I had a thought, what about posting ideas for development that you wish to see happen, and then have 'micro' kickstarters for each piece, this way the community can pay for development, buy paying for features they would enjoy?
This is my own model for a game and development pipeline, I am on selling on steam and the blender market. Open source. On Mar 2, 2015 11:49 AM, "Johnny Matthews" <johnny.matth...@gmail.com> wrote: > :) yeah, just a passing thought. After all these years I'm surprised at the > rejection. > > Johnny (guitargeek) > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015, 1:27 PM Ton Roosendaal <t...@blender.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We have the Blender Development Fund, and of course our open movie > project. > > However, ten students is like a budget of 60k dollars - and that we can't > > whip up easily. > > > > The Development Fund does quite good though, there's room for several new > > projects this year. > > Didn't have time to work on that yet... will do soon. > > > > -Ton- > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org > > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute > > Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > > > > > > > On 2 Mar, 2015, at 20:22, Johnny Matthews wrote: > > > > > Has the blender foundation considered funding a similar project for > > itself? > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015, 1:05 PM Ton Roosendaal <t...@blender.org> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> Quite a surprise, we've been 10 years in the program with a good track > > >> record I thought. > > >> Will ask for the feedback. > > >> > > >> -Ton- > > >> > > >> -------------------------------------------------------- > > >> Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org > > >> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute > > >> Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Begin forwarded message: > > >> > > >>> From: no-re...@google-melange.appspotmail.com > > >>> Subject: [Blender Foundation] Your organization application has been > > >> rejected. > > >>> Date: 2 March, 2015 19:54:40 CET > > >>> To: t...@blender.org > > >>> > > >>> Thank you for submitting Blender Foundation's application to Google > > >> Summer of Code 2015. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept your > > >> organization's application at this time. Every year we receive many > more > > >> applications than we are able to accommodate, and we would encourage > > you to > > >> reapply for future instances of the program. > > >>> > > >>> If you would like some general feedback on why your organization was > > not > > >> accepted, please consider attending the IRC meeting in #gsoc on > > Freenode on > > >> Friday, 6 March, 2015 at 16:00 UTC. Please note that the feedback > > meeting > > >> will be limited to the first 50 organizations to queue up (queuing in > > the > > >> channel will begin at 15:30 UTC). You are also more than welcome to > just > > >> email the OSPO team at ospot...@gmail.com directly for email feedback > > >> about your application as well. > > >>> > > >>> Best regards, > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Bf-committers mailing list > > >> Bf-committers@blender.org > > >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
