partner for many big corporations in the technical/creative industry. This not only via the membership of the Development Fund, but especially as official member of:

• The Khronos Group, Associate Member. Furthering open standards.
• The Open Invention Network. Non-aggression alliance for patents.
• The Linux Foundation. Supporting open source ecosystems.
• The Academy Software Foundation. Open source for the creative industry
• ASIFA Hollywood, the international animated film society – best known from the Annie Awards.

Blender Development Fund

The Development Fund is the Blender Foundation’s main source of donation income. Individual users and corporations can sign up here for a recurring donation – starting at 5 euro per month.

The Development Fund enables developers to work full-time on Blender, to support users and other developers and work on core development.

Corporate members of the Fund can indicate a preference which projects they like to see supported, provided these are generally agreed projects that benefit everyone and that fit in Blender’s mission and road map.

Blender Institute

Blender Institute formally acts as the working company of Blender Foundation.

To keep the Foundation lean and a safe place for Blender, almost all activities of the Foundation are being conducted by the Blender Institute. That includes office rent, daily administration, general management, HR services, online store, Blender Conference organization, participating in events, operational support for blender.org, managing Development Fund grants, software research projects, workshops, meetings, and so on.