By-Archit Jindal

The Blender Institute houses the offices of the Blender Foundation – as well as a production studio and render farm – in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Revenues from Blender’s e-shop and media publishing enable Ton Roosendaal and a small staff to work full-time on Blender, organize activities for SIGGRAPH or the Blender Conference, support development, documentation and training projects, maintain and host blender.org services, and pay for bookkeeping and administration expenses.

Blender is a true community effort. Maintenance, new projects and roadmaps are all defined via open channels

The Organization

The Blender Foundation is an independent non-profit public benefit corporation. Its purpose is to:

1. Establish services for active users and developers of Blender

2. Maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU General Public License

3. Establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation’s goals and cover the foundation’s expenses

4. Provide individual artists and small teams with a complete, free and open source 3D creation pipeline.

Goals

DEVELOPMENT

Blender is an open source project licensed under the GNU GPL. All code is written in C, C++ and Python.

Volunteers and professionals alike contribute to the official Blender release. This include developers, scripters, translators, designers and users testing the software and giving feedback.

The software

Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline— modelling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.

Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. To confirm specific compatibility, the list of supported platforms indicates those regularly tested by the development team.As a community-driven project under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the public is empowered to make small and large changes to the code base, which leads to new features, responsive bug fixes, and better usability. Blender has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: Blender is your own 3D software.

The Blender Foundation considers education and training projects crucial for a successful Open Source project.

Blender organisation is currently coordinating knowledge in this area, sharing experiences, and evaluating proposals for official (certified) training programs on the bf-education mailing list.

Education

Everyone interested in the topic is free to join.

The Blender Foundation is an independent public benefit corporation, to facilitate the open source Blender projects. Individuals or companies interested in supporting this financially can contact the foundation or visit the donations page.

We also run an e-shop where documentation and Blender goodies are sold. The profits from the shop are used to cover Foundation expenses and support Blender Institute projects.

Donations and Sponsors

Blender’s official documentation wiki is hosted on the Blender Wiki. If you’d like to help improve the documentation, just register for an account.

There is a guide on the wiki that walks through the process of editing and creating wiki pages. It’s highly recommended that you subscribe to the bf-docboard mailing list when making bigger changes, so that all of the contributors can avoid repeating work and get feedback.

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